I think we should drop the double letters.

just an idea. it could be just be a snag for the real puzzle questions

just an idea


reversed- deleted one of each double letters

RBALJ JQLVDKGJ CIARFQA HEFGON WNKBVF HAIQGEJR

[edit on 9-8-2008 by ragster]

OK, a wild idea perhaps but what if we attempt to caesar shift the 'spaces' as well?

I tried adding the indices together and got this: AMD7K&

I was thinking AMD-7K

I entered that and it didn't work lol

wow after a whole night sleep i expected to wake up and find you all on puzzle 7 by now

This one must be hard. Ill give it some more thought soon. Good work so far

Good morning everyone

Never made it back yesterday, so I'm pleased to see I only missed one solution. I will get these up on the wiki today, I promise.

All I've done so far with this one is convert the green channel values into letters, and Ian posted the same results I got with much more flair than I possibly could.

I'm banking on the zero values (the bright magenta bars, which have no green in them at all) as spaces.

For those who are discouraged because they don't have fancy graphics programs, don't give up. They really aren't needed. Nothing we've had so far has required any actual image manipulation. If you happen to use a Mac, there's a handy little tool called DigitalColor Meter which can tell you how much red, green, and blue are mixed to make up the color on your monitor wherever you put your cursor. There's probably something similar in the Windows world, though I don't know what it's called.

Do you think the horizontal stripes have anything to do with it?

[edit on 9-8-2008 by Deaf Alien]

I count 18 horizontal strips. I don't know if that will help

I have no idea if I am even on the right track but here's what I have anyhow.


_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 15 4 9 3 8 7 5 9 1 7 6 16 2


I figure maybe 2= I or A
and 8 =L or S

Well maybe this will be helpful who knows

Looking back at Ian McLean's solution to the similar practice problem, I think we may have to look at the different horizontal rows. I'm going to start in on that angle, trying to figure out which row might be the crucial one (eg, in the earlier puzzle, rows 2&4 were where the code was).

The other thing I'm wondering about is, what if the shift changes for each letter? So, for example, you would shift the first letter by one, the second letter by 2, the third letter by 3 ... (or by 5, then 6, then 7 ...; or by 2 then 4 then 6 ...)

wow, this is some tricky stuff.
all of these ideas you guys are comin up with.......makes my head hurt.

hope someone has a breakthrough, this one is a pain. Should bust out the National Treasure theme, might inspire some of you.