Thursday 15 July 2010

The final clue

CO YHQ RFMCD RDDM LSR WCDD LRGA YHQ M IMNR OKHF MGCPM’L GHPREHHB. YHQ GRRA PH IKCGP PSCL MGA EKCGN CP PH PSR DHTMPCHG MP PSR PCFR NCVRG CG PSR HPSRK IQZZDRL. CO YHQ TMGGHP FMBR PSCL, IDRMLR FMBR LQKR PH THFFQGCTMPR WCPS HPSRKL PH FMBR CP SMIIRG. YHQ WCDD KRTRCVR OQKPSRK CGLPKQTPCHGL MP PSR DHTMPCHG. ER VCNCDMGP.

11 comments:

Ross W said...

This is what it says:

If you email Ella she will send you a page from Anita's notebook you need to print this and bring it to the location at the time given in the other puzzles if you cannot make this please make sure to communicate with others to make it happen you will receive further instructions at the location. Be vigilant.

I'm annoyed as I'm actually working at the Comic-con between 3-4, so I might try to drop a shift. Any idea who Ella is?

Ben Lowdon said...

Nice one. Any idea about this code, I thought maybe it was a caeser cipher, but it doesn't seem to be..

Ben Lowdon said...

Thanks Ross. How did you work that out?

Ross W said...

I originally guessed that it was a moving cipher, or maybe caesar, but the letter distribution was wrong, and I couldn't get any sensible words from it.

The however, with the lack of vowels and the fact that there are lots of doubled letters, I guessed it was similar to caesar. I ended up brute forcing the first sentence, and then finishing off the rest with a silly little thing I coded. It wasn't too hard when the first two words were done, and the apostrophe'd word must have an s at the end, so it wasn't too bad.

It's just a simple letter replacement cipher C->I, O->F, Y->Y, for example.

I'm guessing there's an easier way, as we've also been given an image of a metatron, and I'm guessing it can be used.

Brute force FTW!

Ross W said...

Oops, sorry. Me = Ross.

Also, it looks like I can't go.
Carry on the fight without meeeeeee...

Unknown said...

ellamolloyprivate@gmail.com

Megan said...

has anyone else got a response from ella yet?

Ross W said...

I've gotten a response. I'm sending an agent in my stead; a beardy agent.

Who else is actually going to the meeting place?

Unknown said...

I got a response. I'll be going tomorrow.

Bonnie Parker said...

How did it go?

Steve M said...

Sorry I missed this - I was otherwise engaged on Sat.
The image in the final clue is Metatron's Cube; you can use this (ignoring repeated letters) to generate the substitution cipher:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
METARONSCUBDFGHIJKLPQVWXYZ

(just adding the unused letters after the key word/phrase)