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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:50 am Post subject: 1 |
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http://www.glpics.com/mnowax/answer.JPG
right about there? Good work Thok!
Not too hard of a puzzle, right? I thought it was cool, anyway. And thanks Zag, she's also a programmer.... |
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| Thok |
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:36 am Post subject: 0 |
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There's a restaurant called Hillstone at E 27th Street and Park Avenue and next to it along 27th is a New York Life Insurance and Annuity. So that's probably it.
(I exhausted over Park Avenue and cubes: 64th didn't look promising, so I went to 27th next.) |
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| Zag |
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:09 am Post subject: -1 |
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"a Mountain Rock, contemplating monetary gains upon my death" sounds like Prudential Life Insurance. "where no car moves Avenue" Park Avenue, perhaps?
Also, best of luck with the date! A poker-playing puzzle fanatic -- if she's hot she sounds like the perfect woman! |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:37 pm Post subject: -2 |
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Since I'll be getting there early, I'm going to have some time exploring the city.for the first time in eight years.
Since I'll be out and around we are going to meet up when she gets out of her class. Since she has already destroyed me with her simple puzzle, I wrote one to her.
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When I get to NYC next week, I'll meet you Under a Mountain Rock, contemplating monetary gains upon my death. You know, on the corner of a perfect cube Street and where no car moves Avenue? |
So I pose the puzzle to you VSP-ers. Can you get a Picture on Google Maps where I'll be?
By the way, it may be a little easier for her, because she knows I'll be walking there from where I'm coming in. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:56 am Post subject: -3 |
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| 3iff wrote: |
...and it only took us 11 months to solve it...
Good luck, MNO |
or just different eyes...
Thank you, 3iff. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:43 am Post subject: -4 |
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...and it only took us 11 months to solve it...
Good luck, MNO |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:57 am Post subject: -5 |
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| Ah, cool story. The dinner really belongs to Trojan Horse. |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:18 am Post subject: -6 |
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Okay, about a year ago, I met this woman online. One of the things she had in her profile was a encoded message. Well we had hit it off, and we had been talking for about a month, then she disappeared off of the site leaving one last PM: to try and decode that message.
Well, the tenacious person that I was, I worked on it for a few weeks, trying to figure out what the hell it was. I was using it as a key to decode things, used anagrams on it etc, but just couldn't figure it out. Then I came here to see if anyone else could shed some light on it.
Since i couldn't get through it, I went a totally different way of finding her. I had her username on the site, her real first name, and where she was last ( in Rochester) from that information alone, I was able to find her by cross referencing all sorts of social media platforms and found her on Facebook, and after three months of making sure it was her, I contacted her.
Turns out she had moved to Washington state to take a programming job, and in the meantime found a guy. I tried so hard, just to find that! Well, we still had kept in touch, and the puzzle fell by the wayside. We we're quite cordial, and talked a lot during this summer.
Well, a few months ago she told me she was coming back to Rochester and would be staying in New York as well! Even better, she was ending her relationship with that pesky guy! I was elated. We met for the first time a month ago, and while she's in NYC, I'm going to meet her.
Now, after our first date, she had given me her number. When she did that, it reminded me of this thread, and how much time I had spent looking for her ( As you know, it was nearly three months before I took my shot in contacting her facebook).
About three days ago, I had asked her about it, and sure enough she told me it was her (now old) number that was encrypted. Well, we made a wager ( since we are both poker players) that if I could get it the number before I came down there, she would pay for dinner at Les Halles, If not, I'd have to pay for her buy-in when we play poker.Thanks to all of your work on this, I'm going to New York City in eight days to see her, and now she's paying for dinner. So the next time I see any of you in person, I'll owe you dinner.  |
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| Trojan Horse |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:55 pm Post subject: -7 |
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That was it?
Uh, I mean, yeah! Of course that was it! Glad I could be of service.  |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:31 pm Post subject: -8 |
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| Absolutely, I'll do a full writeup later on (I'm leaving for a few hours). It's a story of lost love, happiness, etc, it's quite cool. ( at least to me!) |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject: -9 |
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I woulda went with P for 0, the L seems odd.
Do we get the whole story now?  |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:20 pm Post subject: -10 |
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| MNOWAX wrote: |
scratch that, but 530 is....
The key above the L is an O...
585-530-9328 |
she confirmed this was it. Thanks you guys! |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:22 pm Post subject: -11 |
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scratch that, but 530 is....
The key above the L is an O...
585-530-9328 |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:19 pm Post subject: -12 |
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| but I believe those involve landline exchanges, not wireless exchanges, so, I['m not sure. |
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| Suspence |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject: -14 |
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| Jack_Ian wrote: |
| Perhaps you forgot to lift the toilet seat and it's her way of bringing it to your attention. I WET TOILET (anag.) |
My god I hope not! :-p |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:33 pm Post subject: -15 |
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| Trojan Horse wrote: |
Maybe you need to replace each letter with the number above it on a standard keyboard. TITTELOEWI=585-539-9328.
585 is indeed an area code in New York, so there's a chance this is correct.
Roughly a 0.001% chance, but still a chance.  |
WOW that's gotta be it! It's likely she had her old phone in the Rochester area, and that would have been her area code.
You guys are lifesavers on this one! I'll ask her and see what she says. |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject: -16 |
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| If not for the L, you would have me convinced. |
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| Trojan Horse |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:18 pm Post subject: -17 |
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Maybe you need to replace each letter with the number above it on a standard keyboard. TITTELOEWI=585-539-9328.
585 is indeed an area code in New York, so there's a chance this is correct.
Roughly a 0.001% chance, but still a chance.  |
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| Jack_Ian |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:52 pm Post subject: -18 |
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| Perhaps you forgot to lift the toilet seat and it's her way of bringing it to your attention. I WET TOILET (anag.) |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:09 pm Post subject: -19 |
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She won't tell me. Maybe I can get it out of her when I go to NYC later on this month. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:50 pm Post subject: -20 |
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| If it's an old phone number, is it possible to have a reasonable guess at how it starts? An area code number or similar? |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:39 pm Post subject: -21 |
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| I also tried it as a cryptogram, thinking there may have been only 1 valid English word that would map to TITTELOEWI (and we could phonespell from there). Unfortunately, there are no valid words that can map to that cryptogram. |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:37 pm Post subject: -22 |
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Let's think about this. A "friend" gave MNO her phone number in an encrypted format a year ago, and he's still trying to solve it and call her ...sounds like there is more to the story  |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:36 pm Post subject: -23 |
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Thanks...but as it's not the right answer anyway it doesn't get us any closer.
I'm shocked it's been nearly a year since this surfaced... |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:32 pm Post subject: -24 |
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| I agree with 3iff's - 848-835-6394. I tried phonespell.com, it doesn't convert into any other words. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:25 pm Post subject: -25 |
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| DejMar: My phone has W on the 9 button...so how do you get the W on the 8 button? |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject: -26 |
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| DejMar wrote: |
| 3iff wrote: |
| Phone code conversion is 8488356394 |
I believe the conversion would be 8488356384. 8=TUV and 9=WXYZ on most phone keypads, to including the ITU E.161/ISO 9995-8 international standard.
I suspect, though, that the phone code conversion may be fruitless in the case of the titteloewi cryptic. |
well she did say the answer is her old phone number. That was the first thing I tried, problem is that wasn't it. Anyone else know any letter to number cryptics? As you can see, I have been working on this for a year now. lol |
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| DejMar |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:48 pm Post subject: -27 |
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| 3iff wrote: |
| Phone code conversion is 8488356394 |
I believe the conversion would be 8488356384. 8=TUV and 9=WXYZ on most phone keypads, to including the ITU E.161/ISO 9995-8 international standard.
I suspect, though, that the phone code conversion may be fruitless in the case of the titteloewi cryptic. |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:20 am Post subject: -28 |
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| Phone code conversion is 8488356394 |
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| Thok |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:15 am Post subject: -29 |
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| I found a clue to this, its a nonlinear cryptic, and it should be a 10 digit number. |
Look at a telephone? That's how I would convert a ten letter word to a ten letter number. But I don't have any context to check it. |
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| Oscar |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:25 am Post subject: -30 |
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Well, 'titte' is German for a woman's breast so could be loosely translated as 'bust'. There is a bust of German-born Otto Loewi in the Agassiz Room at the Marine Biological Lab at Cape Cod, Massachussets with a zip-code of 02543 1015. If we knew the room number, and it's a single digit, perhaps we could prefix the zip-code with that?
Failing that, I think we need more information.  |
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| 3iff |
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:48 am Post subject: -31 |
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| What's a nonlinear cryptic? |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:59 pm Post subject: -32 |
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I just wanted to bump this thread a bit.
I found a clue to this, its a nonlinear cryptic, and it should be a 10 digit number. |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject: -33 |
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| Interesting, but probably unrelated, fact - Otto Loewi (titteLOEWI) is the "Father of Neuroscience". |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:17 pm Post subject: -34 |
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| haha by the way, the cryptogram solvers didn't work. let it run for hours but nothing came up on three different sites. I'm thinking it may be a programming joke or something? I'm not sure. |
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:47 pm Post subject: -35 |
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| Chuck wrote: |
| Have you tried an online cryptogram solver? |
Isn't that what he was doing by posting here?  |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:00 pm Post subject: -36 |
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| I was not aware these things exist, Thank you! I've been brute forcing it for a couple of days now. |
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| Chuck |
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject: -37 |
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| Have you tried an online cryptogram solver? |
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| MNOWAX |
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:25 pm Post subject: -38 |
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| Any ideas out there at all? Ive got nothing here. My friend liked Fortune programming |
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