Hm. @BeastlyGerbil But the first three lines are connected? Kinda thought that was leaning toward them forming a single word. (Also, I saw someone quote you on that, but never saw the original statement nor found anything in the puzzle that suggested it)
Hmm. It only made a difference in one equation. And I found one error, apparently I was in mid-simplification on #13 when I pasted it to the spreadsheet, sorry
Huh. Ok so @BeastlyGerbil - I've got "1B" for one of these, from "3B - 2B" - but there's more than one B in paragraph 1. are we intended to know how to resolve that, or do we just guess at it?
@Deusovi #19-24 should be NUMBER, so there's 3 wrong in there. first one is #22 the ambiguous B. haven't looked at the rest. #22 looks like "F" was intended.
@Deusovi I did some calculations and worked out it was almost exactly a 1 in 100 chance of getting all lowercase. One took me about 20 goes the other took about 150...
The posted equations 22-24 don't give what you have for them, and I think the last two are off by one spot. Also you have 7 letters where we only have 6 equations. So yeah - something went amiss there, hope you can find it
I think @Techidiot found the "b" we were too blind and stupid to see, and solved the riddle; I simplified most of the equations and Deus filled in most of their letters; I found the imgur fodders, figured out C for capital; Deus did the spreadsheet and added the vigenere coding, solved the 2nd image, and found the final image. a minute before I did, I think, lol. Volatility helped fill in letters and equations. Tech posted updates along the way in his answer.
I think that's largely accurate. It was a nice group effort.
I'm curious: I've heard that a code can be thought of as a function on whole words, and a cipher as a function on individual letters (only dependant in some cases on past values, not future ones). So what is the correct terminology for a transposition code/cipher/what's-it-called?
@Techidiot Your riddle, I'm just gonna ask - when it says "One of us reside in each line", is that literally so - exactly one occurrence of the "us" of the riddle can be found in each line of the riddle? Someone in a comment sort of asked that and didn't get a meaningful answer.
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