On February 5, 2023 at 1:00PM EST atancr02 responded to Saido:
I too had very little difficulty with this puzzle, mainly due to my Computer Science background. It felt good getting this one after struggling to solve the one before.
You do have to understand binary to ASCII conversion, which requires outside knowledge. Of course, you can easily look up a table, but you need to know enough about computing to know what to look up.
I found it easier converting each octet to a Hex digit, and using that as the lookup key.
On January 7, 2022 at 1:27PM EST Saido wrote:
This is the first puzzle I was able to solve without any hints (yes, I even struggled with the early ones). I really enjoyed this theorem because it was a real test of pattern recognition and noticing small details without requiring outside knowledge.
On January 10, 2023 at 12:27PM EST Just-A wrote:
Interestingly I missed the PAC-MAN code and instead used the relative positions of the ghosts, which when using a binary-to-ASCII generator resulted in the ^ symbol - an upside-down 'v'. Close enough!
On April 22, 2022 at 1:12PM EST MissSandwich wrote:
On January 7, 2022 at 1:27PM EST Saido wrote:
This is the first puzzle I was able to solve without any hints (yes, I even struggled with the early ones). I really enjoyed this theorem because it was a real test of pattern recognition and noticing small details without requiring outside knowledge.
On April 20, 2021 at 10:53PM EST chilludio responded to Buck:
Basically, it's encoded through their eyes—looking down is 0, looking up is 1
On February 13, 2021 at 2:06PM EST Buck responded to Gneen:
I couldn't figure this out either
On January 24, 2021 at 1:02PM EST Gneen wrote:
Not sure in the Pac-Man pic how you get 0111 0110 Or X(76) to get the lower case v ??? They don't seem to be properly placed???
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On February 13, 2021 at 2:06PM EST Buck responded to Gneen:
I couldn't figure this out either
On January 24, 2021 at 1:02PM EST Gneen wrote:
Not sure in the Pac-Man pic how you get 0111 0110 Or X(76) to get the lower case v ??? They don't seem to be properly placed???
On January 24, 2021 at 1:02PM EST Gneen wrote:
Not sure in the Pac-Man pic how you get 0111 0110 Or X(76) to get the lower case v ??? They don't seem to be properly placed???
On January 17, 2020 at 11:24PM EST Richelieu wrote:
The Reverend's hint got me there - I went ahead and decrypted #3 to keep a fair score. I was on a different track, trying to convert the 8 bytes to a graphic on an 8x8 grid.
On January 3, 2020 at 9:58AM EST ReverendTed wrote:
The 3rd hint mentions using an ASCII table. No need for that if you just take out the two common bits in each octet.
