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[Hypersmurf]

Also, if you think you know the solution ... should we simply put up solutions without explaining how you got it so that others can try?

Okay, I'm creeped out. The example sentence I pulled out of the air (because it had the right number of letters) is, in fact, the right answer.

Right?

-Hyp.

 

[Vorput]

Okay, I'm creeped out. The example sentence I pulled out of the air (because it had the right number of letters) is, in fact, the right answer.

Right?

-Hyp.

...If that's true, that is really creepy...

 

[Rystil Arden]

Okay, I'm creeped out. The example sentence I pulled out of the air (because it had the right number of letters) is, in fact, the right answer.

Right?

-Hyp.

Wait, you mean you didn't solve it immediately? Because I thought I was clever at 11:15 when I solved it immediately only to find that you had apparently solved it and cleverly used it as an example to prove you had found it innocuously, so I didn't post it. Am I to believe you aren't the genius I thought you were?

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Is it a sentence substitution code, instead of a 1:1 cipher?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, could you give an example?

I'll try and give an answer though ... to what I think you might mean.

Each letter in the expression to be decoded will be replaced by a single letter. The appearance of the same letter later in the code does not automatically imply that the replacement letter is the same. And, of course, there is a definite mathematic pattern to the replacement and not merely the DM's whim to pick random letters!

 

[Hypersmurf]

why it took me less than 5 minutes...

Yup

..If that's true, that is really creepy...

I picked a random sentence with the right number of letters to ask my question. Once he confirmed that there is definitely a pattern (not just letters picked at random), I deciphered it... and got my random sentence

Wait, you mean you didn't solve it immediately?

I didn't try to solve it until I got confirmation that there was mathematical reason to it. Once I tried, it didn't take long... but my initial post was prior to the attempt.

-Hyp.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Here's another example that might help other people solve it (because it is longer), or not:

SJDOF BPG DCHGFXH XKOP OQW CG GTLISJZ

 

[Abraxas]

Hyp's question gave me the formula immediately and as stevelabny said

Spoiler

If you use a common 3 letter word such as THE it won't be hard

 

[Rystil Arden]

I didn't try to solve it until I got confirmation that there was mathematical reason to it. Once I tried, it didn't take long... but my initial post was prior to the attempt.

Ah, okay I bet NLF found it even funnier than we did

 

[stevelabny]

That's funny.

I didn't even notice Hyp's little hint cuz I skipped the posts until after I solved it.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Here's another example that might help other people solve it (because it is longer), or not:

SJDOF BPG DCHGFXH XKOP OQW CG GTLISJZ

XJB OQW?


- Oh and hypersmurf ... play the lottery tommorrow.