It's a code sequence. It helps to have a computer background to figure it out with relative ease, although I'm afraid if you haven't heard of that type of code before, you won't know what to look for, so in that sense it's a quite unfair puzzle. But that's why you can ask questions in here, right?
A hint I can give is that if you figure the solution out, you'll know you figured it out, because the solution does contain the word "password". The solution also is 16 characters long. That should tell you something about the amount of characters you need to decipher a character of the solution.
Also Spoiler:
it's a *very* common way to encode text
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It's a code sequence.
It helps to have a computer background to figure it out with relative ease, although I'm afraid if you haven't heard of that type of code before, you won't know what to look for, so in that sense it's a quite unfair puzzle. But that's why you can ask questions in here, right?
A hint I can give is that if you figure the solution out, you'll know you figured it out, because the solution does contain the word "password".
The solution also is 16 characters long. That should tell you something about the amount of characters you need to decipher a character of the solution.
Also [spoiler]it's a *very* common way to encode text[/spoiler].
I'm assuming that each pair of digits stand for a certain letter. I think 50 is P. 53 is S, and so on. But if I do that, it contradicts certain letters such as A, and there would be no "34". Plus what do the letters[the F and A] in the code sequence mean?
[spoiler]I'm assuming that each pair of digits stand for a certain letter. I think 50 is P. 53 is S, and so on. But if I do that, it contradicts certain letters such as A, and there would be no "34". Plus what do the letters[the F and A] in the code sequence mean?[/spoiler]
^You're on the right track, and the letters amongst the numbers should give you a hint that the used encoding doesn't use only numbers. Do you know of any very common text encoding method that uses letters and numbers in pairs?
[spoiler]^You're on the right track, and the letters amongst the numbers should give you a hint that the used encoding doesn't use only numbers. Do you know of any very common text encoding method that uses letters and numbers in pairs?[/spoiler]
alright, now that I've gotten in, I can say that this has been my favorite egg so far. HOWEVER: that's not to say that it was perfect. I stand by my previous statement about the hints because 3-1 was mildly cryptic. a better hint would've been "take this as literally as possible given the other hint".3-2 could've been a tad better by making it clearer that it had to be decoded. 3-3 was a simple brainbuster that had what it needed, though.
otherwise, a good set.
alright, now that I've gotten in, I can say that this has been my favorite egg so far. HOWEVER: that's not to say that it was perfect. I stand by my previous statement about the hints because 3-1 was [i]mildly[/i] cryptic. a better hint would've been "take this as literally as possible given the other hint".[ispoiler]3-2 could've been a tad better by making it clearer that it had to be decoded. 3-3 was a simple brainbuster that had what it needed, though.[/ispoiler]
otherwise, a good set.
It's a code sequence. It helps to have a computer background to figure it out with relative ease, although I'm afraid if you haven't heard of that type of code before, you won't know what to look for, so in that sense it's a quite unfair puzzle.
And you wonder why I hate the way this event was handled?
[quote="Guinea"]It's a code sequence.
It helps to have a computer background to figure it out with relative ease, although I'm afraid if you haven't heard of that type of code before, you won't know what to look for, so in that sense it's a quite unfair puzzle.[/quote]
And you wonder why I hate the way this event was handled?
And you wonder why I hate the way this event was handled?
No I don't wonder about the why, but the how.
[quote="[url=http://phpbb.mfgg.net/viewtopic.php?p=404976#p404976]Kritter[/url]"]And you wonder why I hate the way this event was handled?[/quote]
No I don't wonder about the why, but the how.
I don't exactly understand the complaints to the puzzles... they're not supposed to be easy. Not everyone gets the prizes. Heck, besides the first one, they've been too frustrating for me to solve so I didn't bother with them. But none of them are unsolvable and they're all puzzles anyone could solve if they put their mind to it.
I don't exactly understand the complaints to the puzzles... they're not supposed to be easy. Not everyone gets the prizes. Heck, besides the first one, they've been too frustrating for me to solve so I didn't bother with them. But none of them are unsolvable and they're all puzzles anyone could solve if they put their mind to it.
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