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[Ozarck]

Okay. I have a direction to go now. More accurately, four directions.

[Nikitian]

I'd still say it's "rhyming matters". Because Piecewise rhymed before the first hint, so it might have been a 'zeroth' hint. And based on rhyming, the ending symbols could be evaluated for similarity, etc. - basically, treating them as 'rhyming' even though we don't know what they are.


Alternatively, baconian cipher, I guess. Mostly because I don't think that Piecewise would require us to have Medical Knowledge to solve this cipher (he's torturous, but he's also generous). Not sure about punctuation, but I think someone already mentioned its unlikeliness, so here is that.

[NJW2000]

I feel like punctuation is important, but like it would require just too complex a method for me to solve, so am probably wrong. No time, anyhow.

[TheBiggerFish]

Hello???

[Hapah]

Heyo.

[Ozarck]

Heyo. I may work on this this weekend. I think I mentioned having to get a new computer? I did that and lost my previous work 9been a couple weeks). so I might be starting from scratch, with a few hints and the memory of what's gone before. Gimme the weekend and I'll report on my efforts.

[TheBiggerFish]

*prods*

[Ozarck]

Any progress on the rhyming and punctuation? I haven't touched this in a while. last weekend was a bust for me because reasons. I'll copy the code again right now, and tinker some this morning, see if I see any patterns emerge.

Edit: I may have made some progress this morning. I still have a way to go though, but some of what I checked had a different type of result than I have been getting to this point. I'll look more this evening.

[NJW2000]

No idea with the punctuation, not got much time, but nothing I've tried has quite worked.

[Ozarck]

Just a note. I'vbe been tinkering with my new direction a bit. still getting a different set of results from before, but no apparent progress. I think I am more or less on track though, so I am not ready for a hint anytime soon (like, not until 2016)

[chaotic skies]

It's 2016. Not here with a hint, but a tip:

Do not try to prove yourself correct. Try to prove yourself wrong; if you do,  you can move on, and eventually figure this out. But if you can't prove yourself wrong, then you may be on to something.

Just sayin'

[Urist McCoder]

we know that it is not Baconian because it is not divisible by five.

[Parisbre56]

So, unless anyone objects, can I get a 20 token hint? I don't care about the reward very much, I just want to see what it says but am too lazy to put too much work to deciphering it.

[Egan_BW]

+1, No-one seems to be working on this.

[Harry Baldman]

A hint of 20 tokens! Regale us with your cryptographic genius.

I mean, it's probably nothing earth-shattering, given what we know already and what we've found out, but you never know.