I need to try to catch a few minutes sleep before dinner, y'all, so I'm out. I'll be back for a longer stretch later tonight, and hopefully we can crack some more of this one. Good luck with the project, folks!
Hey, can someone try turning the text into binary using the Bacon cipher and then using that as some sort of code for a picture or text? (Don't know much about computer codes so no idea what to suggest - ASCII? Pixels of colour like the 3p0 one? Literally no idea but binary is often more used than a and b).
Failing that, could it be used after bacon cipher to translate the text into Morse code? A is dot B is dash?
I'd give it a go but it's late here and I can't be bothered 😆
I don't believe the punctuation is to be included. Also there are baconian ciphers that start with BB (see below) so that process of elimination is ruled out. Need the a/b decode. Prob using this cipher:
Letter Code Binary
A aaaaa 00000
B aaaab 00001
C aaaba 00010
D aaabb 00011
E aabaa 00100
F aabab 00101
G aabba 00110
H aabbb 00111
I abaaa 01000
J abaab 01001
K ababa 01010
L ababb 01011
M abbaa 01100
N abbab 01101
O abbba 01110
P abbbb 01111
Q baaaa 10000
R baaab 10001
S baaba 10010
T baabb 10011
U babaa 10100
V babab 10101
W babba 10110
X babbb 10111
Y bbaaa 11000
Z bbaab 11001
Is Crumb giving a hint with the wordsearch comment? Might work if you laid the plaintext out into a grid of letters using each line as a row.
For the confirmed Bacon cipher, the issue is differenciating between As and ****. It could be 'scoundrels4life', as in those letters are 1 and the rest are the other. Or 'Beckett' as some think that is refrencing his quote.
We just need to keep trying random things until one works.
Btw, great puzzle, keeping us at it for days i expect
@KaseySpacey will you post the Bacon decode with Scoundrels4Life as the key?
Doesn't work
By key you mean "if letter is in key, bacon value = A", right?
I reread it too many times, trying to figure out the constraints in the plaintext to hide the ciphertext for a bacon cipher, and it just started to sound like a really arrogant paragraph to write. You can hide a bacon cipher in anything and he decides to write about making money off the farming grind in this game.
Hi all
I wanted to share with you a though after reading and following this conversation all day.
What if we have to consider the text nodding? The title is get the nod and as the gif illustrated it, it is a movement of the head from top to bottom. Maybe we should arrange the block vertically somehow. Letters by letters? Words after words?
What do you think?
Update on the dial and parsec table: I just can't find anything that makes any sense.
I'm really not sure why Crumb would include a 2 part dial if we were only supposed to use one (to find the Scounderls4life bit). Maybe it will come in handy later once we've found a solution to the bacon riddle?
The clue to the cipher must be either the Scoundrels4life or somewhere in the riddle itself. I tried using the letters "Get the Nod Ace" and also "Fail nigh and stem hope" (minus the and) and I almost got cad bane amongst the gibberish lol
The clue to the cipher must be either the Scoundrels4life or somewhere in the riddle itself. I tried using the letters "Get the Nod Ace" and also "Fail nigh and stem hope" (minus the and) and I almost got cad bane amongst the gibberish lol
Maybe a nod to Cad or his ship being needed for something... *cough* OG Falcon *cough*
Btw, this is the first I’ve posted since I started this thread, and I have to say that I’m impressed. I’m sure there’s more work to do though!
The clue to the cipher must be either the Scoundrels4life or somewhere in the riddle itself. I tried using the letters "Get the Nod Ace" and also "Fail nigh and stem hope" (minus the and) and I almost got cad bane amongst the gibberish lol
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...That almost gave me a seizure!
Failing that, could it be used after bacon cipher to translate the text into Morse code? A is dot B is dash?
I'd give it a go but it's late here and I can't be bothered 😆
Letter Code Binary
A aaaaa 00000
B aaaab 00001
C aaaba 00010
D aaabb 00011
E aabaa 00100
F aabab 00101
G aabba 00110
H aabbb 00111
I abaaa 01000
J abaab 01001
K ababa 01010
L ababb 01011
M abbaa 01100
N abbab 01101
O abbba 01110
P abbbb 01111
Q baaaa 10000
R baaab 10001
S baaba 10010
T baabb 10011
U babaa 10100
V babab 10101
W babba 10110
X babbb 10111
Y bbaaa 11000
Z bbaab 11001
Do you mean this method?
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/baconian.php
Put the blocks made by Pu55yriot in the decoder. Play with the options and it spits out the following for the different options:
Citaae
Cisaae
ZO
XN
Could those be something associated with the word search hint?
My first post, btw!
MTFBWY my friends.
Edit-typo on the results
No idea what this is...
This is a highly underrated comment 🤣
I wanted to share with you a though after reading and following this conversation all day.
What if we have to consider the text nodding? The title is get the nod and as the gif illustrated it, it is a movement of the head from top to bottom. Maybe we should arrange the block vertically somehow. Letters by letters? Words after words?
What do you think?
I'm really not sure why Crumb would include a 2 part dial if we were only supposed to use one (to find the Scounderls4life bit). Maybe it will come in handy later once we've found a solution to the bacon riddle?
Millenium Falcon
A new TB
And Y wing
Well done CG staff, well done
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But 256 is a great grid. Maybe we should try 16x16 with a blank.
Maybe a nod to Cad or his ship being needed for something... *cough* OG Falcon *cough*
Btw, this is the first I’ve posted since I started this thread, and I have to say that I’m impressed. I’m sure there’s more work to do though!
Could the password/ pwd be dunce ?
But hearing the word bacon makes me think of the rancor eating the Gamorrean Guard.