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[NJW2000]

The 5x5 thing could be relevant if it really was in greek, as at least one of ancient and modern greek has 24 letters, and with 1 for space, it COULD just be digrams corresponding to words which must be translated. This doesn't seem particularly likely, but still.

If anyone needs help translating greek, I can give a bit.

It's not as simple as that, several people tried very quickly. That would just be a substitution cipher with pairs rather than single letters. I'm wondering if it could be in greek, as their alphabet is better for that.

[Urist McCoder]

Part of the issue is that everyone wants the prize. We need a team of people who don't care about the prize or as previously stated share the prize

[Parisbre56]

I don't know if I've miscounted, but I'm pretty sure there's an odd number of symbols. That means that it probably can't be just pairs, unless the final symbol is to be taken similar to its use in religious texts. As in "I am the Alpha and the Omega" meaning "the last" or "the end" for "end of cipher" or for "end of the universe".

[NJW2000]

Unless the bottom was some kinda key, yeah.

[Urist McCoder]

No they can be pairs look at the link I posted earlier

[Parisbre56]

No they can be pairs look at the link I posted earlier

Can you pair an odd number of things? Because there's an odd number of symbols there.
Unless I've miscounted or you're suggesting part of the message is the key.

[Urist McCoder]

In not sure what you mean

[Parisbre56]

ABA

Can the above be an encoded message that uses pairs?

[Urist McCoder]

Okay I miss understood

[piecewise]

How close are we to needing a hint?

[Ozarck]

How close are we to needing a hint?

about eleven months.

Edit: I haven't had a lot of time or brainpower lately, but I am working on it again.

[HavingPhun]

How close are we to needing a hint?

about eleven months.

Edit: I haven't had a lot of time or brainpower lately, but I am working on it again.

I agree with this, I think we should still wait some time. This isn't going to be an easy thing. I suppose this might also matter to some people. How much would the prize be reduced token wise, if you gave this hint?

[piecewise]

How close are we to needing a hint?

about eleven months.

Edit: I haven't had a lot of time or brainpower lately, but I am working on it again.

I agree with this, I think we should still wait some time. This isn't going to be an easy thing. I suppose this might also matter to some people. How much would the prize be reduced token wise, if you gave this hint?

Depends on the level of the hint. Something very vague might reduce it by like 3-5 tokens. Something blatant would be like half.

[Egan_BW]

I have no involvement in this so I say spoil the whole thing

[Empiricist]

I say if we do have a hint, it should be the smallest possible. Then we continuously receive the same hint while being repeatedly charged the same cost, thus resulting in a situation where the prize eventually becomes negative and the person who cracks it gets fined for taking too long