What word is hidden here?
IVxVII IIxVIII IIIxII IIIxII IIxIII IVxVII IVxVII
Hint 1:
x = *
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
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Hint 4:
AMOUNTxKEY
Hint 5 (last one):
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$\begingroup$ I think you should probably have given the hints out an order of magnitude slower... $\endgroup$– Gareth McCaughan ♦Commented Jun 24, 2016 at 11:26
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$\begingroup$ I seriously think that the last two hints gave it all away. There was no need of the first three. $\endgroup$– dryairshipCommented Jun 24, 2016 at 12:13
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1$\begingroup$ I largely agree. The first three hints said almost nothing, the fourth was enough to give it away immediately in my case, and the fifth was more a solution than a hint. (But I have much sympathy: giving good hints is really really difficult.) $\endgroup$– Gareth McCaughan ♦Commented Jun 24, 2016 at 13:07
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De-Romanizing gives 4x7,2x8,3x2,3x2,2x3,4x7,4x7.
As indicated by the last hint [EDITED to add: when I wrote this, the last hint was number 4], this is a
mobile-phone-keyboard cipher where mxn means you press the key numbered n a total of m times
which as hexomino says leads to the answer
SUCCESS.
answered Jun 24, 2016 at 11:25
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I think the answer is
Success
Reasoning
I have no idea how the Roman numerals link to the letters but the word follows the pattern ABCCDAA and there are very few words which follow that pattern (one other one I found was "falloff").
Very cheap, I know. I'll try to figure out the reasoning.
answered Jun 24, 2016 at 11:07
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$\begingroup$ +1 for the right word, now figure out the reasoning for a correct answer :) $\endgroup$– Gintas KCommented Jun 24, 2016 at 11:08
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