Puzzle Solvers Appreciation Thread

ladron121 · Post by **ladron121** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:48 am

HA! Good job Dia!

I think you and I both thought of the XX/Xy right after they described the drop. Its a good thing you are good with codes, cause I suck

diastres · Post by **diastres** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:01 am

ladron121 wrote:HA! Good job Dia!

I think you and I both thought of the XX/Xy right after they described the drop. Its a good thing you are good with codes, cause I suck

Aww. But you've got the hat!

Anyway, it wasn't just me. It was acidfingers and surrealisticpill as well.

I'll get the nice post up probably around 1am EST. I get into the airport around midnight. It might be different if there's free internet at the connecting airport. But I have an exam in an hour so... I need to dash!

ladron121 · Post by **ladron121** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:06 am

diastres wrote:But I have an exam in an hour so... I need to dash!

Good luck!

THE HAT BESTOWS HIS BLESSING ON YOU!

Talezine · Post by **Talezine** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:14 am

deagol:

When I noticed that care in the 5 second clip...I immediately thought of Gemma as well. However: That clip was posted August 6, 2006 where as Gemma did not start posting until October.

One more thing...watch that video CLOSELY. At the very end, pause it, and go back ONE frame. Look in passenger seat window, drivers side. There is a face. I can't tell if it is reflectin (of the video'er) or of the passenger. But there is a face!

FREAKY

tigerlilylynn · Post by **tigerlilylynn** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:19 am

deagol wrote:
sparkyb wrote:Damn you. I was up all night thinking about this, composing this post and writing my specialized brute force solver. Had I know the info that there were no spaces and 2 capitals that cuts my 21 letter combinations down to just 5 for a total of 544,320 possible passwords. That would probably be crackable in under 6 hours. If I added a restriction that the first letter must be capitalize (seems likely), the 2nd letter isn't (I'm assuming 2 words), and the last isn't (I'm assuming the cap is the beginning of a more than 1 letter word) that would cut it down to just 20 minutes. But then I saw that you'd already figured it out. I can't wait to know how. Also, how did you get confirmation of the adding technique and find out that it had 2 caps and no space?
Can you believe that? You know about my puzzle/email from warpylol to Op, and that SupressGemma solution... dang was I channeling Tach or what!

Of course, WarPylol is a member of the YT group ipod opera - a hint? (anagrams to Opertion Aphid). Also, that account was in the latest correspondence list she left us in the last drop. We just didn't know the right capitalization.

That's one of the two accounts of that group that has a public video (the other is jimmyjm):
Title: Add Poe Hinder Vilification[/url] (anagrams to D in Aphid location verified)
Description: Erin is in ire. (palindrome sugesting Ireland)
Tags: PAID HIND (D in Aphid)
It's just a one second clip of a street scene with a car (license plate [N2 6941] or [NZ 6941]) and an apartment building, thought to be in europe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_f7o4RK3oE

Is Tachyon implying that WarPylol is Gemma, or related to her?

Do we have the decoder ring ready? So far I have this:
Code: Select all
:04 Cx
:08 6t
:12 4v
:16 Fo
:20 Bu
:24 2z
:28 8w
:32 3p
:36 5m
:40 Dr
:44 7n
:48 Ay
:52 9q
:56 1s
:60 El
The second ring is incomplete, with tentative times (hour:minutes for verification)
Code: Select all
:06 2x (1:06)
:10 Do (1:10)
:18 8m (1:18)
:20 1z (1:20)
:22 As (1:22)
:34 Ft (0:34)
:38 4v (0:38)
:46 9q (0:46)
:48 3l (0:48)
:56 Bw (0:56)
5
6
7
C
E
I want some language.lessons!

FallingIntoSin · Post by **FallingIntoSin** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:51 am

Congrats Dia and Acid!
You guys ROCk, thank you so much for staying up all night and working on this puzzle. I really, really, appreciate it. Both of you are some of the most intelligent people I know! *HUGS*

MaxZyrix · Post by **MaxZyrix** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:03 pm

I wish to congrat you guys too. I'm looking forward to a more expanded post about how you guys got the pw. Also I absolutely don't understand how or why tiger posted that pic. I'll be more receptive of info later today. I'm just still too mind numbed thanx to LoveLine

tigerlilylynn · Post by **tigerlilylynn** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:33 pm

MaxZyrix wrote:I wish to congrat you guys too. I'm looking forward to a more expanded post about how you guys got the pw. Also I absolutely don't understand how or why tiger posted that pic. I'll be more receptive of info later today. I'm just still too mind numbed thanx to LoveLine

"Do we have the decoder ring ready? So far I have this: "

That's the fist ring

missviolet · Post by **missviolet** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:08 pm

Wow -- way to go, guys!

I feel smarter just lurking here with y'all. Seriously.

iamcool · Post by **iamcool** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:10 pm

theres like 30020342 puzzles to solve at once, i dont even see where you get the clues from in the 1st place...