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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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An Odd Message
« on: Jan 7th, 2007, 9:47pm » |
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Another quick one I made today:
Peter and James are twin brothers. They share many things in life. They look alike, talk alike, even think alike although Peter is said to be the better athlete and James the more intelligent of the two. Because their parents don't want them to fight over their possessions they buy them matching sets of everything from shoes to toys to cell phones.
On an otherwise ordinary day James stays home from school, claiming sickness as an excuse. Peter says he feels fine and goes to school. Around lunchtime, James gets a text message from Peter on his phone.
76667*778844499991*83322224433777*926687777*26677779337771
34443*84433*47772733*4338*4487778*9443366*4448*33333555555*366696611
What happened? What is James' coded response?
Hint: The teacher (and I) have an odd sense of humor. Also, there may be a spelling mistake or two in there.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #1 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 3:54am » |
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Lots of repeated digits... That's weird odd.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #2 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 5:20am » |
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #3 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 7:29am » |
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I think you have the right idea JC. If you're not posting it because you want to allow other people to try it, that's fine. There is more to the coded answer though. And please include coded punctuation.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #4 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 9:42am » |
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4448*46668*227778844477773331
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #5 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 10:06am » |
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Not quite. Remember the first hint.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #6 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 10:24am » |
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Which part? about the sense of humour or the spelling mistake?
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #7 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 10:28am » |
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Humor. 
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #8 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 10:37am » |
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Ok then how about this? 4448*555338*666888*2*5554448855533*944466331 
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #9 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 10:40am » |
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Shouldn't the 5th word be 44887778 ? You know I know what the message is...
You missed an 8 there...
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #10 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 10:44am » |
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I noticed the same mistake. I figured it may have beeen intentionally ommitted.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #11 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 12:10pm » |
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There's some sort of information that I don't know and everyone else does, isn't there. :(
(besides the answer, obviously.)
I'd like to get some hints as to what to do with the numbers.
For example, I have no idea how to decode '33333555555' into a word. There's only 2 different numbers!
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #12 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 12:24pm » |
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on Jan 8th, 2007, 10:37am, denis wrote:| Ok then how about this? 4448*555338*666888*2*5554448855533*944466331 |
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Congratulations! That's horrible isn't it?
on Jan 8th, 2007, 10:40am, Sameer wrote:Shouldn't the 5th word be 44887778? You know I know what the message is...
You missed an 8 there... |
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Yep. As I said, there maybe errors. 
And Locke, I'm sure you'll figure it out if you just sit down and think about it. There are multiple clues to the right approach.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #13 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 12:33pm » |
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WTF: I actually never heard that joke before today. I had to google variations of Peter's decoded message to James to come up with this reply!
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #14 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 12:36pm » |
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Locke, if you get stuck, there is a BIG clue in one of the the Lost in Space posts
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #15 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 12:41pm » |
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Ok, I get in now. Thanks! :)
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #16 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 12:47pm » |
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Ah, I get it. I don't have a phone. That's the problem.
I wondered why I couldn't make sense of it.
hmm, maybe one day I should rejoin 'civilization'
[e] and thanks to locke for not deleting his translation fast enough[/e]
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #17 on: Jan 8th, 2007, 1:07pm » |
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on Jan 8th, 2007, 12:47pm, towr wrote:Ah, I get it. I don't have a phone. That's the problem.
I wondered why I couldn't make sense of it.
hmm, maybe one day I should rejoin 'civilization'
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I was so tempted to post towr will have lot of difficulty in finding the solution after our discussion earlier on the same!!  however I chose to point out WTF's error in spelling tsk tsk ...
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #18 on: Jan 9th, 2007, 1:09pm » |
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Would you mind if I used your characters for my own riddle? I'm not very creative. :(
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #19 on: Jan 10th, 2007, 12:12pm » |
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I have this really good code, but I can only use it if I use these characters...
If you really don't want to let me, I guess I'll try to think of a different story, but it won't be as good.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #20 on: Jan 10th, 2007, 12:19pm » |
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Sure. You mean Peter and James, right? Go ahead. I believe the Sons of Thunder those two ordinary guys are in the public domain.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #21 on: Jan 11th, 2007, 6:19pm » |
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on Jan 10th, 2007, 12:19pm, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:| Sure. You mean Peter and James, right? Go ahead. I believe the Sons of Thunder are in the public domain. |
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That's James and John. Peter was only their partner.
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Re: An Odd Message
« Reply #22 on: Jan 11th, 2007, 6:26pm » |
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D'oh.
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