@GarethMcCaughan (and ping @LukasRotter). I notice that each "layer" of the box model characters have a different seemingly "noise" character: margin=", border=!, padding=#, content=)... I tried caesar shifting those down to spaces (i.e. different shift per layer), but it still produces gibberish...
@Alconja Either I made a horrendous mistake, will live forever in shame, will delete my account and will live in the desert for the rest of my life, or you didn't read Hint #1. Although I don't think the hint is necessary if you notice a certain thing about the shift of each sector :P
@LukasRotter likely got the right shift then, since from memory each shift was equivalent of that section's css value (-ve). Not at my computer note, so can't re-look at the result, though it was certainly still gibberish-esque... (which belies the issue with multi-step ciphers... You have no way of validating the first step, so you don't know if you're completely wasting your time on the second)
Though maybe I still made an error, since iirc the content region ended up with a few non printable ascii codes...
@Alconja ah, separate shifts for separate regions; makes some sense but personally I wouldn't call anything that involves shifting different bits of the ciphertext by different amounts "the most basic" even when the different bits are clearly indicated.
@GarethMcCaughan Well, I meant the most basic "method" (i.e. a simple shifts on letters in a given charset), but I get that this term is ambiguous. I.e. I would call a caesarian shift and a vigenere cipher the same "method" of encryption for each letter, but I guess I misuse the word. :P
anyway, looks like Alconja will be posting a solution in 18 hours or thereabouts. (It's sooo tempting to get in there first but I am a Nice Person and will not.)
Most of my friends are black.
I am someones strength while someone is my strength and we all are dependent on each other.
I have a tail. Sometimes long sometimes short.
I have two teeth.
I am a spinach for rich and for poor.
Things might stop if I do not exist.
Some of us glow i...
Five industrial tin packing machines are packing tuna fish in tins. One of them is packaging a little lesser than the others. Lets say the difference of weight is 5 grams if all others are packing 10 grams of tuna fish in tin packs. None of the tins are labelled from which machine they come. You ...
Ummm... I think I tried just transposing the first few lines as if it was dancing men again? Rest I thought was space as soon as you told me the narrow gaps weren't important. I went looking for something that looked like Azerty but couldn't find it, but did see the repeated "see me as" which is an unusual repeated phrase. The I and i being different threw me a bit, but the rest worked so well I decided maybe there were two encodings for each letter, for extra difficulty.
I ended up switching them all to lowercase, which I maybe shouldn't have, because I was translating non solved letters as 1-9A-Z,and got up to D at one point
:32832152 Probably not. But if I get some generalisation or something stronger, I might answer. Or maybe not. (Edit: the post to which this was a reply has been now removed.)
@ArbitraryKangaroo If you'd listen to me, I'd say you should rethink your decision. You are clearly underestimating yourself.
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@Ankoganit: I don't know, but I have send the request to delete my account, and how much I herd thing has really gotten over my head an I can't get rid of it. But obviously, there are excellent puzzle crafters here, so for next times to come, my source of fun is probably solve puzzles of here and other places without screaming and posting it online. And, you're underestimating my stupidity, really. When I mean really, I am sure of it.
As an example (I'm posting it because all this crap will get deleted soon), in the flag puzzle, there are many nice genaralization (Prime flags, n flags, sufaces of sphere/elipsoid/tetrahedron/cube etc), and a nice question that isn't a 120 degree rotational symmetric solution possible ? But, I didn't spend my time on that, and ... just move on.
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But well, I used to think and discover new stuff in math before spending much of my time on PSE. And that experience, was really good, (but my way, was surely unique), but hampered by my all time brain fog.
@ArbitraryKangaroo You at least thought of them. I didn't.
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I thought to thought, and didn't thought. But I should thought on these problems, because obvously they aren't crap and some nice generalization with the curvature of surface + number offlags should come up, but I don't. And if this act isn't stupid, then nothing is.
@ArbitraryKangaroo If you think PSE is decreasing your productivity, you can simply try limiting your activity for some time (there are chrome apps for that).
@Ankoganit: Hairlless persons neednot worry about hair lose stuff. I don't do any productive stuff anytime, so it is not decreased at least :). I'm never leaving PSE, I'm just stop doing these things publicly, and spend time on what puzzles that interest me, not just thoughtless overhinted cipher with OP giving more hints in chat or senseless riddles.
@Ankoganit: The wordplay question you were mentioning ? Eager to see it. BTW, you should atleast try to make it sound beautiful. It may not be, but you should try, as most don't.
I don't solve those by hand because it's too time consuming and I don't like having to deal with all the possibilities.
What would be really funny, is if I used something other than quipqiup to solve it :P
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@Ankoganit: Just saying, have you checked out this site ? The (now) second writing is bit paradoxical, considering the writer's background. But, the site is awesome.
For example, he says, students should be taught not just what the mass of an electron or a faraway star is, but also how it will be measured.
It's not as easy as it seems.
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@Ankoganit: I'm not saying he is 100% right, but mentioning the untestable stuff is one of the things that make me hate physics/chemistry in school. Measuring it by yourself doesn't force you to accept stuff without questionning.
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It also makes sure you don't mug up the stuff. For example, keep away electron, but you should be able to measure the distance from earth to sun with all homemade items.
@ArbitraryKangaroo I'm not sure either, but I love to hope they do...:)
Actually, all the problems he mentions are true, but the solutions aren't anywhere near.
There's a lot we need to do, but little that we can actually do.
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@Ankoganit: Yeah, that's true. It's probably irreversible. There are some people who like this [??? The aren't mad ?] and the others who rant [like me], but don't do anything good. By the way, this guy can do most.
This puzzle consists of three riddles. For each riddle, give the solution and then, finally, the word that connects these solutions.
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´ ...
I found an odd poem lying around. Who wrote it? When? What is the secret in it?
NONE TO DO
ANDNONEAROUND
A zer0.WHERE
YOU GAZE,REA
LIZE. NOTHING
SAME # zer0ES
AND3NONEleft.
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This is my first puzzle on this site, so I'm open to suggestions.
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Hin...
On this site it's normal to give a puzzle 2-3 days before even thinking of hinting. The users of this site all live in different time zones and don't always get on every day.
Phillip, a 68 years old man, was near the end of his life.
Before passing away, he decided to hand to his daughter a piece of paper with the following:
48 7A 2D 38 8B
On the back, there was the following text:
DEATH, what unpleasant surprise.
While I'm gone, enjoy life and smile.
You can fin...
@Ankoganit: I know this riddle and occasionally return to it, but I fear the OP won't come back to it. I had even created the text in an image so that I can rotate and play around in MS Paint, but it hasn't gotten me anywhere.
@dcfyj: Not exactly fun, no. I didn't know that uploading an image will post it right away in chat. (Why are there so many different interfaces for posting - Q/A, comments, chat?)
Yes, but comments don't have the buttons to the right. I should have used my regular technique: Create a fake answer somewhere, upload the image, copy the imgur address and scrap the answer.
Then again, it's not that I post images very often.
@LukasRotter: Oh, I just used that interface, but pushing the "upload" button posted my image right away. I had hoped to be able to edit the post. Let's just say that I'm not so good with interfaces.
Ah @dcfyj The numbers above "Rebus (1,4...)" is the clue to the solution, the numbers represent the numbers of letters of each word of the solution. So in the first one, it would start like "A P..." and so on
@ArbitraryKangaroo I don't know if you've been in chat any of the times I've said it, but I'm horrible at solving puzzles and (In my opinion) only marginally better at making them.
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@LukasRotter: Not so detailed like "73.0366658 Long and 78.255555 Lat". Choose a bit vast one.
@dcfyj: I don't know, I googled up Ether, and it showd up. But I have seen "Ether" group occupied my chemistry textbook, which I don't bother to read, so I can't tell.
Heck, completely nonsense, I have to delete and request my profile seperately on every SE sites, and I requested on SO, not PSE; I thought all would get deleted instantly :(
@ArbitraryKangaroo You reckon those squares are a message?
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@Randal'Thor: I don't know nothing but very tiny bit of rudimentary python, but extracting values may spell something in someway. Lukas Rotter used a similar encoding, probably.