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  • 27 Dec 17 at 6:43 am #33883
    Anonymous
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    Are 7B or 8A of any help for 8B? I’ve solved both, but didn’t have anything standing out much

    27 Dec 17 at 3:40 pm #33888
    Anonymous
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    Can we please have some more clues? Possibly the first step or an explanation of what going on if you’re feeling nice? 🙂

    28 Dec 17 at 1:59 am #33892
    Anonymous
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    It’s so frustrating when you’re pretty sure you know exactly what’s going on but you just can’t break it!

    28 Dec 17 at 2:52 pm #33894
    Anonymous
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    I think I know what to do but it doesn’t seem to be working! Aarrgghh!

    28 Dec 17 at 2:53 pm #33895
    Anonymous
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    I understand clues 5 and 6 but don’t get the rest…
    THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING!!!!
    Does anyone get the first clues???

    28 Dec 17 at 7:04 pm #33900
    Anonymous
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    I am just about to let through comments which have been posted here over the last few days/weeks. They gave away too much at the time, but are ok now. So bear that in mind. Hope some of them are useful. If you wish to make further comments/hints, feel free I will be allowing more through from now on.

    28 Dec 17 at 7:06 pm #33737
    Anonymous
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    Is it doubly encrypted?

    28 Dec 17 at 7:06 pm #33739
    Anonymous
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    Is it a two/four squared cipher and then a hill cipher?

    28 Dec 17 at 7:06 pm #33745
    Anonymous
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    It looks more like a triangular hill to me.

    28 Dec 17 at 7:06 pm #33762
    Anonymous
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    finished done by first boundary
    1a 1682 1586
    1b 1437 984
    2a 1320 1240
    2b 1018 719
    3a 1191 1091
    3b 886 586
    4a 1028 959
    4b 833 665
    5a 770 639
    5b 641 463
    6a 758 746
    6b 474 89
    7a 509 492
    7b 360 73
    8a ? ?
    8b ? ?
    Just if you wanted to see it better, a bit hard if every single team comes up.

    28 Dec 17 at 7:07 pm #33826
    Anonymous
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    Hill cipher then words reversed? Didnt seem to work…
    Could we get another clue please, when the time comes? Or explanation to the existing ones…

    28 Dec 17 at 7:07 pm #33851
    Anonymous
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    So the text is reversed, then hill cipher? Or some reversed hill cipher?

    28 Dec 17 at 7:07 pm #33875
    Anonymous
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    Could it be… hill cipher???

    28 Dec 17 at 7:08 pm #33890
    Anonymous
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    Having problems with “the secret message buried there” , could I have some help?

    29 Dec 17 at 12:50 am #33909
    Anonymous
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    I’m definitely looking at some sort of hill cipher clues 3, 6, and 8 and also reversing each word but not word order. The problem is the frequency analysis says it’s either a 2×2 hill – which would be unlikely in challenge 8, and if it is I can’t seem to crack it – or there’s something else at play here (obviously more likely). I’ve explored a scytale cipher with rod size 43 but that hasn’t worked either – I just can’t seem to understand what’s going on!

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