Cryptos

[Jase]

i thought that the narodnik cipher was what we were using ... atleast where narodnik sends us???

[Cryptos]

Oh good, then all you need to find are the keywords.

[kuang]

Heh, yeah - we settled on that particular cipher a while back, and now are just trying to derive two keywords from that one hint. That's why I was trying more obscure angles I think I'm just overcomplicating it....

[Jase]

oh well ... really off to bed now ... see you all tomorrow ... i'll try to come bac with a fresh mind

[jack]

See you Jase, I'll throw you a hint if I figure this out while your gone.

[Cryptos]

Keep up the good work... the answers to your latest enquiry are, as you have probably guessed, the first and second parts of a two word phrase. You will probably be surprised when you see the simplicity of it.

[jack]

Anybody solve the resaurant yet? I'm still looking for the simple solution. Sometimes the simplest ones are the ones I get stuck on the longest.

[lab rat]

natural numbers

hi everybody.
i finally caught up with you all (thanks to cryptos's exams, i guess), but i can't figure out natural numbers. i understand i have to convert the numbers from the current base (and i'm pretty sure i know which base it is) to binary code, but i don't know how to proceed from there.
can someone give me a hint, please?

[pkticker]

Natural Numbers

Each one ends up as a letter, but you have to fiddle with many of them first before you can convert them.

How much "fiddling" are we talking here? They are all going to end up as letters? I'm wondering because I've been playing with this thing all afternoon, and this is the deal...

converting the ones with 2,3,4,5 in them to binary leaves me with too many digits or not enough digits to form letters, based on the Binary Alphabet I found online.

Of course, I could be doing it all wrong. As a singer/musicologist/librarian, I'm not asked to do much with base-anything (unless you think counting to four is base-five math).

You and Jack seem to have this thing sewn up, whilst I am lagging behind... *sigh*

[Cryptos]

Remember that many binary characters aren't letters. Tere are capitals, punctuation, symbols, paragraphs etc. There is a very easy way to convert te code from gibberish to binary.

[fred]

Hi. First time poster. Finally got caught up, but am stuck on 'an unwelcome visit.' Have park but all efforts to get a proper url.htm have failed so far. Is there a hint in the text that I've missed. A little help would be welcomed, and nothing is going on at the cryptos forum. Thanks.

[kuang]

Pkticker: The first thing you need to do is get everything into equal length chunks of binary. Work out from the way the message starts (and maybe from your knowledge of computers) what a common length is for a group of bits (binary digits).

Then look at the chunks that are less than this amount. Do you notice any correlation between the numbers that make the chunks up, and the length of the chunk itself? Remember that binary can only have 0s and 1s, so some conversions have to happen.

Click below for a slightly more cryptic hint.

the numbers you have now aren't all in one particular number base. Sometimes they just represent exactly what they are.

[kuang]

A little help would be welcomed

Try the following hint from earlier:

http://gamershood.com/forum/showpost.php?p=77709&postcount=1013

[kuang]

..but i don't know how to proceed from there.
can someone give me a hint, please?

Make sure you have the binary conversion done first, and then give us a nudge - the next bit won't make much sense unless you have that sewn up so it's worth getting out of the way

[kuang]

Nah, I'm stumped. I've tried a few different angles, and I think I'm either overcomplicating it or just using a source of information that's missing something vital from the one used to create the puzzle

Will have to think about it tomorrow when I'm more awake.