DXP Survivor 2 Part IV (Page 2)

oh that braille is what I'm stuck on! DAT BRAILLE!

I'm stuck how he's interpreting the addition of hex 😛 Not to mention the braille and having to decode it manually ugh.

I bet in the braille there's something like "Multiply by zero... what is your answer?" LOL

I did say the challenges would become more difficult as the game progressed!

yeah still stuck on the braille part. Can't find any good references on how to read it because I'm suspecting you've dumped it into a grade 2 braille converter. But don't worry I haven't given up yet 😛

Glad to see you haven't given up!

Any clues? I'm at "1100" for the moment and if I'm reading it correctly the braille's pretty specific even as far as precise decimals.

The braille is the lock, for which you will need a key that I have provided you the means to construct.

The issuance of the challenge was delayed so that I could double-check my work. A tiny mistake could make a big difference.

How's that for secret agent code speak? 😛

Posted by robyn808

Posted by StoicGoat
I did say the challenges would become more difficult as the game progressed!

NO! there is difficult and then there is this shit!

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And there's room for them to get worse yet! 😄

Well my desk looks like this


and my chrome has SO many tabs about braille LOL! Still having no luck whatsoever fml

It can be done. I know this because I did it to make sure. Easy it was not, though...I'll give you that!

Still making no progress LOL. I have no idea how the contractions work because the words "question" and "character" is off by one braille. So this is like learning a whole language to decode that braille... sigh driving me crazy!

this brail... first word is 'character' second is 'question'

to break up the first 5 individual brailles for example

and/quite/us/o/[insert single letter] ch and qu respectively... unless there's more behind braille. No amount of googling prefixes and suffixes is helping me with this. Driving me insaaaaaane!

ahh ffs let me redo that because it's counting it as html formatting

converting it to ascii makes a lot more sense. Doesn't seem like contraction rather than ascii commands.

But still leaves much to ponder what it actually means.

Okay I'm giving up for the night so, without further interpreting that damn braille my answer is

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Pretty sure that's wrong but what the hell, can't make heads or tails with the rest of it.

Well sharing is caring.

Basically the information tells you to add all the 1s together from binary. Following that add all the hex together via rules of numerology e.g. 21=2+1=3. Add whatever number you get to the answer from the binary.

The braille part from what I can work out you must multiply it by 3.41005 or something like what cbf checking and says something about rounding blah digits blah decimals which I'm guessing means rounding it to nearest whole digit. Whatever number you're left with you stick a colon in between which will then point you to a chapter:verse in the bible.

The rest I can't work out but I think it means it doesn't matter what the verse is to which I'm interpreting there can only be one verse from the answer. Whoever has that verse wins immunity.

well I'm positive THIS is the translator used.

Type in the following:

"Multiply this number by 3.4210053 and round the product so that"

It'll match up until the next part where it's formed what I suggested before, ascii rather than traditional contraction. And then I'm convinced it's this translator because it didn't contract "and".

have fun because I'm all out of patience!

Basically using normal contractions going by grade 2 braille, most of it will make sense apart from certain things which I think are key to solving it.

The rest does say something about the Bible (even with the capitals denoted) and goes on to say verse and specific details such as placing colon in between the number. Few things that I can work out like digits and decimals... well you know one can only be imaginative about what it actually says. The rest like I said talks about how it doesn't matter where this passage comes from but whoever gets it wins immunity.

The deadline for the challenge will be 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds after my post that included the braille. I didn't really expect it to prove quite this difficult.

Posted by aquasnoz
Okay I'm giving up for the night so, without further interpreting that damn braille my answer is

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Pretty sure that's wrong but what the hell, can't make heads or tails with the rest of it.

LOOOL Only people I ever heard sing this song was the Statler Brothers! And I know that son well ^.^

here's is what I do know so far.... because I seriously doubt anyone including myself is going to figure out the braille lol!

the first binary portion can be written in hexadecimal as
53 69 6e 63 65 20 6f 6e
65 20 6f 66 20 79 6f 75
20 77 69 73 68 65 64 20
66 6f 72 20 61 20 68 69
64 64 65 6e 20 6d 65 73
73 61 67 65 2c 20 49 27
76 65 20 64 65 63 69 64
65 64 20 74 6f 20 6f 62
6c 69 67 65 2e

Which translates directly into ascii as
Since one of you wished for a hidden message, I've decided to oblige.

The second message already written in hexadecimal translates directly to ascii as:
Sum the quantity of 1's in the previous binary message. To this amount, add the sum of each of the hex characters in this message. Example: 68 = 14, 61 = 7, 4a = 5, 4b = 6, 4c = 8, 4d = 20, etc. Watch the pattern.

The third message is written in decimal and translates directly to ascii as:
After replacing the hex letters with numbers per the previous message and before you sum the hex characters, make sure you break them down like you would in numerology. 75 > 12 > 3 Once the hex is simplified in this manner, sum the characters and add to the quantity of 1's in the first binary message.

There are 252 1's in the previous binary message.

But I am having a problem with 4c = 8, and 4d = 20.....
as you said c = 12 which means 1+2 = 3 and 4 + 3 = 7 not 8 man... so what gives -_- wtf
4d = 20 nope....d = 13 so 1+ 3 = 4 and then 4 + 4 = 8 not fucking 20....—
anyways I do it like your saying and forget your example then I get the same value as Aquasnoz
252 + 897 = 1100

The sad part is until not long did I even think to use a online converter I had just got my old assembly language book out and used the table to refresh my memory on ASCII code and did pretty much all that by hand because I'm totally retarded OMG lol!!

Anyways, I beleive unless someone totally figures this all out that Aquasnoz diserves immunity. I have not the time to figure the braille out ....beyond what he has offered.... and it does not seem to have any easy translator online. So fuck me!

Aquasnoz got by far the closest and definitely earned his immunity and the other perks that will come along with it this time. The difficulty of the challenge was intended to be proportionate to the benefits, although it appears I may have slightly overreached on the difficulty aspect. No more braille - promise!

It's time to get your votes in.

0 - feb16aqua
0 - MellyMel
21 - NotYourAverageAquarius
9 - robyn808
0 - xdimplez

Aquasnoz's name is absent from the list because he has definite potential as a cryptographer.

NYAA - you did all of that long-hand?! Good lawd, man! Impressive!!!

*clapping* 😛

There seem to be some people on DXP (not playing the game) who enjoy puzzles, as they've PM'd me similarly exasperated. I'll leave it up for a while to see if anyone gets it.

Yeah I'm interested in how people are solving the braille! Come on put me out of my misery 😛

I'll post what I could work out in as sec, in a more readable format instead of scribbles all over my notebook

Posted by StoicGoat
NYAA - you did all of that long-hand?! Good lawd, man! Impressive!!!

Not Impressive stupid for not even thinking about a translator xD
OMG I feel so dumb dude hahaha

Yeah but that's the gist of what I was working with. There's a block that I have no idea how to interpret but I think it relates back to outplay, outlast, outwit or something along those lines but there's no good reference and I can't replicate results.

Basically anything that can't be read conventionally will make sense if you're familiar with coding such as amp; quot; and gt; but still doesn't make sense to me. Feel free to decode the rest but I'm pretty sure the secret lies in decoding that I left out.

I don't think any of my passages matches anything similar to survivor quotes lol.

HELP!

There is no reason to assume that all of the braille characters shown are necessary to convey the message.

Robyn, the votes are in and you're out.

The next two debates will be conducted in teams comprised of the remaining players. Aquasnoz, as the winner of the last challenge, the choice of these teams falls to you. Although you will not be participating in the next debate, you will automatically take the place of the person voted off after the next challenge, assuming it is not you. Let us know the teams at your earliest convenience. The next debate topic will be posted shortly after the teams are known.

I'll have to reformat the way I did the braille so it will be legible on here. I'll try to put it up later tonight.

Just looking to see who floats to the top!

Interesting!

Feb and Dimpz vs MellyMel and NYAA

So I'm guessing to stay I would have to win immunity?

Posted by aquasnoz
Interesting!

Feb and Dimpz vs MellyMel and NYAA

So I'm guessing to stay I would have to win immunity?

You wouldn't necessarily have to win immunity to stay, but that would be the most certain way to ensure your safety.

Do we have at least one member from each team present? Speak up!

Hello i. Glad you could make it 😛

Whether we hear from NYAA or MellyMel or not, I'll post something requiring at least one of the teams to make a choice at 12AM EST. As soon as you make your choice known, the debate topic will immediately follow.

The topic of the debate is pre-determined, but which side of the issue you will be arguing is not. That is what the proverbial coin toss that will occur in approximately 15 minutes will decide.

For this debate, each team will argue one side of a mutually exclusive issue. The two basic sides are posted below. The first person to post claiming one of them will have it for his/her team. The other side will be assigned by default. The topic of the debate will be posted as soon as which team is arguing which side is known.

Claim one of the below for your team:

Morality

Immorality

Morality

New thread momentarily...

I feel like I've started something