It appears all the characters are made from a 5x5 grid, and there are 52 characters. Braille works on a 2x3 so that's out.

Any ideas?

Each little group of 5 dots represents a letter..... maybe...

oops wrong info. sorry my bad

[edit on 8-8-2008 by postmeme]

This one is making my eyes cross and my head ache

It appears to me to be 5 words, all seperated by the straight line of dots, the last three words are under the first two.

So It appears to be something like this to me with "l" being a space or word seperation. This is how many letters I also believe are in each word, represented by x's.
But here is what I'm looking at.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX l XXXXXXXXXXXX l
XXXXXXX l XXXXXXX l XXXXXXX l


So possibly 5 words, the first 15 letters, the second 12, the last 3 containing 7 letters each. I could be off on the numbers of letters in the 4th words, haveing a bit of trouble seperating the characters.

Also you can see common symbols, so we can hopefully try plugging in the more common letters there like R,S,T,E,L,N.

I'll also check again and see if there are any double symbols, which would most likely represent the letters, L, S, E, O, or any other common letters that can be used one after the other. for instance, the word wheel. Double ee's. ect.





[edit on 8-8-2008 by Nola213]

That letter is also present in every other word, including the first character in the last word.

I'm heading towards the double symbols being either an L or T with the last symbol in the first group being an S.

Originally posted by Cameoii
That letter is also present in every other word, including the first character in the last word.

Exactly!

So we are looking at a frequently used letter of the alphabet. Thinking back to the old days of Wheel of fortune (gameshow), what did they always pick at the end for the Final puzzle? R,S,T,L,N.... and E. Right? I believe those are the most common letters used in the English language, although, they were only able to pick one vowel, so This may not be correct, perhaps another vowel like A, or I, is more common than the letter L?

Too bad I not a proffessional codebreaker, heh.

[edit on 8-8-2008 by Nola213]

Great link, ketamine99....I was just googling letter statistics! Thanks!

I wish we could run these decrypto programs against our own dictionary. We could compile a dictionary using the tag system and probably get better results. The dictionaries used by the online sites probably aren't going to contain a lot of the words in these puzzles.

I tried to download the stand alone version of the one posted above but it won't run on my computer.

There is something that caught my eye. Towards the bottom of the page, below "Solution Rewards" is another image of 3 4x5 grids. Not sure if this is important, but it may be hinting at us to split this up into 4x5 grids rather than 5x5. The 5x5 layout in the puzzle might just be a way to trick us?

Who got that one? It's changed again ...