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Fet

Yep, my hunch was correct. Gonna try other ones now to see if there's anything I like.

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stlpaul

Good job! :)

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Fet

Thank you. Cheers for giving a little bit of mental exercise to keep my brain from atrophying.

6 years ago
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Domazo

Ah, just the right amount of puzzle I needed at the right time. Many thanks!
Also, check my SG profile and see if you find something you like. :)

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stlpaul

I'm at work, near quitting time, and trying to find ways to pass the time, other than actually doing my job. So there we have it. :P

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trentjaspar

Always a good reason.

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juzer

o/

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funpra

i LIKe PuzzLE aNd binARY Code

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LukeFox

Thanks for puzzles :)

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benia95

First I tried to search unicode symbols
Unicode Puzzle

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MANotorer

Nice puzzle :)
Out of curiosity, are there any tools to do these kind of encoding or did you write something yourself? (can't really believe this was done by hand :) )

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0ldNick

I think most people use XLATE, which I found out from the thread zelghadis made about puzzles here on SG

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MANotorer

Thanks for the link, I knew the puzzle guide but must have overlooked xlate so far.
But as far as I can tell, it also only does the standard conversion (ascii <> binary <>hex etc), but not the mapping of binary to case that is used here, or am i missing something on the site?

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0ldNick

Not unless I missed something too 😉.

I was actually wondering about that, whether everyone was just converting the case to 1s and 0s by hand or if there was a faster way (it did get a little tedious 😄)

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MANotorer

Well decoding can be done pretty fast with notepad++ f.e. replace (with regex) [A-Z] with 1 and [a-z] with 0.
For the encoding i couldn't find anything, beside writing a program which does it, but i somewhat doubt this was the case(at least for most poeple), considering all the answers in the same style.

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stlpaul

I made a little c# statement in LINQpad

Set string ga to the giveaway code, set enc to the encoded text to use (repeats as necessary)

string ga = "acFYD";
string enc = "puzzle";
int pos = 0;

foreach (char c in ga)
    foreach (char b in Convert.ToString(c, 2).PadLeft(8, '0'))
        Console.Write(b == '1' ? enc.ToUpper()[pos++ % enc.Length] : enc.ToLower()[pos++ % enc.Length]);
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MANotorer

Ah nice, thanks for that.
Makes me wonder if the others that replied in the same style also wrote something themselves or did it by hand after all :)

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BlueLightning42

see that code is actually so nice- the shit I wrote was just a mess thrown together in python in comparison

post = "random text"
binary = "".join(format(ord(x), "b") for x in post)  # Stolen from stack overflow
enc = "bump" * 20  # Cause I'm lazy

encoded = []

for a in range(len(binary)):
    if binary[a] == "1":
        encoded.append(enc[a].upper())
    else:
        encoded.append(enc[a].lower())

f = open("out.txt", "w")
f.write("".join(encoded))
f.close()
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0ldNick

Nothing for me, but thanks for the puzzle stlpaul 😎👍

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Fleart
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Wow, that was really clever, I liked it

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mysticdairy

It's nice when a random thought like "maybe it's just a way of hiding binary" pays off. Very interesting puzzle format.

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Praxa

Nice puzzle!

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jeffhowe

Yay!

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Caractacus

Meow

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hotshot21

The moment I looked at it, it remainded me Binary Code, but I was tried and said "I'm illusinating".
Well, I guess I underestimated my mind :)
Thank you!

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Ceebers

I kept trying to think what a 25 digit code could be for before I realized it wasn't one code.

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Redino

Hello

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Flygonite

I needed the hint, both to figure it out and for a good chuckle. Thanks!

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winona1986

I am here!

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s12333211

Thank you!

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stlpaul

You're welcome & have fun! :)

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