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I hope the puzzle wasn't too difficult. Anyways good luck!

Intended answer: Caesar 7 shift cipher -> Deadfish interpreter -> ASCII to text converter

Not too difficult if I could figure it out 😅

Thanks!

1 year ago
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1 year ago
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I was giving too much attention to the poem, I thought "rot" was referring to Caesar 7 too at first (like rot-7 cipher or something).
Thanks for the puzzle btw ;)

1 year ago
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It was encoded in rot-7 so it would have to be decoded in rot-19. The standard rot-13 usually works both ways since there are 26 letters in the alphabet.

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Okay, I made it. :-D

Some weird coincidences:

  • Decoding the message in rot13 gives ccmccccmcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxixxxiccccciccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccci which are all roman numerals.
  • dcode.fr says ppzppppzpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppvkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkvkkkvpppppvpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppv looks like it's encoded for 7 segment displays, which makes no sense because it does not look like that at all, but by coincidence they picked an encoding with 7 in the name
  • io and sd are next to each other on the keyboard so that feels like you could do something with that geometrically
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I originally picked the number 7 at random. Although, I did notice the 7-segment display thing when I checked different cipher identifiers to make sure people couldn't just instantly look up how it was encoded. I didn't change it because I thought it would be good to have at least one red herring considering the fish theme. However, I didn't notice or consider the other coincidences you found.

1 year ago
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It took me a while to figure out that it was triple coded.
What will be next? Quadruple coded? /jk

1 year ago
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Well, I've learned a lot! 😄
Thanks for an interesting puzzle and giveaway. (And quite a nice poem)

1 year ago
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ChatGPT actually wrote the poem I just edited it to work with the puzzle.

1 year ago
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Finally got here with hints =)

1 year ago
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Cool puzzle! I wouldn't have known to look for Deadfish without the last hint. When I searched fish in dcode, the only thing it pulled up was some other programming language called Blub.

1 year ago
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Same here. Never heard of Deadfish before.

1 year ago
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same here, never heard of deadfish language before. actually, dcode.fr did the second part by itself — I just added "dead fish" in the "Clues/Keywords (if any)" field of its cipher identifier.

1 year ago
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I'm in! :)

1 year ago
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Thanks for all the fish!

1 year ago
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The first part I got after the first hint, but I'd never, EVER heard of the second one before, so I didn't get that until the third hint and the dcode's cipher identifier.

1 year ago
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A bit late, but made it. Nice one. Should have read the 3 hint earlier, while I focused too much on the first 2

1 year ago
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Hell yeah, what a nice suprise! Thank you very much! :D

1 year ago
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I watched TeosGame play it and the game looked like a ton of fun, so I hope you enjoy it!

1 year ago
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Yeah, I've seen a few streams as well and already was debating getting it.

1 year ago
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I just finished it and had a lot of fun, so: thanks again! :D

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