The question could be in the middle, beginning with something like, "of all the . . . "; or, "in all of . . . ".
I'm going to go ahead and convert this into two-number pairs anyway and see if I can derive ANY pattern from it. Even if there's an addition, then substitution code with an unknown key, at least I'll have the translation noted for future reference.
23,20 01,17 14,21 10,14 18,04
03,13 04,16 15,17 01,20 09,23
04,10 22,11 14,20 06,13 10,07
14,01 25,22 15,01 06,04 07,15
25,04 24,14 03,24 10,12 20,01
23,24 08,09 01,03 01,22 07,08
10,25 14,17 21,04 11,06 20,01
22,26 15,13 13,01 21,24 03,04
01,16 09,01 14,16 04,09 16,02
04,26 13,04 22,22 01,01 12,03
04,01 22,21 01,23 25,21 06,20
01,10 12,01 04,15 13,16 19,02
02,09 14,05 09,01 09,02 20,15
09,20 04,18 18,15 14,06 04,07
21,23 06,04 07,13 06,25 09,26
23,26 19,12 10,02 07,18 18,04
17,09 18,01 01,17 12,06 23,03
06,10 26,20 21,16 19,15 08,23
Something with Pi or prime numbers? TNT loves those..
@EvilMynci,
I'm not thinking it has to do with prime numbers, seeing as how a bunch of the sets add to even numbers... but you can always give it a try
@jcrboy,
I don't either..tried but no go. I'm just about out of ideas.
@dawnmomoffour,
Yeah, same here. I wish I knew...
I looked at how many times each letter appeared in the puzzle but found no pattern. This lenny has me going in circles
@Firestar624,
Ditto!
What program can be used so I can move each set of letters around without copy paste?
i doubt the first step is subtraction, since AA and VV would end up with 0's.
@dawnmomoffour,
Not sure... but there are some odd combinations in there (like QI) that made me not want to go that route :/
But I would just use copy-paste
@jjbuttcrack,
And I considered this route still because it could be a sliding scale (like -13=a, -12=b, etc.)... but I'm not getting any results on that front yet, either.
yeah -- i have all the numbers going down two columns in excel, and am trying all kinds of things with them ... but every time i start trying to decode back to letters i end up with nonsense combinations
plus this way, if we figure out that A=1 is wrong it will hopefully be easy to manipulate we we already coded into numbers.
unless it something like A=26 and Z=1. that would be a pain. but i started down that path as well, and didn't come up with anything. =/
this is getting troubling. and now 'so you think you can dance' is on, and i'm going to start getting distracted =p
Is it possible that we are dealing with a difficult cryptogram and that you have to figure out the letter substitution, then make out the whole words?
well, excel is telling me that the most frequently occurring number in both columns is 1 -- meaning A
isn't the most frequent letter usually E?
maybe we do have to substitute. and then the new pairing might end up with even numbers, and we can use the old formula.
@jjbuttcrack,
Maybe there are no numbers...just straight letter substitution. A =E etc...
well, if it's a straight substitution, and we make A=E, that really makes me want to make the first word 'when' (by making T=H and then Q=N).. but i don't know where to go from there.
but the spacing and general presentation Really makes me think this one is somehow related to the other one just like it.
I understand where you're going, but I just thought it would be more like TNT to make it appear to be the same type - then change it up drastically. Since I am definitely not mathematically inclined, I will work on the crypto-angle.
deal -- and i'll keep playing with the numbers.
with working both angles, Someones got to come up with something.
