Extremely tough riddle: 7/12/2020 15:35:13 |
yeeeeeeeeeehoooooo
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Extremely tough riddle: 7/12/2020 17:01:58 |
l4v.r0v
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Thanks for the walkthrough, Farah. Did anyone get past the Bacon cipher? I must have transcribed wrong (red=A, blue=B, and using the classic cipher where I=J and U=V) because the Bacon cipher was giving me a lot of unmapped characters. It seems like Math Wolf was also not getting the right answer from his post earlier.
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Extremely tough riddle: 7/12/2020 17:11:20 |
Mythos1618
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I will resist looking at the answer, until I solve it.
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Extremely tough riddle: 7/12/2020 21:35:09 |
Sauron the Terrible
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Same.
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Extremely tough riddle: 7/15/2020 11:04:27 |
Rheumakay
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Extremely tough riddle: 7/15/2020 18:53:50 |
l4v.r0v
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The Bacon cipher you can learn about by just googling "Bacon A's B's" (at least that's how I did it). And the cipher is simple enough (each letter maps to a binary sequence, e.g., AAAAB/00001 = B) to understand without even the slightest background.
I think the only special background that gives you an advantage would be familiarity with puzzles. E.g., giving away the name of the cipher in a riddle at the top is a puzzling norm that might not be obvious to someone not already acquainted with puzzling. Fwiw, I only thought to look more closely at the poem at the top after getting through Farah's easier puzzle on Discord where Farah's poem gives away the less obvious step of solving the puzzle. I think this is also a common practice on Puzzling StackExchange.
Edited 7/15/2020 18:54:27
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Extremely tough riddle: 7/15/2020 22:39:35 |
l4v.r0v
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So you study the psychology of clouds. Sounds close enough.
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