Oots #248

[Cheiromancer]

I think there was a translation up on the Giant's boards within an hour of its posting (39 minutes to be exact).

[sblock]Ry dgose du ecggqv rt oii wkssu-emksnrsb.
It means my speech is all funny-sounding.

Qmdg obors?
Come again?

Qos emdghmnu cigoeg bgy zggcu ytoseegfkoi mww dg?
Can somebody please get weepy transsexual off me?

Code - decoded
a
b - g
c - p
d - m
e - s
f - x
g - e
h - b
i - l
j
k - u
l
m - o
n - d
o - a
p
q - c
r - i
s - n
t - s r
u - y
v - h
w - f
x
y - t
z - w [/sblock]

 

[DanMcS]

Anyone translated Haley for this strip yet?

I fear I'm both:

A) Lazy and

B) Didn't pay attention to how it was done when Rangerwickett did it for the last strip.

You know, I didn't even think that 247 might be a code until I saw 248 and this post, and then I had to sit down until I figured it out. Fun!

For character-substitution like this, you can get a lot done by scanning for single-letter words, which are typically 'I' or 'A', and contractions, which usually end in 't', and the letter before the ' is usually 'n'. Unless it's a contraction of the form 'xy'z', in which case it's often, well, it's. Then you plug those in to the rest of the code text and see what else jumps out at you. Double-letters tend to help, and sometimes you can do frequency count of letters, but in a text snippet this size it probably won't help.

Having the context helped a lot, too. Like, I guessed that Haley's response to "I'll tell Elan how you feel" was "Elan? No! Don't you dare!", which was partially correct, and helped me get some other letters while eliminating the ones I had guessed wrong.

 

[Savage Wombat]

By the way, #248's code is not the same as #247. Just FYI.

I was able to get a bunch of letter's for #247 by guessing that one of Haley's phrases was "Sneak Attack!" - recurring dialogue helps a lot, no?

 

[Jdvn1]

So he changed the code when he saw that people had decoded the first so quickly?

Cool.

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Jdvn1
So he changed the code when he saw that people had decoded the first so quickly?

Cool.

Man, what he needs to do is do the same thing for the next comic, but instead of changing the code to some legible, make it so there is no code, but she really is speaking gibberish, but the gibberish has to be close enough to code or people won't be fooled. I'd love to see people working on that for hours trying to figure out the code, knowing that there HAS to be a code cause there was before, but there really isn't, and they're just wasting their time.

 

[Jdvn1]

Man, what he needs to do is do the same thing for the next comic, but instead of changing the code to some legible, make it so there is no code, but she really is speaking gibberish, but the gibberish has to be close enough to code or people won't be fooled. I'd love to see people working on that for hours trying to figure out the code, knowing that there HAS to be a code cause there was before, but there really isn't, and they're just wasting their time.

That's perfect!

You think he's that evil?

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Jdvn1
That's perfect!

You think he's that evil?

Hehe. I hope so.

 

[jdrakeh]

Thanks for the link. I suffer from periodic isomnia - so over the last two nights, I've read all of the OotS strips. It was a great way to spend two sleepless nights.

 

[Henry]

That's perfect!

You think he's that evil?

He did something almost as evil in #249 - Haley has ONE LINE. That's it.

I wonder if anyone will crack that one?

 

[DanMcS]

He did something almost as evil in #249 - Haley has ONE LINE. That's it.

I wonder if anyone will crack that one?

I think I got it, but there's no way to be sure since only two letters repeat. The trick is the contraction, which has two letters after the apostrophe. There aren't many words in english that are like that.

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Maybe you're right