I have continued to play with the image from the bottom of the game page, and come up with many different images, but the image i have posted seems to reveal what looks like the outline of letter or numbers. Im not too sure but if someone could help and blow up the images and repost them that would be great. Any help on a translation or anything would be nice...


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The little purple square on the latest message says:

abovetopsecret

Well, almost... I actually got: "abnvetnosecret"

Here's how:

The image is a 14x3 grid of colors. The first and third row are identical, each one pixel tall. In all rows, the red and blue channels are identical throughout the row, only the green channel varies:

Row1: Red=73 Blue=73
Row2: Red=7a Blue=7a
Row3: Red=73 Blue=73

The green channels in each row are:

Row1: 57 58 64 6a 5b 68 64 65 67 5b 59 66 5b 68
Row2: 5d 5e 6a 71 61 6f 6a 6b 6e 61 5f 6d 61 6f
Row3: 57 58 64 6a 5b 68 64 65 67 5b 59 66 5b 68

You can see that Row2 is always greater than Row1. Taking the difference, Row2 - Row1:

Delta: 06 06 06 07 06 07 06 06 07 06 06 07 06 07

Then, adding Row2 + Delta, and subtracting 2 for good measure (?):

Sum: 61 62 6e 76 65 74 6e 6f 73 65 63 72 65 74

Which in ASCII reads: "abnvetnosecret"

Now, can anyone figure out why, as in other ciphers, there are certain incorrect letters? Hmm...


[edit on 30-7-2008 by Ian McLean]

I actually just noticed that the grid is a little more complicated than 14x3, it's 14x5. Here's the revised table, in case there's more info in there. Rows 1 and 5 are identical, as are rows 2 and 4:

Row1: Red=73 Blue=73
Row2: Red=7c Blue=7c
Row3: Red=7a Blue=7a
Row4: Red=7c Blue=7c
Row5: Red=73 Blue=73

The green channels in each row are:

Row1: 57 58 64 6a 5b 68 64 65 67 5b 59 66 5b 68
Row2: 5e 5f 6c 73 62 71 6c 6d 70 62 60 6f 62 71
Row3: 5d 5e 6a 71 61 6f 6a 6b 6e 61 5f 6d 61 6f
Row4: 5e 5f 6c 73 62 71 6c 6d 70 62 60 6f 62 71
Row5: 57 58 64 6a 5b 68 64 65 67 5b 59 66 5b 68

WOW.....hell yeah Ian!! Even with your explanation I have no idea what you're talking about.

I hope it doesn't really start 'til the 8th. I need time work on my code/cipher/photoshopping/whatever skills. Either that or I'll just be watching you guys solve the game. hahahahahahaha

Hey guys, this is not a brag at all, I just got applauded for my participation in this thread. I don't know which post it's for or if it's just for trying???

Does it mean I was on the right track with some of my ideas?

What do the stars mean? Is it the same as an applause?

Great work guys
Kinda sucks with the time difference all the action seems to be going on while im sleeping ah well guess i had better stop doin that

One of the greatest reasons I like playing games on ATS.

Great job guys on the solving of these cryptograms. I am working 12 hour days so I will probably not be much help from this point on, but not to worry since there are some really sharp peeps here to count on.

Kudos to Ian for that explanation to his solution.

Now out of the first one I have helped with I get 2 missing letters to the sentence...

"Dxix bvqyskxi
Yihjswwat rpxrjvsgq,
Qwfpjvwgq nvxfb hivmxq,
Ysthfxjx qsfpjvgq
Bxfvkxi ysgyfpbvgw
Yinhjswizhd qjzjxtxgj."

Translated to what we belive is...

"Here discover
cryptogram questions,
solutions yield prizes,
complete solutions(?)
deliver concluding
cryptograph statement."

Missing letters from Cryptogram = Y O
Misplaced letters from Cryptogram = R A Q S O O Z

Anyone else make a list yet from the other puzzles? I will go through them later if not.