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To solve this puzzle, note the key word in the text:
If we employ this on each of the three parts of the puzzle text, we can get the following:
So the reason your puzzle was closed is because it seems like you were telling us:
So please provide suitable attribution!! ;-)
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The eight patient names
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
Summary:
And finally:
Easter eggs / references:
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First, making sense of the letter:
Secondly, making sense of the numbers on the glass:
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Let's see, then..
There are three lots of two-symbol groups separated by slashes. The number of groups, and the fact that there are two repeats, make it a plausible idea that this is a letter-by-letter substitution cipher of one kind or another.
Working under that assumption, let's transcribe the message:
abc decf ge
Then, we do the only thing we can: we ...
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An incomplete answer:
I'm not sure where to go from there...
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This looks like some sort of cryptogram -- each symbol in the ciphertext replacing some symbol in the plaintext. "7l8" occurs over and over again, often at the start of a line; could it be "the"? If so then "7l858" is presumably "there" (could be "these" but that seems less likely) and then probably "l6&...
answered Feb 16 at 16:14
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The message says:
Method:
Why:
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It says the following
How to do it
In other words to decode
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The OP has told me to write down the steps one by one, but I must give credit to the one who did most of the work, @Pepper. Upvote his answer, too!
The steps:
The answer:
P.S.
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The plaintext is
Explanation:
Not sure if there's anything more to the puzzle, as the plaintext itself looks pretty cryptic.
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I think the password is
First Step
Second Step
Third Step
Finally, as found by Alaiko
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First of all, as indicated by the write_as_ascii() function, the message is actually a series of bytes (uint8_t), not 16-bits words. The words given are the combination of two bytes in a little endian format, meaning the least-significant byte is first (e.g. 5dcb is actually the byte CB followed by the byte 5D).
Moreover, the decoding function write_as_ascii(...
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Some observations that might eventually amount to something, or not:
Without the artist's signature, it's hard to know if the painting is oriented as intended. It could be upside-down. It could be sideways too, but I for one find it more aesthetically pleasing in portrait position.
When we do get it right side up, there's no guarantee that the information ...
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