code_challenge_2 smurfus rex AAGFA FDFGA GFGFD XAXAF AAFGD GAXGF GXAXG GAXAF FFDGA XFGDF XGFFD GFGAX AAGAA AGFAF ADAXD GGFGA AFFFD GAXFD AXXDA AFGAA DDFDA XAAFF AXAAF DFFDG FAFXA ADXAX AAGFA FFFDG AXFGF XGGAD AXAGA AGDAX AAFGA DFAAA AGDXA AFGFG AAAGD XAGGA GFFFD GAAGF AFFFD GAXGD GFGFG GADAX AGAAG DAXAA FGADG AGFGF AFXDX 040501 ... smurfus rex This one uses a well-known method that you can find with Google, but it has not been transposed or had a keyword applied, as the original coding method would call for. Enjoy! 040501 ... smurfus rex and here's a link back to code_challenge 040502 ... smurfus rex 444.66.66.666.6.444.66.33.7.2.8.777.444.7777.33.8.333.444.555.444.444.33.8.7777.7.444.777.444.8.88.7777.3.444.2.22.666.555.444.2.888.33 040602 ... smurfus rex oops...I mean, try code_challenge_3 next. Hehe. 040602 ... dosquatch OK, letter couplets, corresponding to a 5x5 grid. There are 49 sets of 5 letters, or 245 letters in the ciphered text. There's a broken couplet, or an extra character, or something. I don't know. You said the grid was alphabetical. What about the indicies? You said to string all of the letters together and decode. OK, so far I've tried 1) down and across with forward alphabetized indecies 2) across and down with forward alphabetized indecies 3) down and across with reverse alphabetized indecies 4) across and down with reverse alphabetized indecies 5) all of the above, dropping the first letter of the ciphered text (hoping that nagging extra letter was the first one) I've come up with nothing. A bone, please? 040615 ... dosquatch Or, maybe I'm getting something and not recognizing it. I seemed to solve the last one and thought it was gibberish... is the solution in English? 040615 ... smurfus rex _A D F G X A D F G X put I and J in one space, follow each letter in the couplet to the intersection in the grid to get the plaintext letter. "ADFGX cipher" in Google will lead you to pages that describe the complete method for this cipher, but I chose not to employ a keyword or transposition. 040615 ... dosquatch Yep, that's the first thing that I tried after I posted ciphermeister. The first 20 chars of what that gets me is "aschqsskecatiesuetec" Which looks like nonsense output, so I disregarded it as incorrect. Are you telling me that I'm again seeing gibberish where there is not? And what about that extra character? 040615 ... smurfus rex I'll check my notes, but let me make sure: for a couplet like "GF", are you going from the G row over to the F column, or the other way around? Because some of the letters you got are right, but I'm thinking it's because they correspond to double letter couplets... 040617 ... dosquatch OK, double check me. What I posted was row/column, but I've also tried column/row. Nothing that looks right shakes out. . a d f g x .---------- a|a b c d e d|f g h ij k f|L m n o p g|q r s t u x|v w x y z AAGFAFDFGA GFGFDXAXAF AAFGDGAXGF GXAXGGAXAF row/column gives me: aschqsskecatiesuetec column/row gives me: aolmdoowvlasrvoyvtvl And neither looks like anything worthwhile. Please tell me where I've gone wrong. 040617 ... Forgive me the font change... 040617 ... mood ring bleh. i dont even understand the method for figuring this out. it may be cuz i had to call up every algebra memory that ive ever had today. or maybe im just dumb. hmmm. PS: i luv the font 040617 ... smurfus rex please forgive my toolness... try: _ A D G F X A D G F X I keep switching the G and F...sorry. :( 040617 ... dosquatch HAAAAAA, glory glory! "aod(sic) I looked as he opened the sixth seal aod(sic) behold there was a great earthquake aod(sic) the Sun became as bqack(sic) as cloth aod(sic)the moon became as blood" 040617 ... smurfus rex man, I *did* fuck that up, eh? 040617 ... smurfus rex now accepting applications for proofreader... hehe :) 040617 ... dosquatch I hereby canonize "bqack" as a real word :) 040617 ... linkfix . 040617 ... the_saudi_puzzle ... 040618 ... smurfus rex how would you use "bqack" in a sentence? perhaps it should be one of those extremely versatile words like "fuck" :) 040618 ... kookaburra no way smurfus! bqack you! :) 040618 ... dosquatch * bqack that! * What the bqack is that? * I opened a can of bqack on his ass! * It's bqacked. 040618 ... smurfus rex code_challenge_4 has arrived! In the immortal words of Bruce Campbell, "Come get some!" hehe. 040702 ... smurfus rex hot on the heels of #4, code_challenge_5! Do it! 040803 ... smurfus rex On Her Majesty's code_challenge_6 040831 ... :) SHE2 040831 ... smurfus rex And may I introduce President code_challenge_07 and Vice-President code_challenge_08. Any similarity to actual figureheads living or dead is purely accidental and coincidental. 050207 ... ** TOE2 050208 ... .. ** 050208 what's it to you? who go blather from