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Post by Fire Dragon π on Jun 9, 2024 19:24:29 GMT -5
Congratulations ππ blahpsh
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Post by retro on Jun 9, 2024 19:36:08 GMT -5
Yes the winner by just 52 minutes was blahpsh, winning the $100 prize for first solve. Working alone she was just quick enough to get the right w3w location beating Team Shadowgate narrowly. Today was the first day, regardless of language used on w3w, that the right square was submitted. I will post a full explanation of the puzzle on retro13.com tonight or tomorrow. Thank you all for playing the puzzle game. I'll try to have another one ready soon. |
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Post by mofinn on Jun 9, 2024 19:36:13 GMT -5
Well Done to blahpsh for the win!
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Post by ig0psycho on Jun 9, 2024 21:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by jigsaw on Jun 9, 2024 21:16:44 GMT -5
Congratulations Blahpsh!
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Post by stercox on Jun 9, 2024 21:17:53 GMT -5
CONGRATS!! WTG!!!
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Post by kmort on Jun 9, 2024 23:50:18 GMT -5
Congrats blahpsh!
W3W can be pretty entertaining. My favorite find was under ///goad.counter.typified. Using one word from the different languages you would get:
Korean - μ¨κΈ°κ² λ€ - I will hide it
Turkish - bulabiliriz - We can find it
Zulu - wayezosibuka - He would watch us
also Zulu - kwanqotshwa - Was defeated
I also found an interesting trout connection. The cutthroat trout was named after William Clark, Oncorhynchus clarkii
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Post by blahpsh on Jun 10, 2024 7:50:48 GMT -5
Congrats blahpsh! W3W can be pretty entertaining. My favorite find was under ///goad.counter.typified. Using one word from the different languages you would get: Korean - μ¨κΈ°κ² λ€ - I will hide it Turkish - bulabiliriz - We can find it Zulu - wayezosibuka - He would watch us also Zulu - kwanqotshwa - Was defeated I also found an interesting trout connection. The cutthroat trout was named after William Clark, Oncorhynchus clarkii Thank you everyone! I noticed the cutthroat trout as well. And for a few weeks, I got lost on overlapping the circles in the ciphertext over the original poem. ATSOUCKHPTRTEAN are the letters I pulled. I never got much from anagramming but I did get CUTTHROAT and went down that path for awhile. |
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Post by kmort on Jun 10, 2024 9:36:14 GMT -5
Congrats blahpsh! W3W can be pretty entertaining. My favorite find was under ///goad.counter.typified. Using one word from the different languages you would get: Korean - μ¨κΈ°κ² λ€ - I will hide it Turkish - bulabiliriz - We can find it Zulu - wayezosibuka - He would watch us also Zulu - kwanqotshwa - Was defeated I also found an interesting trout connection. The cutthroat trout was named after William Clark, Oncorhynchus clarkii Thank you everyone! I noticed the cutthroat trout as well. And for a few weeks, I got lost on overlapping the circles in the ciphertext over the original poem. ATSOUCKHPTRTEAN are the letters I pulled. I never got much from anagramming but I did get CUTTHROAT and went down that path for awhile. Quite a coincidence! I did something with answering each line of the deciphered poem and using the first, second, and third word and got CCT - Coastal Cutthroat Trout. The coincidences in puzzles are always so interesting. |
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Post by retro on Jun 10, 2024 13:46:30 GMT -5
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Post by pb123 on Jun 10, 2024 20:29:27 GMT -5
Hmm, I think I didn't get there because I was looking for:
///lateral.logic.reeling
Just a thought: If one considers pure logic to be the center of a series of concentric circles, which become more detached and abstract the further you go out, it has to be difficult to find the correct circle to find the Goldilocks one that makes everything work smoothly.
@retro
Looking forward to the next one you will dream up.
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Post by krelborn on Jun 26, 2024 18:30:48 GMT -5
Hi. I recently joined the forum and discord after participating in a local treasure hunt. I am very excited to find such a large community and so many hunts. I have a few questions for all of the forum members about the Translator hunt, which I want to use to start learning more about the tools available for this hobby. 1) What Three Words - was the need to use this website located in a clue, or is it just common knowledge to try this? 2) In the Solution, it says the key undetected is Mueles confirmed to match the first time lines. Was there a clue to use the first letter of each subsequent word in each line to get Mueles, or is it just something found with experience. What does confirmed to match the first time lines mean? 3) I found Playfair Ciphers on dCode but not sure how to use Mueles in the 5x5 grid. Any help? 4) Are there any suggestions on how to gain experience in solving these puzzles? Websites with problems to solve or something similar? Thank you for any and all help. I look forward to being an active member of these hunts. Have a great day! |
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Post by forestblight on Jun 27, 2024 7:45:23 GMT -5
Jenny Kile's book "Introduction to Codes and Ciphers" (2019) is a great introductory resource, written by someone who has been part of the armchair treasure hunt community for many years.
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Post by ILLUMINATINPS on Jun 27, 2024 12:16:58 GMT -5
Hi. I recently joined the forum and discord after participating in a local treasure hunt. I am very excited to find such a large community and so many hunts. I have a few questions for all of the forum members about the Translator hunt, which I want to use to start learning more about the tools available for this hobby. 1) What Three Words - was the need to use this website located in a clue, or is it just common knowledge to try this? 2) In the Solution, it says the key undetected is Mueles confirmed to match the first time lines. Was there a clue to use the first letter of each subsequent word in each line to get Mueles, or is it just something found with experience. What does confirmed to match the first time lines mean? 3) I found Playfair Ciphers on dCode but not sure how to use Mueles in the 5x5 grid. Any help? 4) Are there any suggestions on how to gain experience in solving these puzzles? Websites with problems to solve or something similar? Thank you for any and all help. I look forward to being an active member of these hunts. Have a great day! My advice, along with what forestblight said, is to research cipher types with the various published books available. I would add to try an understand how the ciphers work on pencil and paper without even touching a decoder. By doing so, you will be able to identify cipher types quicker and also pre-visualize potential solution. You'll become a stronger code breaker that way instead of being a dime a dozen Dcode junkie that's just spamming brute force techniques on decoder sites. You will also enjoy the process and puzzle more. So yeah, write out an entire vignere. Hand populate a Playfair and understand the ruleset. Make a 5x5, or even 7x7 Polybius and populate it and create messages. It only makes you stronger by understanding the actual mechanics of a cipher type. Decoders won't show you that. |
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Post by forestblight on Jun 27, 2024 12:35:57 GMT -5
Yep to that. Also, study solved armchair treasure hunts! Three ways to do this: Try to solve them yourself first, then find out how they were intended to be solved, and then how they were *actually* solved. Often, even the process of finding out how old hunts were solved takes time, patience, and research skills that will serve you well on hunts like this.
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