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Administrative details (not part of the puzzle):
The answer is a clue to The Security to the Party [12] (now with party soundtrack!) which is currently unsolved and has a bounty for the first person to solve it.
For the benefit of anyone witho...
Nice. The four square symbols renders in my browser as empty squares. Don't know why...
I'm using chrome too. Odd...
I think that you will need to add something more to explain the challenge, otherwise some people might close-vote as "unclear what you're asking".
Curiously, all the symbols render correct in my URL, but not in the page. So this might be something about the system fonts... Anyway, I have the picture.
Tried writing abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789 on Webdings, Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3, and nope, just one or two of the symbols matched anything more by luck than anything else. However these symbols are present in the Segoe font family.
Two "words" made up only by the symbol "◉" (fisheye). That symbol never occurs with any other symbol in the same word. So, this may be some sort of separator. Or might be numbers: 2 and 3.
Hi @Victor! No: the answer to this puzzle is a clue for the party puzzle, but the party puzzle does not provide you with any clues for this one or anything you need to solve this one. It's a one-way relationship. You can safely ignore the music tracks for now.
I pasted the symbols into MS Word. Most of them come out in a font called MS Mincho, but a few in Times New Roman. They all seem to be pretty close together in Word's list of symbols. Can they all be translated backwards to land on letters of the alphabet?
This is so-o-o confusing! May be you can just leave the photo and conditions of the puzzle + your question about it (and remove all other historical stuff)?
I feel like the double fish eye symbol is the separator. The it makes an even 16 symbols. I dont think simple substitution works here because the words are too small. it may be a block cipher since 16 is a square number.
@Raystafarian Theres three fisheyes at the end. I am considering one to be in the ciphertext and the double fisheye as the separator. I could be totally wrong as well :/
There also 21 different symbols. Assuming that these are two sentences, and that punctuation is included. I am guessing that there are atleast 18~19 letters out of the alphabet used. Which is a lot for such a small sentence.
My frequency analysis on the cipher if anyone needs it: i.imgur.com/DUabfcF.png and theres 12 spaces
I think I have a good idea of what kind of cipher it is! A variation of a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigpen_cipher cipher. The square is encoded 12 different ways. The circle 12 different ways. and the triangle 2 different ways. Now I just need to allocate the letters to each symbol.
@AE Are there any concatenations? Or slang? Or acronyms?
Most symbols are circles, diamonds and squares. The only exception is "►" (triangle pointing to right). Maybe this is important, specially if this is indeed a Pigpen.
@Raystafarian I too, were working with ab cd def gh ijij khl mm nocf pqcr rs ts uuc mmm. I suspect that the given text is written right-to-left too. (i.e. backwards)
@Raystafarian I took your cipher text, reversed it and changed the order a bit. dcbacuustsrrclhkjijihgfed... this gives something along the lines of: to know was accould be belight
@breadvelvet: Qn says "The answer is written text in the English language". You're safe interpreting that to mean that there are no digits 0-9 in the plaintext.
I'm still happily listening to my playlist btw. http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Security+To+The+Party+12+Soundtrack/102305750 (no clue intended there, I just am).
@AE I am at work right now...boss caught me working at this :P. So I wont be able to help much until 6-7 later. Can you keep it open until tomorrow atleast? :P
@stackErr: well, if the person who solves this one is feeling particularly sneaky then they might keep the plaintext secret, because it will give them an advantage solving the party puzzle.
And I had created a list of two and three words letter trying to fit them in the text. But then someone posted an answer and showed me that I were way off the target.
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