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35$\begingroup$ This is the most unique question I've seen here, hahah $\endgroup$– justhalfCommented Feb 5, 2022 at 19:22
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57$\begingroup$ Congratulations on reaching the HNQ list with such a title :-) $\endgroup$– Rand al'ThorCommented Feb 6, 2022 at 11:50
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29$\begingroup$ I legit thought PSE had an error lol $\endgroup$– Anonymus 25Commented Feb 6, 2022 at 13:39
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3$\begingroup$ @Anonymus25: I was certain it was an NBSP variant that wasn't being filtered out. $\endgroup$– JoshuaCommented Feb 7, 2022 at 4:42
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7$\begingroup$ I can't solve it; my mind has gone blank. $\endgroup$– Mr PieCommented Feb 8, 2022 at 10:24
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This question has
many instances of the character
U+2800 BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK, occasionally separated by spaces.
If you
count the number of consecutive copies of
BRAILLE PATTERN BLANKthere are, and convert it to letters (with A=1, B=2, etc), it spells out "YOU HAVE SOLVED THIS PUZZLE".
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$\begingroup$ How do you tell the difference between the Unicode blank and a space in order to count them? Paste into a text editor that recognises control characters, or something else? $\endgroup$– user9542Commented Feb 7, 2022 at 17:31
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1$\begingroup$ @HashimAziz : It would be more proper to do it myself, but for convenience, I use babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 7, 2022 at 20:27
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3$\begingroup$ I had no idea I could already read Braille $\endgroup$– AndreasCommented Feb 8, 2022 at 12:40
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1$\begingroup$ I decoded it (after reading this answer) with a simple Python program, but I'm wondering why the word "Puzzle" is always messed up? In the bounty message, it's "PUZR", and in the question body, it's "PUZO". What happened there? $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 26, 2022 at 15:08
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The cipher describes the phrase
Drawing a complete blank!
And another answer is
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$\begingroup$ Not an answer. By any stretch of imagination. $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 8, 2023 at 7:33