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novice
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 Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:18 pm Post subject: 161 |
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| Is there a spreadsheet we're collaborating on for this one? Seems like that would be a good format for the work on this one. I've got my own Excel sheet started. |
Here's a shared and editable google docs spreadsheet version of Treasure Island.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq1IiQ8fbOs2dFlvWEVOQkNvcGdZWE9RdmxrTDVxVmc&usp=sharing
I'm going to try my luck in a private copy for a bit first, since it seems to be a jigsaw. |
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Suspence
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:14 pm Post subject: 162 |
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Shall we move on for lack of progress?
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gftt*
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:10 pm Post subject: 163 |
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Possibly. If anyone wants to revisit Treasure Island I can give a small hint.
But the next one is one I should be able to help with (modulo an initial aha). Presenting Caesar's Palace. |
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novice
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| Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:34 pm Post subject: 164 |
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| Obviously the clues are caesar enciphered. I don't know if there's a system behind what shift distances are used or if that is something to use later for answer extraction. At any rate it should be easy enough to decipher the individual clues by trial and error. |
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gftt*
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gftt*
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| Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:39 pm Post subject: 167 |
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| I have several of the long clues down but they don't fit with one another. |
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Thok
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:40 am Post subject: 168 |
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| gftt* wrote: |
| I have several of the long clues down but they don't fit with one another. |
Do they fit when you uncaesar shift the answer to fit with the question? |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:13 pm Post subject: 169 |
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| Thok wrote: |
| gftt* wrote: |
| I have several of the long clues down but they don't fit with one another. |
Do they fit when you uncaesar shift the answer to fit with the question? |
No... however, after trying a few it might be the case that you caesar shift these answer words by yet another number. Caesar shifting the answers would also provide one reason why there is a given letter in the grid. |
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gftt*
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:31 pm Post subject: 170 |
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| Yup, that's working. Anyone with bright ideas on how extraction would work if this gets completed? |
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Thok
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:44 pm Post subject: 171 |
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| gftt* wrote: |
| Yup, that's working. Anyone with bright ideas on how extraction would work if this gets completed? |
We've got a lot of caesar shift numbers. Turn them into letters, possibly caesar shifting them to deal with the fact that we might be off a constant.
(Alternatively, look at the shift from clue to answer.) |
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