# A Farewell Message From My Toys!

Remember the day when you grew up and didn't want to play anymore with toys?

Well, I remember the same happening with me. But, well, my toys were smart. And may be they left a goodbye message for me.

             **               **             **               **
|  |             |  |           |  |             |  |
*      *         *      *       *      *         *      *
*          *     *          *   *          *     *          *
*    E     *     *    Q     *   *    Q     *     *    X     *
*        *       *        *     *        *       *        *
* ___ *          * ___ *        * ___ *          * ___ *
|                |              |                |

**               **             **               **
|  |             |  |           |  |             |  |
*      *         *      *       *      *         *      *
*          *     *          *   *          *     *          *
*    P     *     *    K     *   *    L     *     *    X     *
*        *       *        *     *        *       *        *
* ___ *          * ___ *         * ___ *          * ___ *
|                |               |                |

**               **             **               **
|  |             |  |           |  |             |  |
*      *         *      *       *      *         *      *
*          *     *          *   *          *     *          *
*    D     *     *    C     *   *    T     *     *    Z     *
*        *       *        *     *        *       *        *
* ___ *          * ___ *        * ___ *         * ___ *
|                |              |               |

**               **             **               **               **
|  |             |  |           |  |             |  |             |  |
*      *         *      *       *      *         *      *         *      *
*          *     *          *   *          *     *          *     *          *
*    N     *     *    H     *   *    I     *     *    Y     *     *    T     *
*        *       *        *     *        *       *        *       *        *
* ___ *           * ___ *        * ___ *          * ___ *          * ___ *
|                 |              |                |                |


Can you help me find the message my toys left?

• you have a fetish for ASCII drawings, don't you? :D – Marius Mar 24 '17 at 11:54
• @Marius Not the way you have for Magento :-) – Techidiot Mar 24 '17 at 11:58
• Touche! Fair enough. – Marius Mar 24 '17 at 11:59
• Those are some nice looking radishes – n_plum Mar 24 '17 at 12:11
• @n_palum If those were radishes, this puzzle would have been unsolvable :-) – Techidiot Mar 24 '17 at 17:37

DON'T KEEP US IN ATTIC

The letters EQQX PKLX DCTZ NHIYT when

Rotated backwards in the alphabet by 1, 2, ... 17 spaces respectively e.g.

(1) E → D, (2) Q → O, (3) Q → N, (4) X → T ...

And so on until the last letter (17) T → C

And the toys were

Rotating spinning tops

• The toys applied a rot-n to each of their letters as per their positions! Nice work :-) +15 – Techidiot Mar 28 '17 at 4:11
• Thanks @Techidiot for this well designed series of ASCII puzzles - I've enjoyed the previous ones too - and your explanation above is neater! – Tom Mar 28 '17 at 14:47