Post by Leveret on Jul 30, 2022 6:09:26 GMT -5
Partial Solution for the NORTH KEY Token
The NORTH KEY token was hidden in Norumbega Tower in Weston, MA.
The specific location was encoded in Silva's North key stone using the core Poly6 code discussed previously.
The keyword for the Poly6 square was found on the markings of the three "feeder" tokens in the North region. Taking these markings and de-transposing them resulted in A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, the keyword.
The symbols on the key stone were letters in different typography. The first Poly6 index was the letter number (e.g., A=1, B=2, etc.) or the difference between letter numbers (e.g., R->T = 18 -> 20 = 2). The second Poly6 index was represented by the capital/lowercase + regular/bold/italic in the order shown at the bottom of the art on the Silva page.
Decoding the Poly6 square in this way resulted in a string that alternated between numbers and letters. The decoded sequence was:
44R68EIOA6D2-22L9EI3TITI5E43R24SI9.I8
The numbers in that sequence were:
44 68 10 6 2 22 9 13 1 15 43 24 19 18
and the letters/symbols in that sequence were:
READ-LETTERS.
Using the numbers as a book code with A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM as the book source (with the Project Gutenberg file and method described on the Resources page) resulted in the final message:
NORUMBEGA TOWER
The NORTH KEY token was hidden in Norumbega Tower in Weston, MA.
The specific location was encoded in Silva's North key stone using the core Poly6 code discussed previously.
The keyword for the Poly6 square was found on the markings of the three "feeder" tokens in the North region. Taking these markings and de-transposing them resulted in A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, the keyword.
The symbols on the key stone were letters in different typography. The first Poly6 index was the letter number (e.g., A=1, B=2, etc.) or the difference between letter numbers (e.g., R->T = 18 -> 20 = 2). The second Poly6 index was represented by the capital/lowercase + regular/bold/italic in the order shown at the bottom of the art on the Silva page.
Decoding the Poly6 square in this way resulted in a string that alternated between numbers and letters. The decoded sequence was:
44R68EIOA6D2-22L9EI3TITI5E43R24SI9.I8
The numbers in that sequence were:
44 68 10 6 2 22 9 13 1 15 43 24 19 18
and the letters/symbols in that sequence were:
READ-LETTERS.
Using the numbers as a book code with A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM as the book source (with the Project Gutenberg file and method described on the Resources page) resulted in the final message:
NORUMBEGA TOWER