I hate you now! I hate you now! I hate you now! .... aka bump
No clue right now, let me think about it.
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The game looks pretty cool and it seems like an interesting puzzle, but I haven't the faintest idea where to start, so I think I'll pass...
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Yeah, all I know for certain is that I've divided up all the symbols correctly and that my guess on two patterns of them is correct. I think if we were allowed to work together we might figure it out. Especially if you let me talk to your dog. ;)
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Ha! I know exactly what you are talking about ... and knowing that two facts for certain made me exclude some other (less probable) approaches. Focusing helps, I'm pretty sure I'm onto something right now :)
(Oh and while I agree that working together would be great, I'm not sure all my overly complex less probable theories would have helped you at all ;)
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I feel I have to comment on how I solved this, because ... well I wouldn't want anyone reading the solution in the top post and think "yeah ok that was impossible, how should I have guessed that?". I think the "crucial idea" isn't as big a leap as the solution makes it sound, so ... here's how I got there:
perrolijo wrote above that you had to realize that "square" and "strikethrough square" were special ... that was kind of the easy part -- square was the only "frequent" symbol, and these both are made of 8/10 lines instead of <= 4. So ... how to get to "Morse" from there?
Assuming that "square" was "space" and "strikethrough square" was "period" was a "relatively obvious" guess. So ... with that assumption the message had to be
<5 letter word> <10 letter word>. <3 letter word> <4 letter word> <3 letter word> <3 letter word> <9 letter word> <2 letter word> ...
or
????? ??????????. ??? ???? ??? ??? ????????? ?? ?????. ?? ???????????? ????????
At this point I had to guess what those sentences would be. Well ... I would expect the solution to give me a ga code, right? So my lucky guess for the second sentence was
The code you are searching is ?????.
That sentence has 4 "e"s, but they all were different symbols. But wait, those 4 symbols all have 1 vertical line and nothing else ... it's just in different places! Different symbols for the same letter have the same horizontal/vertical counts! ... once I realized that, I managed to decode the rest of the message. Well everything but the ga code :)
One problem while decoding was that some letters had the same "line direction" counts. For example, both "n" and "a" are "one horizontal, one vertical". It took me forever to realize that the order ("vertical first" vs "horizontal first") was different. After that I had a "working" translation table with things like "O: ---, S: |||" , but It took me a lot more staring at it to finally realize it was Morse. (yeah actually my table said "O: 000, S: 111" ... that didn't really help recognizing it :/
So ... why was this a great puzzle? Because it wasn't one single "huge leap", but lots of "small successes" ... and every wild guess I had to make was (relatively) easily tested.
How am I doing wall-of-text wise? :P
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Umm ... no please don't, that wasn't my intention at all ... perhaps I should add that it still took me an hour to get from the "lucky guess" to "working translation table" ... and a long break and "letting sink" from there to Morse.
And you wouldn't want to know the wild theories I invented before the lucky guess. 77 symbols? 7*11? So maybe it's 11 bytes, because who needs those high bits anyway, and wait, 11 bytes base64 decode to 7 bytes, so maybe it's /xxxxx/ ... and that's not the most absurd idea I had to forget :)
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Not your fault. Just seeing that the solution is kind of simple ...
Anyways - more luck for me next time or the one after that ...
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The only thing I could guess at was Hello at the start, but I tried the approach of assigning value to different lines, such as lower row vertical lines = 5. So 1 line = 5, which equals e (5th letter in the alphabet), but no matter how I justified the numbering I couldn't get anything else to fit.
If I was more well-versed in morse-code I might have seen the e standing out as being only a dot and tried it.
Here's what I did with the code from the start.
Cleaned up
Unique symbols
Since there were 77 symbols and 58 unique I knew that there had to be more than one way to write the same letter.
I tried with "The code for" as the start of the 2nd sentence, but I just couldn't repeat or justify it, so was stuck in a circle of trying to mathematically assign values to the characters.
Among my wild theories was Base-6 based on amount of dots connects using values between 2 and 7.
Hat off to you. :)
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Thanks for the puzzle. I did not solve it but really like the concept :)
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This is going to be a hard puzzle.
The game is The Room
The link to the ITH (It's Too Hard) puzzle is in the description of this giveaway
Requirements: Level 2+
Please don't share answers nor links, FAIR PLAY! (^_^)/
Deadline: one week (February 17th 11:00PM CET)
Good luck. I hope you enjoy^^
Solution: "Hello Steamgifts. The code you are searching is vPWkS. No bruteForcing required"
As you can see, I made a mistake in 'bruteforcing', sorry for that. As that mistake only affected capitalization I decided to not change anything to avoid giving additional hints.
Steps to solve it: First you had to separate the symbols using 2x2 squares. The red squares might help you to realize about that - http://i.imgur.com/2xaZWuk.png
You can see that there are 10 of those red squares, some of them crossed by a line, but the rest of the symbols are repeated only once or none. A good guess is supposing those are word separators. Guessing so, you already know you have a text composed of actual words (the ones crossed by a line were periods).
How to read those symbols then? This was the hard part. There are vertical and horizontal lines. Vertical ones represent dots, and horizontal ones represent dashes. That's it, in the end it was just morse, hidden by the fact that you can code the same letter in different ways, just reading the lines from top left to bottom right. - http://i.imgur.com/iAld3xN.png
Once you have the plain text, you can realize how capitalization works: if there is a line in the upper left corner of the 2x2 square (positions 1 or 3) it means that letter is capitalized
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