Ok started from Q7, Q15, Q16, Q19 (solved kinda easy) and now I'm trying to remember song from Q17 which I do know of.. Hopefully more people will help on these soon. xD Nice idea for the group puzzle.
Edit: Q20 & Q9 & Q10 done
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Solved Q11, but now completely stuck. Anybody know anything about the last 4 questions?
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Uhm i tried Q20 and i think it should be 56 o.o http://www.metrolyrics.com/baby-lyrics-justin-bieber.html?ModPagespeed=noscript http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/justinbieber/baby.html If you search for the word baby, it will give you 56 (substracting the title and other baby words that are not in the lyrics)
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I call bullshit on this puzzle
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Does the answer to Q13 have any punctuation marks?
And Are you talking about the song Salve Regina in Q1?
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Is there any one else here still trying to solve this, I'm getting real close to solving Q18, might need some help from master googlers
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Was actually looking at Offenbach / Infernal Galop operetta, (due to the can-can description) but I may be off.
Leaving it here in case it helps :
The Infernal Galop from Act II, Scene 2, is famous outside classical circles as the music for the "Can-can" (to the extent that the tune is widely, but erroneously, called "Can-can") .
PS: Over and out for today
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Just started on this ... found and tried Tommy Guerrero and Ronan Hardiman so far ...
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I tried pretty much all the artists on MusicBrainz' search results for "Salve". Also tried YouTube and Spotify. Now going through some names on AllMusic.
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I give up. Will try to find out what the hell Connor said to the Vegas girl.
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gave up on that too, and no idea about Conor - watched the video, and since the question is "Conor probably said to vegas girl ...", I'm thinking it's what he might've said in the end, but never actually said?
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That gave me an idea of trying "I Found You", but wrong.
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I thought Connor probably said "R U Crazy? R U Crazy? R U Crazy? R U Crazy?". Her number is a no, but her picture is a go?
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I was surprised she even stayed and listened to him get that far ... and then showed up to the party after being mass-stalked :/
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well, my idea didn't work...
Black is a color, His & Hers, rime is archaic for a kind of ring = red herring(s)
Don't even know if it's one word or more in the end ...
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might've thought of it, but I never would have tried it, good job :D
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Thanks xD I actually saw The Wanted's video while scrolling down the YouTube page and thought it would fit well. Fun fact: the guess I tried earlier - I Found You - is also a The Wanted song. :P
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Oh, I see it now, good catch! I didn't even go to the YT page since the video is blocked for me, so I just watched it on Vimeo ^^ (I still wouldn't have put that together)
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Well, technically this should be correct
but it's not
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Sounds like a punk band - does it mean it should be horrible.
Or do you mean the text? I have no idea what the text is.
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Not the genre nor the text, I guess it's the voice that annoys me.
But the song is stuck in my head for some reason.
How did you manage to find the song though?
Everytime I try searching I can only find salve regina
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I found it there: http://www.last.fm/search?q=salve
And there are no more Salve's.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtcab24iJHk
Check new hints given by OP, Salve is not the actual name of the song
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^^ got Q1 on first try
Edit: assume the hints weren't there before :(
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I thought salve was a greeting and I have had Adele Hello stuck in my head for days ^^
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Got S4Q7. I'm surprised that no one had answered it yet.
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I see that, but seriously, it was way before this when I looked at this question, tried to submit the answer but it was already guessed... like at least 10 minutes before the post announcing it. Meh.
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S4Q3 they're all prime numbers, but I can't figure out the next in the sequence.
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Lol I just downloaded a zip file with a list of prime numbers from 0-100,000 trying to figure out the pattern
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yeah I started counting prime numbers between
first 160
then 322
must be around 640-644 until next in sequence.... but no......
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Nice job. How'd you get the answer?
Edit: aw crap. I overthunk it. Derp. LOL
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Found random hidden strings in the GAs after stage 1....
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OP also has hidden text, convert to "ctdjy qpgyp uhnis vycdo kiao". Not sure what does it mean.
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There's also a weird Base-4 hidden in the main description, but it's rather strange when converted, some things in the start I can't make sense of and then just a bunch of zeroes.
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I thought it was Hex? Which then translates into Binary. Which then doesn't make any sense (my comment above you).
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Hex is base-16, all numbers are between 0 and 3, so should be base-4, but I can't make sense of it.
Oh, wait, you're right. It's hex for a binary. That makes sense why it's only 0-3 then.
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Try separate it into pairs, you get multiple sets of 8 pairs of 30 and 31 (0 and 1 in hex), with 20 (space) in between.
Edit: You saw what I meant :3
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To sum things up, we have:
Password 1: 1355tfg45h/*-*+559
Password 2: ?
Password 3: 78345jggg#1#-03855+-t9t
Password 4: wTycHsLUGCwJspg3gy2jxQCM
Hidden GA-codes:
1: h345h
2: h5566635h
3: 65rgy7
OP (useful for Stage 5): ctdjy qpgyp uhnis vycdo kiao (translated to: passw ordpa sswor dpass word)
Stage 5 password:
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to me "ctdjy qpgyp uhnis vycdo kiao" looks a bit like caesar chiffre.
But i haven't found a match yet.
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The thing that throws it off is the evenly spaced letter pattern, unless he's purposely made it look like that.
I have an idea on that, but it makes no sense with those words unless the result needs to be deciphered... BRB, have to do some crunching.
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Nopes, tried rail fence cipher, it's the right way of writing it for that, but couldn't get anything out of it. Perhaps I'm missing something, here are my findings:
ctdjy qpgyp uhnis vycdo kiao
c t d j y q
p g y p u h n i s v y c
d o k i a o
cpdgtyopdukhjniiysavqyoc
4 rails leads me to this, which I also can't find any use for
cynkiqtpsivgdyyacpjudooh
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I just woke up and I see you guys are already at stage 5. Nice job! xD
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Yeah but it seems to be kicking our butt at the mo :)
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If it's pre-5, we're on the wrong path using the code from the OP.
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Yep. I think the passwords are what we need to focus on now, not the hidden text in OP. Perhaps the hidden code in GAs is password 2? But I don't know any ciphering method with asterisks :(
And where are those whitelist? Maybe the WL GA has something useful?
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We can ask for exclusive hints in there. oligovore already made a question about this stage, so I think we should wait for that reply.
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Unfortunately it's a very badly asked question that has no chance of giving vital clues to the password, and we're only allowed one question per stage. :P
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I'm thinking that there's more than one cipher needed. Probably two or even three steps.
Also we don't expressively know if we're on Stage 5 yet, the other puzzles stated which Stage we were on, but this one did not. So if we're not on Stage 5, is the code found in the OP the one we should even try to crack yet? And if we are on Stage 5, is the OP message all, or is that only a part of the password?
And as oligovore sort of asked, are we supposed to have found password 2 yet and is that the hidden GA-codes? Perhaps it's a combination of all passwords, and if it is we're looking at needed at least 5 different ciphers from the looks of it.
Asking what kind of cipher is needed might be valuable though, to more easily see the other steps.
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ok where are the Hidden GA-codes found and where did the OP hint come from....
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Is there a hint about what cipher we have to use somewhere or do we have to figure it out by ourselves?
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Aye, we're discussing what would be the best question to ask. ;)
But then at least it's confirmed that this is not Stage 5, which means we shouldn't be trying to solve the code in the OP? Because that says it's useful for Stage 5.
But what you're saying is kind of true for that message, which we've already figured out.
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I can confirm it's being used to this date. Right here, in this puzzle. :)
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Enigma is not unknown, you know. Especially there are some movies about Alan Turing recently. It's just quite complicate to do by hand and I didn't know they wrote some auto-deciphers out there :P
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Lol I just woke up and from Stage 1 you are stage 5? loooool. Nice !
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Did you guys also notice that from h345h and h5566635h, 3455566635 is hexadecimal for 4UVf5?
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I thought of h as hex, but I didn't combine them :-?
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I also thought of maybe combining it with 65rgy7. Could 4UVf565rgy7 be password 2?
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Based on this, I thought maybe the password could be combined of all 4 passwords, so I tried 1355tfg45h/-+5594UVf565rgy778345jggg#1#-03855+-t9twTycHsLUGCwJspg3gy2jxQCM, but wrong.
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I like Nordhbane's idea of recording what we have tried (like railfence), lest it give someone else a clue, or can give a spark, so here is what I have been playing with.
Writing ciphertext as xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx is very common, The issue here is that the text is too short for most cipher cracking to work. I can break apart a vignere cipher by looking for repeated strings, but ctdjy qpgyp uhnis vycdo kiao is just too short for that to happen. The same holds true for Enigma variants. Though it could be either of those things if we have a key.
Most of the other old ciphers, atbash, affine, caesar, etc. are all variants of monoalphabetic substitution. So dropping the spaces and trying to solve it as a monoalphabetic substitution, I get nothing. I could get "of but why thingard to became" or possibly "d havernments pocedal woul" Or "ngthe came as your dentiful i" Basically crap.
It could be some sort of columnar transposition thing where the text is written out into some number of columns and read up or down.
C T D I Y
Q P G Y P
U H N I S
V Y C D O
K I A O
I also tried a playfair cipher with a standard tableau and got dsydv tmkzo skohq xxdyi ihdl
Hmmmmm....... Anyone have any good ideas for a key.
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I have no doubt it works, we just haven't found the right cipher for it yet. :)
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"ctdjy qpgyp uhnis vycdo kiao" is the already deciphered text from binary and hex. :P We're looking for another cipher now for that last bit.
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It's been solved the password was 'passw ordpa sswor dpass word'.......
It now shows this
Unthorized acess detected:
C
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can you give me a link of the site that you used for that cipher as I can't seem to get any Enigma ciphers to work please
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damn it that was one of the things I didn't change on the one I was using.... :( ohwell
Just got to think of what this next part mean lol
Thank you for this puzzle
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Darn, Enigma was only a few ciphers down from the list of ciphers I was going to try before I ran out of time. :( Was gonna start working on it this morning again. Oh well. :)
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lol yeah I know I forgot to set it up as A A A and it was A B C >< but come join me on stage 5
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See, I did look at enigma, but I gave up. The enigma machine used has wheels set to AAA, no plugs installed, and rings 01,01,01. Nobody in the history of cryptography has ever used any real enigma machine like that. It like doing a Caesar shift 26. Technically it is ciphering, but nobody would do that.
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