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Yet another 10B post

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  • #99321
    eel-eel
    Participant

    I’ve found some more patterns in the ciphertext through something I suppose could be labelled as lateral thinking about the number three, but the patterns I have found so far are leaving me closer to a solution yet more confused about how they have happened.

    #99309
    The_Bombe
    Participant

    Has anyone actually solved 10B yet?

    That would be telling! Harry

    #99306
    Emilia
    Participant

    I thought so too, theoretically I thought that ||| was a spare character (because it wouldn’t point to anything on a telegraph) but when I did frequency analysis it appeared 98 times, although this was the least frequent character it did appear a lot. I wonder if maybe one of the characters is either useless or maybe represents a new line/ full stop. Good luck! This challenge is definitely difficult, I am struggling on it too! Harry I don’t know if you will let this through, but I don’t think it gives away anything too important.

    #99313
    Napoleon
    Participant

    *find

    #99329
    Detective_NINE
    Participant

    how did you make sense of the first clue for 10b??

    #99341
    Sofia_Dey_Choudhury
    Participant

    I am LITERALly TRYing so hard but I don’t get it, I think I get what people are trying to say about the type of cipher but I don’t know anything about it 😭😭

    #99350
    Napoleon
    Participant

    I just assumed that when Harry said ‘Spot the difference’ he was indicating that there wasn’t any and that both mean the same thing.

    #99352
    someone
    Participant

    Harry please make the clues more revealing. Todays clue you literally changed a | to a / – i don’t know about anybody else but to me that’s like adding a grain of rice to a tub of rice and saying that it will help eventually.

    Muahaha. Harry

    #99355
    T-T
    Participant

    hmmm

    #99357
    Merandra
    Participant

    I love this challenge but WOW is it bad for my sleep schedule, my stress levels, my blood pressure. I was so naïve when I entered this. Everything aside, I am enjoying myself. An absolutely brilliantly crafted challenge, and I can only imagine the amount of hard work gone into creating this!

    10B is a monster though…

    Oh dear, do try to get some rest! I| don’t want worried/angry emails from parents/guardians! Thanks for your comments, we really appreciate them. Harry

    #99375
    The_Bombe
    Participant

    Merry Christmas to everyone for tomorrow!

    #99376
    Sofia_Dey_Choudhury
    Participant

    Merry Christmas to you too and everyone else! Hopefully everyone who hasn’t solved 10B yet (including me) gets their Christmas wish fulfilled of getting the darned solution!

    #99380
    Merandra
    Participant

    Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!! Wishing everyone a fantastic and festive day tomorrow!

    #99356
    ShaanB
    Participant

    Harry for the first clue which value would the telegraph be pointing to? because there are the needles facing upwards they cant pinpoint a particular value right?

    #99351
    Zeta
    Participant

    You made this so evil Harry…
    If you’re stuck on making something out of the case files, try running frequency analysis on MUCH smaller sections of the text. If something stands out, check the length of the section you analysed.

    [Again, please remove anything that is too spoiler-y at this stage, although I believe the info should be sufficiently vague]

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