There seems to be one solver (at least if all the hidden giveaways from DeKaN are in the train...no idea though what to do with the text myself :D
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I'm no dummy, I think (I've done quite a few puzzles here), but that guide is so large it hardly qualifies as a hint.
My problem isn't knowing to look at ASCII tables for the numbers, but the fact that I can't seem to get a result of 5 characters that are all alphanumeric.
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Same, so far from that text I get hundreds of characters and however I convert them they would just come back as the text, not like a 5 character and digit giveaway link. A little confused since the hint doesn't tell you how to do things but rather that they are done. I've tried to cut from the text and convert just part from it but what's the point, once you convert that you get the text back again, or if you add numbers together you get values like 500 which are smiley faces which would never make it as giveaway links so I don't know where I'm going wrong and where the hint is but hopefully after they all end someone will let us know since I'm curious how this was done.
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To clarify, I do have five numeric values to work with. It sounds like you're missing those. I just don't know how to modify them to result in (ascii codes for) alphanumeric values leading to the GA.
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I do have the same things that you do..I meant to say I can get the hexadecimal numbers however what I'm supposed to do with those I don't get it, because there's too many and even if you convert them to chars converting text to hex and then lets say just 5 of them to char would give you a word from that text because char values make up the text. How you're supposed to convert a big amount of hex to just 5 hex that I don't get because there's no hint on why you would do that and how in this thread or the other thread. I'm not sure if you're supposed to rotate the text again but in the hint he said that's only for translating and I don't know if I should be reading the hex down or up but thats basically what rotx does so I don't get what I'm supposed to do.
I think the hint he was pointing us to was simply that base 16 can be converted to char using the ascii table , which is true, but you don't even need to use the ascii table since you have converter which can convert a hex to text which is a char in the ascii table, also because we don't start with numbers and adding them up, we start with letters so converting letters to numbers and back to letters changes nothing. So I'm here wondering why do you need to use an ascii table for.
Either way I spent too much time trying to figure out a puzzle, and I'm not here trying to solve Cicada's 3301 puzzle. It would be fun but for me at least the directions are just not on point. Thanks anyways OP.
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I understand what you mean by that, on the https://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ website I'm looking at the char/dec section but the issue is there's 14 numbers on each line and 100 lines of numbers and if I convert each character back I just get the text back, and if I add them up until each break then some characters will have a value of 200 - 700 which is something like boxes, hearts, smiley faces in the ascii code, so how would I get the 5 characters that give the start of the train from that is what confuses me. I know it's over now but I would appreciate if you had a minute to tell me what I was supposed to actually do with those numbers to get the start of the train I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
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I wish I had checked this thread yesterday. I had everything except I was stuck on those numbers being hex, not decimal. I would have easily solved it if I had checked for this hint.
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I have to be honest, I would've never gotten this. I suppose with enough luck I could've found the 5 numbers, but to then shift them up 10 numbers, that wouldn't ever cross my mind because I don't understand why I would've known they were decimal. I just knew they were numbers. I suppose for someone like me it was a lot of trial and error but this was basically a no chance. I was trying to solve a puzzle I didn't understand. Thank you for the explanation.
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Yeah, rot-10 is how it was encoded, but to decode it you need to use rot-16 (16+10 = 26 letters in alphabet).
This is why rot-13 is usually the one that is used, because 13 + 13 = 26 so it does not matter if you are encoding or decoding you use the same value.
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Code is shifted to X, that you can get from encoded piece of famous Latin text.
Hint 1: text encoded via ROT x (You have 26 options 😀 )
Hint 2: ascii table is your friend
Hint 3
Hint 4 for last 23 hours: Numbers are decimal. Didn't see it? see previous hint
Solution:
1) text is
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
, you will get it if decrypt using X=102) if you open source code (hint 3 about it), you will see
<a href="ESGST-96-93-68-77-60"></a> Code is shifted to <strong>X</strong>
GA code located near word Code3) Now you have five numbers 96 93 68 77 60, and you know that are decimal (hint 4). You are shifting it to 10 and get 106 103 78 87 70
4) You open any ascii converter or table (hint 2) and convert it to j g N W F
PS: if you use EGST, you see star about post and it says "there is hidden code from five numbers"
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