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Post by karangela on Dec 1, 2016 19:31:52 GMT -5
I have solved the Radio Puzzle but have not seen anything about it. May I have a hint about where it fits in?
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Post by Todd on Dec 1, 2016 22:55:15 GMT -5
I have solved the Radio Puzzle but have not seen anything about it. May I have a hint about where it fits in? I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I know which puzzle you mean. Are you referring to the First or Second Broadcast, perhaps?
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Post by karangela on Dec 2, 2016 20:04:02 GMT -5
The second broadcast.
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Post by Todd on Dec 3, 2016 7:06:57 GMT -5
The message behind the second broadcast will come into play as you work through Volume 2.
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Post by shanabee on Dec 3, 2016 14:59:21 GMT -5
Where can I find more information about this puzzle? On the wiki it says that part of it remains unsolved. Is this true still and also, is there a place to listen to the original broadcast?
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Post by Todd on Dec 3, 2016 15:16:19 GMT -5
Where can I find more information about this puzzle? On the wiki it says that part of it remains unsolved. Is this true still and also, is there a place to listen to the original broadcast? If the forground puzzle is solvable, it is unsolved. The broadcast is archived on the Wiki: curios-and-conundrums.wikia.com/wiki/Radio_Broadcasts
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Post by shanabee on Dec 3, 2016 15:30:15 GMT -5
Where can I find more information about this puzzle? On the wiki it says that part of it remains unsolved. Is this true still and also, is there a place to listen to the original broadcast? If the forground puzzle is solvable, it is unsolved. The broadcast is archived on the Wiki: curios-and-conundrums.wikia.com/wiki/Radio_BroadcastsWhen I click it, it says media not found. I'm on my phone so that could be my problem.
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Post by Todd on Dec 3, 2016 16:08:22 GMT -5
When I click it, it says media not found. I'm on my phone so that could be my problem. I just checked the link and it does play. It could be a phone limitation. Let me know if you cannot resolve the issue. I believe I have an archive copy saved.
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Post by Geodus on Dec 6, 2016 20:39:09 GMT -5
I've decoded the first numbers broadcast from the transcript on the wiki here docs.google.com/document/d/12v8SkiDU2wMeNCdDjEwsrEi18ptOmFtR0VYjgoFo9IU/edit and am now attempting to decode the second broadcast. However, I am immediately running into trouble. The key I am using seems correct because: 1) the speaker gives the same key text in the first broadcast, and 2) the range of numbers for the first part of each pair seems to match the source material. However, I'm ending up with gibberish, and many of the second numbers from each pair seem out of range. I wonder if perhaps there's some additional convolution I need to do. If someone has decoded this, I wouldn't mind a hint. I have a second observation, but I haven't made much progress on it: There seems to be a side-band message in the background, composed of low frequency "boms" and higher frequency "dings". I suspect these boms and dings map to dashes and dots in Morse code. I've manage to get some valid text from part of it (a word or two -- nothing with any real content), but it's difficult to hear over the voice. I wonder if anyone else has worked on this.
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Post by Todd on Dec 6, 2016 20:53:02 GMT -5
Regarding the numbers of the broadcast, if there is a solution, it is unsolved. Speculation is that it was just a red herring to hide the true message from the SZ. You are wise to focus on the beeps and boops, as therein is a message to be found.
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Post by Geodus on Dec 10, 2016 3:04:27 GMT -5
I made some progress on this, and was able to retrieve a new puzzle. However, I ran into a small problem and I'm not sure if it's intentional or not. There is a PNG file that fails to load in my browser (Chrome). I was able to download the image, but it fails to properly display in Windows Explorer, as well. I was able to open it in Photoshop, and I discovered that the image is quite huge: 6944x25301.
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Post by Todd on Dec 10, 2016 7:37:04 GMT -5
It's intentional.
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Post by jtobcat on Dec 28, 2016 3:42:34 GMT -5
Hi, I'm new here and am currently working on the second broadcast and seeing if I can find anything worthwhile in the foreground puzzle. Just wondering if there is documentation somewhere of things people have already tried to avoid redoing work that has already led to a dead end. Otherwise my thoughts are below. Instead of indexing to get a word like with the first broadcast, what if we index in to get a character (punctuation included, spaces ignored). This yielded TSUUANWO.PSHOBIDMGGHTEOONAWLSSHAIRAHHOTIOAISFNHNHEWEAI-U-UCTWLMAOEUNEOAESLYWT,ARTYWEREDLIAFEMABOGMSDT.UAMIUE
The two hyphens in the middle aren't from the text itself but are when the word dash was said in the broadcast (maybe for something like 'peek-a-boo'). The two periods and comma are from indexing into the text. The locations of the periods make me think this could be a telegram type message and the letters before the period at the beginning and after the period at the end are two names. ie. STRANGER. Bunch of text. PERSON
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Post by Geodus on Dec 28, 2016 13:00:58 GMT -5
Interesting. I tried to brute-force some Vigenere/Caesar decodings of your text (with the assumption that the last 6 letters might be ANDREW), but wasn't able to come up with anything. As far as I know, the foreground numbers have not been solved.
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Post by Yasoda Dei Conti on Dec 31, 2016 4:03:52 GMT -5
So, in the 24 hour lockouts for the full codes (blasted trial and error for figuring out tag sequences) , I've been pondering this, not that I've gotten any farther, but... This is just my rambling but there are ridiculously massive spoilers to explain my thought processes. Go no further if you haven't solved the other puzzles. In the original long, unsolved message from under the bridge, it said something like 'if I mention apples that means code 1'. Have a look at volume 1.5's pictures... So, I of course then ran jtobcat 's first letter clues in reverse (easy tool here: textmechanic.com/text-tools/obfuscation-tools/reverse-text-generator/) - producing EUIMAU.TDSMGOBAMEFAILDEREWYTRA,TWYLSEAOENUEOAMLWTCU-U-IAEWEHNHNFSIAOITOHHARIAHSSLWANOOETHGGMDIBOHSP.OWNAUUST So, nothing really. But the whole apples == reverse mode is driving me nuts. Also, there's the postcard, which, when solved (difficult to do if you don't have physically, btw, so much thanks to Todd for that) talks about grave danger and a codeword. Looking at the Bestiary for 1.5 shows a Haugbui - or a danger around graves. Still, running the text reversed or in its original through a Vigenere (easy tool here planetcalc.com/2468/) doesn't lead to anything using Haugbui as a cipher. It's bothering me, though. For those curious, to make the reversed text start with 'Andrew' as suggested above, you'd need a key of "ehfvwy" which leads to gobbledly gook for the rest. Am I maybe conflating puzzles and Haugbui is a clue for something else? Will keep looking. Maybe New Years' champagne will knock something loose. (aka questioning my decision to finally get around to poking into my curios and conundrums back issues over the holidays in my free time)
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