Challenge #155: March Cryptanalytics

[TerryT]

We've received the following repeated transmission, but our communications channel is just so unreliable!
We think if we analyze each string for the most frequent character in each position we can reconstruct the message.

Yesterday we received the following:

  Htl2!
  ce+lo
  ve8lz
  HDlcF
  u8pho

We reasoned that since we received 'H' in the first column the most times, and 'e' in the second column the most times, we think the greeting "Hello" was sent.

Can you help?

[pjdit]

My Happy solution!   That was fun!!

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[kat]

That was fun :)

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[ponraj]

Here is my solution!

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[Inactive User]

Very Clever Challenge

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[Thableaus]

Challenge #155, done!

Very cool use of Iterative Macro. 

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Cheers,

[T_Willins]

Found myself wishing for a formula for Mode!

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I love Mondays!  That's the day a new weekly challenge comes out!

[Sebenius]

Could clean it ut abit but did not wanna change the flow from the first part where we did not have the row id.

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[etzele]

Nice challenge. Here is my solution:

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[Wouter]

That was fun! Here's my solution:

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