Comments on: Spy games

By: Adam

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:53:00 +0000

Woohoo, well done.

*Luminus scores a massive amount of geek points*

By: Luminus

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:44:47 +0000

the answer is not violence

By: Alexeon

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:54:56 +0000

I think the second one is a matrix, right? Sadly, thats about all I remember from pre-calc… hopefully Ill re-learn this stuff in the Fall…

By: Adam

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:30:17 +0000

I noticed a few people were coming here from Webcomics.com looking for an answer… and I think enough time has passed without anyone giving one, so I’ll do it for you.

I did say it was intentionally obscure though…

If you use the substitution cipher on the first cell, replacing each number with its corresponding letter, you get some junk (just like in DNA) followed by the phrase ‘There is truth in everything’… which is a snidey hint that you should just add all of those numbers together to get 596

596 is the key to the next cell…

So:
5. (3,2)(2,4)(4,3)
9. (2,2) (1,3) (2,4)
6 (2,3)(1,3)

If you were to plot those co-ordinates in that order in the final cell, you get the answer…

By: Melanthios

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:29:28 +0000

My sweetheart writes epistletory novels, and there are sometimes large chapters full of telegrams. Telegrams, he says, are the best fun.

As a side note, if I ever get text messaging on my cell phone, I will text not in chatspeak but in telegram shorthand. This should make communication interesting.

By: Adam

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:27:50 +0000

That’s pretty cool… like a fax machine?

Whilst checking up on the subject, I stumbled across ‘Numbers Stations’ of wikipedia… very odd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

By: Sam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:40:24 +0000

I learned about teleprinters and Baudot code. Which is pretty cool, because up until now I had just assumed that a telegram = morse code. Also people apparently were able to telegraph (telegram…telefie…) pictures. They had a special name for that, which I have since forgotten.

By: Adam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:15:12 +0000

I’m not sure, but I think all spelling is realtime… I meant the replying.

I’m not allowed to say exactly where I’m working at the moment…

I’ll send you some pictures perhaps.

The furniture would be very welcome.

By: Ben

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:43:26 +0000

What the spelling or the replying?

Where do you work?
I’ll order a courier to come and deliver some large office furniture.

By: Adam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:40:13 +0000

Yeah, I’m at work…. not working. It’s almost realtime.

By: Ben

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:29:43 +0000

Fastest reply eva!

Adam, you can spell anthing anyway you like.

By: Adam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:26:43 +0000

We’re not spelling it ‘gide’ anymore? When the hell did that happun?

By: Ben

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:25:14 +0000

*guide*

By: Adam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:28:50 +0000

Find out anything particularly interesting on telegrams?

By: Adam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:28:24 +0000

OK, first hint…

The first panel is a substitution cipher… but that is just a red herring, and a clue in itself. The answer you are looking for is a number… and that number should gide you through the second panel.

By: Sam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:26:10 +0000

Well I got the first part. And then I thought what with the stop and all it must have to do with telegrams but then I got sidetracked researching about telegrams and telegraphers and teleprinters. It’s a marvelous world, the one starting with tele- that is.

By: Wayne

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:17:10 +0000

Bah. Cracked the first panel then got stuck on the third being the key to the second, rather than, as you now say, the other way around. Bah again. And double bah. Would have posted yesterday but felt bad about spoilers.

By: Ben

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:34:41 +0000

I think I hate you.
I have spent all day looking at information laden maps, pages and spreadsheets.
I figured out how to work the code.
I had to convince my mind that you don’t think like I do about cartesian co-ords.

By: R.T.

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:44:55 +0000

You bastard.

Have you ever read my work? Serioiusly, I can barely tie my own shoes let alone figure that out.

By: phil

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:21:51 +0000

i also tried to plot the points, and a friend of mine used the third panel as the plane in which to analyze the coordinates (i.e. (4,4) = R), but we haven’t gotten anywhere with that yet. once i finish this damn theology paper, i’ll get back to it
good luck to everyone else trying to break the code, hopefully my friend’s idea about the second panel describing the third helps.

By: Adam

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:21:37 +0000

I should probably mention it’s a three-stage puzzle, with each answer acting as the cipher for the next…

…and that I’ve thrown in a little mis-information too… don’t want no counter-spies looking at my codes.

By: phil

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:43:30 +0000

there is truth in everything…
more to learn i hope

By: franzy

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:26:08 +0000

“Fuzzy Math”
Always the answer!

By: ChrisAN

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:48:56 +0000

The first panel is just a substitution cipher.

abmejst there
is truth in
everything
stop dkfuqh

I tried plotting the lines in the second panel but I got nothing and I have no idea about the second one.