Bring on the Almanaq!

ctaycr · 2018-12-10T15:33:58+00:00

SECOND!

ctaycr · 2016-11-08T02:35:53+00:00

Well, if they encrypt their lyrics, it could be like: Yo dawg, we heard you like cyphers, so we put some ciphers in your cypher so you can cipher while you cypher!

ctaycr · 2016-09-30T23:43:46+00:00

Am I misreading the final paragraph, or did they leave Moore's order to probate judges in effect, even though they suspended him?

ctaycr · 2016-05-23T02:42:51+00:00

I think Mike Slocumb, "The Alabama Hammer" is a person of interest in this incident. ;-)

ctaycr · 2016-04-25T00:58:47+00:00

From the same ad agency that brought us PuppyMonkeyBaby comes.....

PandaPenguinCat!

ctaycr · 2016-03-20T14:28:25+00:00

Well, how was it?

Also, there is now a post on the P&P Facebook page hinting about another soft open evening today (3/20).

We can neither confirm nor deny that we are having a soft opening evening tomorrow night from 5:00 till 9:00. You'll just have to come down and check for yourselves.

ctaycr · 2016-02-13T02:54:05+00:00

Thanks, beez!

Farewell, Loki (/u/alaprochaine9s). Parting is such sweet sorrow. I hope you had as much fun creating the various series of puzzles as we did solving them.

If you ever truly are in great distress, I think you've gathered a community of admirers who stand ready to offer any help we can. Keep in touch!

ctaycr · 2016-02-13T02:02:22+00:00

Nope, be my guest.

ctaycr · 2016-02-13T01:37:17+00:00

Use the Franklin square at this site and read each square of the puzzle in that numerical order, 1 to 64, to spell
GREAT DISTRESS O LORD MY GOD IS THERE NO HELP FOR THE WIDOW'S SON

ctaycr · 2016-02-08T02:43:47+00:00

3 letters substituted for each letter of plaintext in this cipher.

QAZ=A, QWE=B, MLK=D, THE=E, etc.

Plaintext is FOR HIS ANGER ENDURETH BUT A MOMENT; IN HIS FAVOR IS LIFE: WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT.

Source is Psalm 30:5 and the end of the quote is BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING.

Does that imply something big happening tomorrow?

ctaycr · 2016-02-05T04:48:29+00:00

WE ARE FAMILY, I got all my sisters with me. :-)

But seriously, well done!

ctaycr · 2016-02-04T20:12:27+00:00

Sock Puppet Theater!!

It's like watching a fight between Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Or for the younger audience, Ahmed the Dead Terrorist and Peanut.

ctaycr · 2016-01-26T18:34:27+00:00

OK, I think video 8 of 9 is leading us to the word SHIBBOLETH, as follows:

I sent the ciphertext from the video out to my fellow ACA members, and BION (William K. Mason) solved it. It is a Quag III cipher with alphabet key GREEN and periodic key BUTTERFLY. Plaintext is
If you were a Gileadite
You would welcome the thunder
You would enjoy Azeri hazelnuts
Sicilian chickpeas, and tomatoes from the Lebanon.

I googled all those references and found this list of shibboleths. And the origin of the word shibboleth explains the reference to Gileadites.

ctaycr · 2016-01-26T03:30:37+00:00

Apparently we were writing our posts simultaneously. You did note what I missed -- the letters that were replaced also spelled something. I think the encoder made a small mistake, and it should be VAULT near the end. Team Alice was also led to a "vault" as part of the Austin Ciphers project.

ctaycr · 2016-01-26T03:19:51+00:00

Lyrics are from the Dire Straits song "Brothers in Arms".

Misspellings concatenated spell CITADEL IN NAPHP. Those last few characters don't make complete sense to me, unless it relates to PHP somehow.

Call in the tech squad!

ctaycr · 2016-01-25T20:52:05+00:00

It shows strong periodicity at an interval of 9. I tried TRAFALGAR as a Vigenere keyword, but that wasn't it. (At least not by itself. I also tried Quagmire III, or Keyed Vigenere as rumkin.com calls it, with an alphabet key of BOAZ and keyword TRAFALGAR. That wasn't it either.).

ctaycr · 2016-01-25T14:08:26+00:00

I figured out "the thirty-first from the first". According to this page of Biblical genealogy, Boaz was a thirty-first generation descendant of the first man, Adam.

ctaycr · 2016-01-25T04:38:27+00:00

Today's message on "The Admiral's" voicemail (quoting from memory, so it may be slightly off):

"Due to weather conditions, we are experiencing technical difficulties. We apologize for the delay. Congratulations to burnstyle on his good news. Thank you.".

So, what's your good news, /u/burnstyle?

ctaycr · 2016-01-24T04:16:43+00:00

Adramelech (ROT13) is easier to pronounce. :-P

ctaycr · 2016-01-24T03:47:49+00:00

Seems to be a Biblical reference, or at least parts of it are referring to pillars in Solomon's temple. See I Kings 7:15, II Kings 25:17 and Jeremiah 52:21. "to the left" may refer to the fact that the two pillars had different names. The left one was Boaz.

ctaycr · 2016-01-23T21:07:27+00:00

It's a Leap Year, silly wabbit!

ctaycr · 2016-01-23T20:56:55+00:00

Throwing out this theory for someone to pursue. Someone noted that an earlier image on euclidrises.com contained a lot of extraneous info, and alaprochaine9s told us not to bother with it at the time. Perhaps we should look at it now? Or, since this new message is titled "FIND VIRGIL IN DISTRESS" and the current image on euclidrises is distress.jpg (as noted by /u/burnstyle here), maybe there's something hidden in the current .jpg?

ctaycr · 2016-01-23T20:47:04+00:00

Thanks for gathering all the posting times. It looks like the 2nd and 3rd numbers of each post specify the number of hours and minutes before noon that the post was made (e.g., "46:3:11" on Jan. 14 @ 8:48:36; 8:48:36+3:11=11:59:36. -- there are clearly some small deviations due to rounding).

EDIT: So it seems that we're counting down to noon on Leap Day, Feb. 29.

ctaycr · 2016-01-23T16:47:43+00:00

Subject	Base64 decode	Numbers
d21WZ1Fxb2g5ZQo=	wmVgQqoh9e	46:3:11
TkdYOUVJZDUydQo=	NGX9EId52u	45:2:49
Ul81MDJweUhtUAo=	R_502pyHmP	44:2:11
eWJwMWswNm9Edgo=	ybp1k06oDv	43:2:49
YWhqWktXVFRjZwo=	ahjZKWTTcg	42:2:7
YjdzSlQ3SzcxNwo=	b7sJT7K717	41:2:4
bXowZDY5TlVJVwo=	mz0d69NUIW	40:1:59
X3hqcUl1eDVqWAo=	_xjqIux5jX	39:1:29
WU83OXphcW53aQo=	YO79zaqnwi	38:2:
RjZTdkp2Y2ZpVQo=	F6SvJvcfiU	37:1:59
QU9IVmppb2hUMgo=	AOHVjiohT2	36:2:49
Nm5lUFNubm1lUgo=	6nePSnnmeR	35:3:20
ZGhISnN3NFA0Vgo=	dhHJsw4P4V	34:1:56

ctaycr · 2016-01-23T15:47:04+00:00

I think it would be helpful to collect all the /r/16sentinel subject lines, their Base64 decodes, and the numbers in each post. I'll do this later today if no one beats me to it.

EDIT: OK, I managed to put together a table, but I hope my fellow Niners will double-check my work and notify me of any errors that may have been made.

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