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traveller1st wrote:Yes thanks G. Got there in the end.

Well done mate.
Makes me realise (once again) how fab ZKD is - and how crap and historically inaccurate - as usual - the Daily Mail are.
Once again thanks for transcribing that lot g., I couldn't (and wouldn't!) have done it without ya.

smithy wrote:

traveller1st wrote:Yes thanks G. Got there in the end.

Well done mate.
Makes me realise (once again) how fab ZKD is - and how crap and historically inaccurate - as usual - the Daily Mail are.
Once again thanks for transcribing that lot g., I couldn't (and wouldn't!) have done it without ya.

I do this stuff for fun... Plus, I cannot deal with an unsolved cipher that I know CAN be solved, LOL. I just HAD to know the solutions.
In any case, as I read, the winners(s) will be picked by random draw anyways, but if someone here wins something, that would be cool.

-glurk

Gareth Penn just posted a new puzzle today. Maybe you can crack that next!

Code: Select all

M16#SP6O@E7SK2I4QFE!#YPN*XZVNE7NE9SXQW95$7ASY3MAI5Y83E44N827&J

It's the first one of his I've seen that contains non-alphanumeric symbols.

I'm not really willing to spend even a moment of my time on Gareth Penn and his "puzzles" for a number of reasons:

1) As far as I know, not a single one of them has ever been solved by anyone.
2) He has never released a solution for a single one, even just to prove that they are actual, solvable codes or ciphers.
3) He is absolutely, certifiably batshit insane.

The "puzzles" are probably some inane kind of binary/morse/ASCII/hogwash nonsense that can't even be solved.
He would do well to show some solution to one of the earlier ones to prove otherwise. He doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, at least not from me.

-glurk

Ditto and "Hear hear!"
I wasted a little while on one of Mr Penn's - a bullshit thing, to do with tracing a bus numberplate online and yadda yadda (I forget how it went now.)
It was involved, tortuous and completely fruitless even when "solved". Never again!

This Daily Mail thing was a lot more fun - thanks to glurk.
Even though Turing actually stayed at 78 the High Street in Hampton in real life. Never mind.

Here ya go - I sent my possibly inaccurate answer in - with thanks and etcetera's and I got this charming reply:

Hi Smithy,
Thanks for your message, it is great to hear that people are finding the competition a suitable distraction.
Best wishes,
Sebastian
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Sebastian Rees | External Affairs|
School of Mathematics | Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences | Room 1.209 Alan Turing Building | Manchester
Tel: + 44 (0) 161 275 5812 | | Email: sebastian.rees@manchester.ac.uk

..... so even if the Daily Mail may suck, Manchester SOM do not. How pleasing.