Friday, 21 December 2007

Answers to the second easy and fourth hard sets

The second easier conundrum was a subsitution cipher with the keyword DUPIN and read, thus deciphered:

THE ANSWER YOU NEED THIS TIME IS BURIED WITHIN THE DISCOVERIES ALREADY MADE AND PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU LOOK THROUGH EITHER THE FORUMS OR THE UNEARTHED SO FAR SECTION THEN YOU SHOULD FIND EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION. VERY SIMPLY, WHAT NATIONALITY WAS WILLIAM MORAY?

The answer being buried in the letter from Dupin.

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The fourth harder set...

The first puzzle, the Turk was there only to suggest laying out the pieces of text as on a chessboard, like so:



And the clockface was a clue to read it clockwise from the top left corner. If you do, you'll be directed to a page of code.






The second puzzle, the map was a red herring. The grid has 26 horizontal lines, the top representing A, the bottom Z and all those in between. Translate each dot to a letter and read from left to right. It will present you with a googlable phrase to find the name and key of the cipher used on the first page. This cipher is a little tricksy as every letter can stand for several possibilities but it's worth persevering to find my 'Moray speculation'.

For those that have deciphered it in its entirety, it would appear that the date of 20 January is perhaps important.

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