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Emsmu
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Emsmu
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X4X4F4E5Q5 I4Y5 X4F4E5
P4K4U4U5J5
F4R4F4W5W5 I4G5 P4J5
X4X4F4E5Q5 F4 Z4U5 I4G5
P4K4U4U5J5
F4R4F4W5W5 J5 F4R4F4W5W5
I4C4O5J5 X4S4J5 F4R4F4Y5
V4K4C4O5J5 X4W5 I4H4M4H5Y5
V4K4C4O5J5 Y5 V4K4C4O5J5
V4
V4K4C4O5J5 U4W5 I4H4O5
I4Z4S4H5G5 P4 I4Z4S4H5G5
P4F4W5W5 I4C4Q5 I4Z4S4J5
F4R4F4W5W5 F4 H4O5 I4Y5
T4
K4C4O5J5 X4S4 K4
G5 Q5 I4Z4S4H5G5
Q5 J5 X4X4F4E5Q5
This is the writing on the photo. Play with it however you'd like!
Zvvtsabe'w mza vcsvozbcpf - Dyg zw tsmgzrh 113-119 - Mitew, DOw yusn Yip Fvmpegj - Rp wmyk - Cprxrxi I vxrv ulfev Xpa - Lnivz!
This is the writing along the bottom of the page. Im pretty sure Lnivz! translates to "Hurry!" but hopefully someone will be able to decode the message.
From Zipp's previous clues I think its safe to say that the guitar tabs will probobly give us a hint or a key to solve that mess.
Lg15panda followed the guitar tablature and found the it says
"STAFF G"
Possibly something to do with treble, or G, clef.
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deagol
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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Cipher is regular vigenere, key=treble, decodes to:
Gershwin's low cloudville - Sun is shining 113-119 - Beans, CDs from New Orleans - No lifts - Beneath a rear table top - Hurry!
wow huge images! can they be reduced? and links to the big'uns posted? |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Credit goes to QtheC:
Decoding the letter-number code the same way gives this:
| Quote: | E4G4B4D5F5 E4F5 G4B4D5
E4G4B4D5F5
E4G4B4D5F5 E4F5 E4F5
E4G4B4D5F5 B4 G4D5 E4F5
E4G4B4D5F5
E4G4B4D5F5 F5 E4G4B4D5F5
E4B4D5F5 E4B4F5 E4G4B4F5
E4G4B4D5F5 E4F5 E4G4B4D5F5
E4G4B4D5F5 F5 E4G4B4D5F5
C4
E4G4B4D5F5 B4F5 E4G4D5
E4G4B4D5F5 E4 E4G4B4D5F5
E4B4D5F5 E4B4F5 E4G4B4F5
E4G4B4D5F5 B4 G4D5 E4F5
C4
G4B4D5F5 E4B4 G4
F5 F5 E4G4B4D5F5
F5 F5 E4G4B4D5F5 |
These are definitely musical notes. There might be a typo or some other glitch in the last few lines as it messes it up.
ETA: fixed the typo and missing line.
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QtheC
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Emsmu wrote: | X4X4F4E5O5 I4Y5 X4F4E5
P4K4U4U5J5
F4R4F4W5W5 I4G5 P4J5
X4X4F4E5Q5 F4 Z4U5 I4G5
P4K4U4U5J5
F4R4F4W5W5 J5 F4R4F4W5W5
I4C4O5J5 X4S4J5 F4R4F4Y5
V4K4C4O5J5 X4W5 I4H4M4H5Y5
V4K4C4O5J5 Y5 V4K4C4O5J5
V4
V4K4C4O5J5 U4W5 I4H4O5
I4Z4S4H5G5 P4 I4Z4S4H5G5
--------------------------------------> P4F4W5W5 I4C4Q5 I4Z4S4J5
F4R4F4W5W5 F4 H4O5 I4Y5
T4
K4C4O5J5 X4S4 K4
G5 Q5 I4Z4S4H5G5
Q5 J5 X4X4F4E5Q5
This is the writing on the photo. Play with it however you'd like!
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Okay, I counted the letter number pairs. There are 23 distinct letter-number pairs, and the only letters that appear with both 4 and 5 are H and U. There are no A, B, D, L, N.
Here is the same code, dropping all the 4's and 5's, and typing
H4 as h, U4 as u, and all other letters as capital: | Quote: | XXFEQ IY XFE
PKuUJ
FRFWW IG PJ
XXFEQ F ZU IG
PKuUJ
FRFWW J FRFWW
ICOJ XSJ FRFY
VKCOJ XW IhMHY
V
VKCOJ uW IhO
IZSHG P IZSHG
PFWW ICQ IZSJ
FRFWW F hO IY
T
KCOJ XS K
G Q IZSHG
Q J XXFEQ |
Plugging into Vigenere cipher http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere.php and decoding with "Treble" as the key, I get this: | Quote: | EGBDF EF GBD
EGbDF
EGBDF EF EF
EGBDF B GD EF
EGbDF
EGBDF F EGBDF
EBDF EBF EGBF
EGBDF EF EgBDF
E
RJRKQ dS HwK
PIOGV L PIOGV
LMFS HRM PIOI
UNMFS E wK PH
P
JRKQ GO J
V M PIOGV
M Q GTETM |
Notice the repetition in the first few lines... looks close to a solution perhaps, but needs checking.
As Perky notes, EGBDF = the lines on a treble clef ("Every Good Boy Does Fine"), so as Deagol notes, the 4's and 5's may indicate octave.
Corrected Code: | Quote: | X4X4F4E5Q5 I4Y5 X4F4E5
P4K4U4U5J5
F4R4F4W5W5 I4G5 P4J5
X4X4F4E5Q5 F4 Z4U5 I4G5
P4K4U4U5J5
F4R4F4W5W5 J5 F4R4F4W5W5
I4C4O5J5 X4S4J5 F4R4F4Y5
V4K4C4O5J5 X4W5 I4H4M4H5Y5
V4K4C4O5J5 Y5 V4K4C4O5J5
V4
V4K4C4O5J5 U4W5 I4H4O5
I4Z4S4H5G5 P4 I4Z4S4H5G5
P4F4W5W5 I4C4Q5 I4Z4S4J5
F4R4F4W5W5 F4 H4O5 I4Y5
T4
K4C4O5J5 X4S4 K4
G5 Q5 I4Z4S4H5G5
Q5 J5 X4X4F4E5Q5 |
decoded version using Vigenere with key treble is found two posts below...
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Brooklynxman
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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egbdfefgbdegbdfegbdfefefegbdfbgdefegbdfegbdffegbdfebdfebfegbfegbdfefegbdfegbdffegbdfcegbdfbfegdegbdfeegbdfebdfebfegbfegbdfbgdefcgbdfebgffegbdfffegbdf
acidfingers fixed the typo and got that, credit is his not mine, just relaying for deagol
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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Here you go, formatted nicely and all
| Code: | E4G4B4D5F5 E4F5 G4B4D5
E4G4B4D5F5
E4G4B4D5F5 E4F5 E4F5
E4G4B4D5F5 B4 G4D5 E4F5
E4G4B4D5F5
E4G4B4D5F5 F5 E4G4B4D5F5
E4B4D5F5 E4B4F5 E4G4B4F5
E4G4B4D5F5 E4F5 E4G4B4D5F5
E4G4B4D5F5 F5 E4G4B4D5F5
C4
E4G4B4D5F5 B4F5 E4G4D5
E4G4B4D5F5 E4 E4G4B4D5F5
E4B4D5F5 E4B4F5 E4G4B4F5
E4G4B4D5F5 B4 G4D5 E4F5
C4
G4B4D5F5 E4B4 G4
F5 F5 E4G4B4D5F5
F5 F5 E4G4B4D5F5 |
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I'm stumped. That repeating line EGBDF sounds similar to the main line in Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" but it's a little off. The rest of the code is too repetitive to be any song, IMO.
Beautiful rendition by Keith Jarret:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3D8Ri84hmw
Wait 'till after the intro for the line around 1:20, or just enjoy the freaking song.
Midi file of the code, thanks to acidfingers:
http://www.acidfingers.com/hosted/codesong.mid
The only thing I can think of is to turn it into numbers based on the position of the notes in the treble staff since they all fall on a line (C=0 E=1 G=2 B=3 D=4 F=5).
| Code: | 12345 15 234
12345
12345 15 15
12345 3 24 15
12345
12345 5 12345
1345 135 1235
12345 15 12345
12345 5 12345
0
12345 35 124
12345 1 12345
1345 135 1235
12345 3 24 15
0
2345 13 2
5 5 12345
5 5 12345
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For some odd reason a game of hopscotch comes to mind. I can't really explain why. |
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impulse
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Wow a musical code! I should be able to break that one. Not now, i'm way too drunk to go through it. Anyway, these repeating lines are really disturbing. This is not a simple playfair cipher or anything of this kind I guess. It just looks like a simple chord progression to me right now. Frequency analysis doesn't give anything. Have you tried the square approach Deagol?
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| deagol wrote: | Cipher is regular vigenere, key=treble, decodes to:
Gershwin's low cloudville - Sun is shining 113-119 - Beans, CDs from New Orleans - No lifts - Beneath a rear table top - Hurry!
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In chat we're working on a strong theory that this drop is in London. SUPER SPECIAL THANKS TO LOOBY AND ZANE FOR THEIR HELP...GO BRITS!
George and Ira Gershwin wrote a music for a movie called "Damsel in Distress" which stared Frank Sinatra. It included a song called "Foggy Day"
Lyrics:
A foggy day, in London town
It had me low, and it had me down
I viewed the morning, with much alarm
The British Museum, had lost its charm
How long I wondered, could this thing last
But the age of miracles, it hadn't past
And suddenly, I saw you standing right there
And in foggy London town, the sun was shining everywhere
"low cloudville" is probably a reference to London.
Also, elevators are called "lifts" in London.
Now we're looking at possible locations for the drop. One I found was the 12 Bars Club: http://www.12barclub.com/
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| And acording to the site there are no lifts to the basement i belive we said |
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JenniPowell
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:39 am Post subject: |
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Very, very strong possibility that this is the place:
http://www.myspace.com/raysjazz
Ray's Jazz in on the first floor ("no lifts") of a bookstore located at 113-119 Charing cross road. Ray's could be referring to sun rays ("sun is shining").
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First floor is up one level in UK! 
But, maybe clue just means we shouldnt' take the lift?
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are you guys sure its in the uk?
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deagol
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| JenniPowell wrote: | "Foggy Day"
Lyrics:
A foggy day, in London town
It had me low, and it had me down
I viewed the morning, with much alarm
The British Museum, had lost its charm
How long I wondered, could this thing last
But the age of miracles, it hadn't past
And suddenly, I saw you standing right there
And in foggy London town, the sun was shining everywhere
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Another great song. Can't go wrong with Sarah Vaughan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66jAl9fsGI |
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