Challenge #165: KRYPTOS!!!

[rmassambane]

Nice one! I'm going to try Section III another day!

[PangHC]

I have another solution for Section 3. Which also indicate by the site from JohnJPS

It also ease to encoded.

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After I replace all the Text/Character to RecordID it become like this.



After I convert to List. I found there have a fixed movement. which is Add 192 and the next will be minus 145.

Hence I create a list to test. I found another issue, it over 336 recordID.

After an analysis, it equal to the list when i used MOD( [Test] , 337) (I have no idea why not 336)

then base on this logic. we can ease to build a workflow for this.

Here my workflow

[JohnJPS]

@PangHC,

Great work - very nice and concise.  Mod(337) is a Mod of the length of the original text: and also, 192 + 145 = 337, that same length. So, what you've just created is a very quick/easy way to address any such mapping by using your trick of adding things up and the applying the Mod() function to specify the entire transposition: even if you didn't have the hint we found at the website, you could run through an iterative macro that tries 1/336 then 2/335 and etc up through all possibilities, and one of the outputs will be the correct answer.  A great tool to have in your bag of tricks. My second solution does something similar, but at first glance, yours definitely looks more efficient.

Again - great job!

 - John

[dsmdavid]

Sections I & II. Need to spend some more time to understand S.III

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[atcodedog05]

This was a great challenge. Need to come back again to work more on this.

[hanykowska]

hat's a good challenge! Will tackle sections III and IV another time (mostly because I saw some hints so now I'm trying to forget them and try again with a clear-ish mind). 

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[Jonathan-Sherman]

Challenge 165 is done!

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[AngelosPachis]

Challenge 165 solved. Really nice challenge, I enjoyed this one probably a bit more that I should

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[Jean-Balteryx]

Here is my solution !

[JennyMartin]

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Parts 1 & 2 solved!