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There have been two puzzles recently in Hiro's blog. Here are the details, as copied from Heroes 360 Clues:
The first puzzle:
The blog post looked like this: screenshot.
The solution:
The title of the entry, "Bound by Death and Luck", and the line "To see light again, a rift will be chanced. I grow weary of hiding on the 15. In simple times, we used a courier to tell truth."
Death and luck are represented by 4 and 7 in numerology. Courier, as many of you know, is also a text font.
Copy the blog text into an editor, set it in Courier (keep the font size at 10), and allow 47 characters per line (don't break words, if one doesn't fit into the 47 character limit, move it to the next line).
Then, read the 15th letter in each line. Downward, it reveals this message:
The second puzzle:
The blog post looked like this:
The solution:
It turns out that it was a chess game. The resulting arrangement of the pieces clearly spells out "DL". Here is the Step-by-Step description:
* "I bring you a game." -- So, here is the game:
* "Use one part time worker at a time" -- Binary has two values, 1 and 0, or "off" and "on", so they are like part-time workers.
* "For every dollar" -- A dollar = 8 bits. We need to do something to every 8-bit group (usually how binary is grouped for conversion).
* So what are we converting the binary to? We translate to hexadecimal. The hint for this was is the Stardate (12288) – as many of us noticed, which is 3000 when converted to hexadecimal.
* "Add 3000" -- We now add 3000 to each of the converted hexadecimal pairs of numbers.
* Translating the resulting 4-digit numbers to text results in Japanese Hiragana. A hint to this was that this post was marked as translated from Japanese, even though the previous one was not.
* "The key is on the key." -- Looking at a Japanese keyboard, we can find the corresponding English letters and numbers on the keys of the characters that we found.
* "A picture is 5." -- The resulting letters and numbers read like a set of chess moves. If these moves are played out on a chessboard, the "picture" that is created by the placement of the pieces spells out "DL".
So, e-mailing DLH@PrimatechPaper.com (DL Hawkins), triggers the response:
The first puzzle:
The blog post looked like this: screenshot.
The solution:
The title of the entry, "Bound by Death and Luck", and the line "To see light again, a rift will be chanced. I grow weary of hiding on the 15. In simple times, we used a courier to tell truth."
Death and luck are represented by 4 and 7 in numerology. Courier, as many of you know, is also a text font.
Copy the blog text into an editor, set it in Courier (keep the font size at 10), and allow 47 characters per line (don't break words, if one doesn't fit into the 47 character limit, move it to the next line).
Then, read the 15th letter in each line. Downward, it reveals this message:
QUOTE
flower, contact me
Kaiton@primatechpaper.com
Send an e-mail to the above address, and you will get this response from Kaito Nakamura's address:Kaiton@primatechpaper.com
QUOTE
November 8, 2010
Hana,
I knew I could reach you this way. I was able to hack into the old
Yamagato server. Times may have changed but their security system is
still ancient.
It's ironic that my father's email is still active. I figured this
would be the securest way to communicate to you.
As you know we are in desperate times. I've finally found Molly
Walker. I will find others. I seek assistance from you and your
partner to provide a safe harbor.
I will not give up. I thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Safe journey and god speed.
For Charlie,
Hiro
__________________________________________________Hana,
I knew I could reach you this way. I was able to hack into the old
Yamagato server. Times may have changed but their security system is
still ancient.
It's ironic that my father's email is still active. I figured this
would be the securest way to communicate to you.
As you know we are in desperate times. I've finally found Molly
Walker. I will find others. I seek assistance from you and your
partner to provide a safe harbor.
I will not give up. I thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Safe journey and god speed.
For Charlie,
Hiro
The second puzzle:
The blog post looked like this:
QUOTE
Captain's Log: Stardate 12288.0
To Flower
Flower,
I shall bring you a game.
Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000.
0100010001110101010001000100011001001111100001000100111101001000010101110111
0101010101110100011001100001100001000110000101001000010011010111010101001101
0100011001001111010010000100110101000110010011110111010101001111010000100100
1101010001100100111101000010010011110110110001001111010000100101001110000100
0101001101001000010100110110110001011101010000100101110110000100010111010100
1000010101110100011001010111010010000100010010000100010001000100101001010111
0100100001000100010010100110111110000110010101110100101001001111010000100100
1111100001100101011110000110010011010100100001011101010000100101011101001000
0100010010000110010101111000011001101111011011000100010001110101010011010100
1000010111010110110001000100010010100110111110000100010111010110110001011101
0111010101000100011011000110111101101100010111010111010101010011011101010101
0111011011000100010001101100010100110111010101100001011011000101011101001000
0100010001000010010101111000011001011101100001000110111101110101011011110100
0110011000010110110001100001011101010100111110000110010011011000011001100001
0111010101101111100001000100110110000110010011011000010001010111010010100110
1111010001100100110110000100010011111000010001101111100001000100010001001010
0110111101101100010011010111010101000100010010100110000101001010010011111000
0100010011110100011001101111010001100101011101001010010011010111010101101111
0110110001011101100001000101001110000100010011110100011001001111011011000101
0011100001000110000110000100
The key is on the key. A picture is 5.
To Flower
Flower,
I shall bring you a game.
Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000.
0100010001110101010001000100011001001111100001000100111101001000010101110111
0101010101110100011001100001100001000110000101001000010011010111010101001101
0100011001001111010010000100110101000110010011110111010101001111010000100100
1101010001100100111101000010010011110110110001001111010000100101001110000100
0101001101001000010100110110110001011101010000100101110110000100010111010100
1000010101110100011001010111010010000100010010000100010001000100101001010111
0100100001000100010010100110111110000110010101110100101001001111010000100100
1111100001100101011110000110010011010100100001011101010000100101011101001000
0100010010000110010101111000011001101111011011000100010001110101010011010100
1000010111010110110001000100010010100110111110000100010111010110110001011101
0111010101000100011011000110111101101100010111010111010101010011011101010101
0111011011000100010001101100010100110111010101100001011011000101011101001000
0100010001000010010101111000011001011101100001000110111101110101011011110100
0110011000010110110001100001011101010100111110000110010011011000011001100001
0111010101101111100001000100110110000110010011011000010001010111010010100110
1111010001100100110110000100010011111000010001101111100001000100010001001010
0110111101101100010011010111010101000100010010100110000101001010010011111000
0100010011110100011001101111010001100101011101001010010011010111010101101111
0110110001011101100001000101001110000100010011110100011001001111011011000101
0011100001000110000110000100
The key is on the key. A picture is 5.
The solution:
It turns out that it was a chess game. The resulting arrangement of the pieces clearly spells out "DL". Here is the Step-by-Step description:
* "I bring you a game." -- So, here is the game:
* "Use one part time worker at a time" -- Binary has two values, 1 and 0, or "off" and "on", so they are like part-time workers.
* "For every dollar" -- A dollar = 8 bits. We need to do something to every 8-bit group (usually how binary is grouped for conversion).
* So what are we converting the binary to? We translate to hexadecimal. The hint for this was is the Stardate (12288) – as many of us noticed, which is 3000 when converted to hexadecimal.
* "Add 3000" -- We now add 3000 to each of the converted hexadecimal pairs of numbers.
* Translating the resulting 4-digit numbers to text results in Japanese Hiragana. A hint to this was that this post was marked as translated from Japanese, even though the previous one was not.
* "The key is on the key." -- Looking at a Japanese keyboard, we can find the corresponding English letters and numbers on the keys of the characters that we found.
* "A picture is 5." -- The resulting letters and numbers read like a set of chess moves. If these moves are played out on a chessboard, the "picture" that is created by the placement of the pieces spells out "DL".
So, e-mailing DLH@PrimatechPaper.com (DL Hawkins), triggers the response:
QUOTE
Hana,
I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.
If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.
As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".
For Charlie,
Hiro
P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======
I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.
If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.
As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".
For Charlie,
Hiro
P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======
Woah, I definitely could never have figured that out on my own.
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