Challenge #177: Ham Hamlet

[olga_strubbe]

I followed the solution proposed to figure out the extra credit assignment - this was a tough one, I admit, for me.  I did learn new tips on using RegEx when parsing into 1-4 word pairs (nice use of RegEx!)  thank you , @AYXAcademy !

[ed_hayter]

This challenge was hell

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Strategy was to identify the most common characters a, y and space then try and reverse engineer some of the values based on word configurations.

I started by working out by or "ybyay" and also found S from a word that looked like "atessay" as states.

Also worth noting you can brute force the macro by trying all combinations as it does not penalize wrong guesses.

[gawa]

done

[Christina_H]

Fun challenge using trial and error to decode the message!

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[tammybrown_tds]

This was nothing short of confusing for me.  I really didn't understand what it was doing, even after using the solution for a guide.

[BSilverblatt]

Thanks for the challenge! Here's my solution:

[geoff_zath]

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[Bobbyt23]

I initially cheated by 'borrowing' the lookup table from the macro as I couldn't work out how to get the letters.

However, I then saw @Claje method of hammering through all possibilities of ASCII characters to the pairs and thought it was brilliant, so replicated that.

[lwolfie]

Once I saw the pattern it got easier.  I did start with the cryptography for dummies.

[ANNE_LEROY]

Thank you Shakespeare, you helped me a lot !

First part done;

second part; partial solution but readable.