New Clue on the FTR web-site.

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Being in Japan, I deal with this quite a bit, looks like encoding, but I have tried all major types of encoding: Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Baltic, Arabic, Korean, Thai, Tukish, Western European, Vietnamese, and Hebrew. This is not Encoding, which is probably the only thing that this can be. Something must be up

I guess it could be encryption which would lead up back to the keys in the clues. But, does not look familiar to me.

[edit on 29-6-2004 by JCMinJapan]

Also, in the source:

meta name="clue" ?="-5-"

Any ideas?

what this looks like to me is when you change the setting on a typewriter the keys correspond to the symbols

for example you type "p" and it comes out as "@"

except that I don't have a keyboard / typewriter I can try this out on as I chucked my typewriter in the bin

so could someone out there please give this a go ?

Cheers

Looks like it is the HTML codes.

Here are the symbols in hex:

b4 ba bf ac ba b9 bf ca a4 a9 a5 b9 a5 bb b4 a9 c4 fb ca 8d c6 20 c3
a3 a2 a6 b0 a4 f6 a6 c4 c3 20 8d fb b4 ba ac c6 a9 fa c3
c9 d6 be b9 bf c2 f6 c9 ac a9 b4 c3 fb 20 fa b4 ba ac

I could be wrong but i used the character map for this and got these numbers

0180018601910172018601850191020201640169016501850165018701800169019602510202015701980195

016301620166017601640246016601960195015702510180018601720198016902500195

02010214019001850191019402460201017201690180019502510250018001860172




[edit on 6/29/2004 by Maveric]

, Okay the binary does not equal anything in the alphabet

but maybe it is more complicated than that, and we need to arrange the code a bit

ie 10110100, if you split it in half and re arrange it 01001101 it is then a M

major flaw, this pattern does not work for the next letter

you guys out there that actually understand this stuff, please put me out of my misery

If I am obviously barking up the wrong tree please let me know ,and soon !!!

Cheersgood luck all

Try holding down the ALT key and using your numerical keypad, in sequences of four. For example:

ALT + 1099 = K
ALT + 8256 = @
ALT + 9936 = ╨
ALT + 4002 = �
ALT + 4655 = /
ALT + 8877 = �
ALT + 3400 = H
ALT + 4856 = �
ALT + 2585 = ↓

Etc. etc. etc.


Mr. M

thanks starchild

but you have totally lost me

have you solved this ? sorry, I don't have the nous to follow what you are saying, do you mind explaining

Cheers

HH

Well... If you put the code into a website under the Western European Encoding, then change the coding to Simplified Chineese, and then translate that to English, you get:

"Foothill
donkey Lu Lulu donkey
Gansu leaks Lou Lulou the wealth
foothill to leak
gathers together ridge Low Lulong Low??
foothill
Lu?lou the coal
not to unite Lu Lv? Lu
Loulu ��not coal foothill Lu"

lol

Maybe it's a simple substitution cipher. I did a text analysis on the hex and I think a simple substitution cipher might be possible.

60 tokens - 26 different forms

b4 - 5
ba - 4
a9 - 4
ac - 4
c3 - 4
bf - 3
20 - 3
fb - 3
b9 - 3
ca - 2
c9 - 2
8d - 2
fa - 2
a5 - 2
a4 - 2
a6 - 2
c6 - 2
c4 - 2
f6 - 2
be - 1
bb - 1
a3 - 1
a2 - 1
c2 - 1
d6 - 1
b0 - 1

1. [meta name ="description" content="your description here."]


[edit on 30-6-2004 by AnonymousPoster4]

Originally posted by AnonymousPoster4
1. [meta name ="description" content="your description here."]

Sooooo...

meta name="clue"IS THE DESCRIPTION
CONTENT?="-5-"