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June 29, 2003
Sunday Puzzle
There is a new secret message in the Links of the Day for today, and the first one to e-mail it to me gets to be declared super-smart. There are also bonus points for finding the secret message I put in the Links of the Day during the past week. Super-smart for last week: Scott Wright for being the first to e-mail me the secret message and Alan S. from Albuquerque for being the first to find the elegant solution to the puzzle. Everyone bow before their supersmartness! Here is the solution: Here are the headlines. LQRQG SGRDQS HTTBPBRDL LRA VHKXGA OHC KHQ R VRYHN BLLEG BK RDRIRVR XYFJHJCJZBK ZBA XVYXWVHQ XVJCWK FZQ KJWIW HY CYXWBPZIWB PJXXJWK WDYYNXTOUO ONJJIOUIR UD NSHCTXTCX VCHBTCYIXU UGCU AHICR VHTWIO AI PHDMIX The first headline was the easiest, but the problem some people had was that they set up the solution from the headline like this. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Then, when the person went to the second headline, there seemed to be no relation to the scrambled alphabet. But I had encoded the headlines in a way that was simplest to me, so the alphabet I used was letter to be encoded to encoded letter: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Then, when the other headlines are solved, a pattern is noticed, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ each alphabet being shifted from the one before. So how to know which alphabet to use for the hidden secret message? Scott Wright just brute forced all possible shifts against the different possible secret encoded messages until a pattern emerged which worked, but there was a way to determine the proper alphabet. If you notice the letters that encode for B, they are I, M, and A. Just line up the last alphabet to make IMAO. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ What's left is to find the hidden secret message. The only method was trial and error, and the message was the first letter of the last word of each sentence. OLFBTLSPNTMIAVPBTPYHWSMIL Be sure to drink your Ovaltine A crummy commerical! If you don't get the joke, I'm sure someone in the comments section can explain it to you. 3 Responses To "Sunday Puzzle"
In the comments for the contest, was THIS little exchange:
Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine. Posted by Kevin Aylward at June 23, 2003 09:42 AM Posted by Mike the Marine at June 23, 2003 10:14 AM Mike, get out of the bathroom and let your brother in. Posted by Bill H at June 23, 2003 10:27 AM Do Kevin, Bill, and I get an award for being able to stumble completely over the truth without realizing it? I sure could use some more toilet paper.... I thought about mentioning that. I thought maybe the joke was too obvious that I considered misspelling one of the words so someone wouldn't be able to stumble upon it. #2 - Posted by: Frank J. on June 29, 2003 02:50 PMPost a comment
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