Ok let's start over..... what is it that we all are missing?

It said focus on the colors, right? the middle ones?

can we like use 16 as in pixels for moving the graph over 16 pixels, or such as in every 16 pixels rearrange the graph, it goes along with analyzing the colors, and also with past hints on how to figure it out.

I took the current image and squished it, you guys should check it out, it seems like the current image is way to spread out, height wise, needs to be crushed again, when crushed the color values change because of the gray lines across the image..

The current puzzle (#4) has been updated with the intent of helping to keep the game play moving in the correct direction.

I am laughing my butt off

thanks ATS!

but its funny

lets get crackin boys!




gotta love them double ciphers

forwards
SKEGRJAIH FWBLOX OPGFEH ARFSAJC HDJARWYYH HWXJZ

Reverse
ZJXWH HYYWRAJDH CJASFRA HEFGPO XOLBWF HIAJRGEKS






A double cipher

Transposition cipher
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In classical cryptography, a transposition cipher changes one character from the plaintext to another (to decrypt the reverse is done). That is, the order of the characters is changed. Mathematically a bijective function is used on the characters' positions to encrypt and an inverse function to decrypt.

I am thinking we need to decipher these in stages, it is not laid out in any certain type of rail cipher or whatnot, unless double cipher means, the colors were a cipher and now the letters are.... ok i feel stupid now..

SKEGRJAIH = 9

FWBLOX =6

OPGFEH = 6

ARFSAJC = 7

HDJARWYYH = 9

HWXJZ = 5


[edit on 11-8-2008 by ragster]

[edit on 11-8-2008 by ragster]

Lol... well, at least I feel like I was getting closer:

SKEGRJAIH FWBLOX OPGFEH ARFSAJC HDJARWYYH HWXJZ (actual)
SLEGSJAIH FXBMPX PQGFEH ASFSAJC LGMDXNSSL LNABS (mine, 5min ago)

Yeah, yeah, I know, horseshoes and hand-grenades... I'm going to have to reverse-figure out how that was encoded, after looking at the cryptogram, in order to get some peace of mind...

I thought the last two letters of the first word were a repeat? Same color.

do you think we lose out on the book prize now hahaha lol


ok yea

I am still stuck in a stump

I cant decipher this..

Originally posted by Deaf Alien
I thought the last two letters of the first word were a repeat? Same color.

They are, I was playing around with row #9, where they're not.

Originally posted by Ian McLean
Lol... well, at least I feel like I was getting closer:

SKEGRJAIH FWBLOX OPGFEH ARFSAJC HDJARWYYH HWXJZ (actual)
SLEGSJAIH FXBMPX PQGFEH ASFSAJC LGMDXNSSL LNABS (mine, 5min ago)

Yeah, yeah, I know, horseshoes and hand-grenades... I'm going to have to reverse-figure out how that was encoded, after looking at the cryptogram, in order to get some peace of mind...

I also managed to get something similar to the actual answer a few days ago...

Mine was:

SJEGRIAHH FWBKOX OPGFEH ARASAIC JGKDWLRRJ JLABS

Which brings up the question:

How did you manage to get 2 different letters for the end of the first word in your answer?

Barbadel

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ok i am just playing with words in the decipher stage


here are the randoms

panoply
sarod
snowfalls
sandy
harmon
hacker
eights
induct
hamper
camper
entry
setup
curls
demos
upland
evicts

I found out sandy harmon is a street basically in the middle of the USA

A panoply is a complete suit of armour



[edit on 11-8-2008 by ragster]

The first four words of the 'first solution' are simply the sum of the green-channel values in rows 47+57 (rows 57+67, in the original uncropped image), converted to ASCII.

The last two words, however, are totally different!

Well, I am not so great at this cryptography stuff nor at photo editing but I do know how to have fun in paint. While "having fun" and using the bucket tool I found that various lines had color anomalies within them (ie one square or so was a different color). I saw Deaf Alien's picture on page 3 or 4 of this thread and decided to go ahead and alter it so only the lines showing those color anomalies were showing. My first thoughts are that the anomalies need to be taken out of the lines themselves (which I didn't do as I'm not sure which ones are the line's colors and which are the anomalies so I left that up to you guys to play around with. Aftr removing the lines, you get some random dots placed here and there, which my first thought was braile, but there are too many locations for that. Maybe you guys can make something of this. I just figured it was a different way to look at it. Hope it helps.