Timeline for The maze one should not enter
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| Jun 16, 2021 at 8:44 | comment | added | htmlcoderexe | @FlorianF that's more or less what I was thinking - I went off in a wrong direction early, and even at that point there were so many possible ways stuff could be encoded. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 18:36 | comment | added | Steve | @Chris it probably would be an off-by-one error - for some reason it didn't occur to me to try offsets before investigating various different ways to extract a bit from the "one of 4 compass directions" I'd recorded for each pillar. I'd probably have gone back to it later on that day if I hadn't seen the answer already! I'll see if I can salvage a partial answer that "shows the work I did" but of course crediting you for putting the final steps together next time I'm on the computer that had the spreadsheet I was using for analysis... | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 19:47 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2021 at 19:09 | comment | added | Florian F | Even though the encoding process is reasonable simple, it didn't make the puzzle easy. As I realized, the problem is that there was no clue for the decoding process, no hint at the method or any suspicious pattern to work on. In that situation all one can do is to guess how one could encode a message in a maze and try it to see if I used that. The possibilities are endless. It ends up as a "guess what I was thinking" puzzle, which is not very interesting. I added the hints to make up for it. But I'd say a good puzzle should provide from the start such a trail of clues to follow. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 18:44 | vote | accept | Florian F | ||
| Jun 4, 2021 at 17:53 | comment | added | Chris | @Steve: I've just come back to read the comments again having posted my answer (you got credited since some of your comments helped me understand the hints better). I've just noticed that your latest comment seems to basically be the method I successfully used so not sure how it went wrong for you! :( I'm wondering if you were off by one on your conversions? And thank you to Florian for the hints. It always makes me sad when a really interesting seeming puzzle like this gets no correct answers but no useful updates meaning I never know what the puzzle was all about. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 17:46 | answer | added | Chris | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 16:11 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2021 at 16:10 | comment | added | Florian F | Pillar: a strong column made of stone, metal, or wood that supports part of a building. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 16:09 | comment | added | Florian F | Technically a horizontal wall should count as a floor or a ceiling. :-) | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 16:02 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2021 at 15:35 | comment | added | Steve | @APrough I'm not sure where I'd start with applying that, but do feel free to investigate if you think that idea has legs! | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 15:32 | comment | added | APrough | @Steve: Is there any better luck using the encoding rot13(vs lbh hfr zbefr? Gur jnyyf naq cvyynef erzvaq zr bs qbgf naq qnfurf.) | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 14:07 | comment | added | Steve | @simonalexander2005 in the visualisation linked in my earlier comment, each box contains 5 "pillars". The answer somehow relies on the fact that rot13(rnpu jnyy va gur znmr pna or havdhryl yvaxrq gb n fcrpvsvp cvyyne. V gevrq pynffvslvat cvyynef ol jurgure gur nggnpurq jnyy vf ubevmbagny be iregvpny. Guvf ntnva erfhygrq va ovanel inyhrf orgjrra 0 gb 25 va gur obkrf, ohg V jnf fgvyy hanoyr gb znxr nal frafr bs gur erfhygvat yrggref jura vaqrkvat vagb gur nycunorg.) Also noticed rot13(gur jrfgzbfg pbyhza bs cvyynef pbagnvaf bayl jnyyf nggnpurq gb gur rnfg naq jrfg bs gur pbeerfcbaqvat cvyyne.) | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 13:18 | comment | added | simonalexander2005 | what do you mean by "Pillar"? | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 12:18 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2021 at 9:34 | comment | added | Steve | Some further possible progress (perhaps into a blind alley) was that I noticed that rot13(gur ovanel rapbqvat bs tebhcf bs 5 iregvpny yvarf jnf nyjnlf va gur enatr 0-24, naq hfvat gung nf na vaqrk vagb gur nycunorg, cneg bs gur svefg frg vapyhqrq "N S B B Y". Hasbeghangryl abar bs gur erfg znqr frafr jvgu gung xvaq bs rapbqvat) | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 9:29 | comment | added | Steve | This would be the correct dimensions if rot13(rnpu tebhc bs 5 vagrevbe abqrf naq gurve cnggrea bs pbaarpgvat jnyyf pna fbzrubj or pbairegrq vagb n punenpgre. Va cevapvcyr, rnpu bs gurfr obkrf pbhyq rapbqr hc gb 10 ovgf bs vasbezngvba ba nirentr, qrcraqvat ba juvpu nqwnprag jnyyf ner cerfrag gb rnpu bs gur 5 vagrevbe abqrf. Gur yngre uvag "Pbag'q 1" frrzf gb vaqvpngr gung gurer'f nobhg n pbafgnag ragebcl yriry jvguva gur tevq, fb n fpurzr nybat gurfr yvarf, rira vs abg qvivqrq rknpgyl yvxr gung, znl or gur jnl gb tb.) | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 9:29 | comment | added | Steve | Converted to comments as suggested by @bass: A possible start towards a partial answer... The hint marked "Cont'd" indicates rot13(jr fubhyq trarengr n tevq bs 3 k 11 yrggref fbzrubj. Vtabevat gur obeqre, gurer ner 15 k 11 vagrevbe abqrf, juvpu pna or qvivqrq vagb tebhcf bs 5, znxvat n 3 k 11 tevq) visualisation: i.sstatic.net/1nyKN.png | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 3:45 | comment | added | Dmitry Kamenetsky | I think it could be related to the extended ascii characters that allow you to draw lines... | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 19:21 | answer | added | Steve | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 12:54 | comment | added | Florian F | Maybe it was too difficult to start with. I will keep adding hints until it becomes solvable. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 12:50 | comment | added | Dmitry Kamenetsky | This puzzle is driving me crazy! It is getting better with every new hint. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 12:38 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2021 at 16:26 | answer | added | htmlcoderexe | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 11:31 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2021 at 19:47 | comment | added | Florian F | Well, it says it is a message. There is a cipher tag. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 19:42 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2021 at 19:39 | comment | added | AntsPiano | does the maze form a word? | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 8:30 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2021 at 8:26 | comment | added | Florian F | No italian, no latin, only english and a bit of general knowledge is required. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 0:00 | comment | added | JProblems | Is knowledge of a language other than English required to solve this? | |
| S May 31, 2021 at 22:00 | history | edited | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 31, 2021 at 21:58 | comment | added | AntsPiano | there must be some words or smth | |
| May 31, 2021 at 21:49 | history | asked | Florian F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
