I'm following your excursions into the past again... because I've always had an everlasting fascination for codes, spent many, many hours devising bridge bidding systems in the old days when there were not so many restrictions...
I want to add to my puzzles, coded clues! So that the code can be very easily and quickly deciphered. Hiding one 4-letter word in a 12x12 matrix is not my idea of elegance. The following code hides one word in a sequence of 14 letters. To solve:
You can just write the answer down straight away, without having burdened your memory with more than about 5 bits of knowledge.
ASYIFKMKTUBZRB
Warning: The word you are looking for is not valid in scrabble, it's a name and a very rare one at that. It does, however, appear in Google, it's a name of great antiquity.
]]>What do you think of post#3? Did he get it right? Also I did not get any answer on your two deck problem. I did some additional work there for you.
]]>anyone know how this should be done?
]]>This is a definite challenge! Let us work on it for a while.
]]>The code:
86 92 17 13 12 11 19 18 76 82 19 01
44 66 16 14 13 12 27 12 91 71 04 12
92 47 14 65 35 41 97 22 13 04 42 13
81 88 91 87 44 92 61 45 00 95 29 92
94 91 89 29 72 61 25 04 42 62 24 87
62 54 44 43 61 48 04 91 63 17 16 63
87 86 63 62 12 49 27 61 33 42 44 21
93 14 72 71 16 21 22 34 10 14 98 67
34 23 34 16 89 09 97 55 45 82 64 76
45 64 01 12 42 91 23 33 26 87 94 22
90 04 33 23 44 24 21 44 65 28 46 13
00 12 23 55 64 22 12 99 34 12 44 12
Clues:
The numbers (obviously) stand for alphabets
This is a 4 letter word
Use the "bishop" to "check" the clue
Think of it as a chessboard