15268730396752983028873037877312952898251630399865298251987245993029873127730076924579528253883028312898303995273127825262417312965272516303830372449752686302992536776251872526931279711489665267821478724177251699624576811268526783109824167925197245652924177251787241782538786302873119768312852668312686625268245686752824473216878253830287925175273039778250852831287672527245665263006725397251762529312811498
This is a simpler version of this puzzle.
Look for patterns.
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Your previous puzzle was deleted. Because I kept notes on my attempts at solving it, I have solved them both by comparing the two texts. This is hardly the intended solution, but a solve is a solve.
By writing the two texts one above the other I could see several common sequences which suggested they had the same plaintext:
15268730396752983028873037877312952898251630399865298251987245993029873127730076 ... 15276883039877526302763039878312652892518993039675262517245878302931278300788724 ...
I added spaces to both texts to line up the common sequences...
152 687303967 529830288730378773129528982516 3039986529825198724599 3029873127730076 ... 15276883039877526 30276 303987831265289 251899303967 526 25172 458783029 3127830078 ...
And inferred that the digits
6789were meaningless "null" characters. Replacing them with spaces showed that the remaining digits were in small groups.152 303 52 302 303 312 52 251 303 52 251 245 302 312 ...
I replaced each unique group with a letter...
ABCDBECFBCFGDEHGCIDEBCEJKECFBBLCDIFJEMCNKFGOCPKFGCKFKIDQECEJGCLRIDFCBSCEJGCHIFJEM
Replaced the letter C, which accounted for more than 15% of the text, with a space...
AB DBE FB FGDEHG IDEB EJKE FBBL DIFJEM NKFGO PKFG KFKIDQE EJG LRIDF BS EJG HIFJEM
... and solved it as a simple substitution.
MO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHTZ WAGER PAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHTZ
Eh, close enough. I corrected the plaintext and recovered the substitution key:
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT. RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT. 52 , 112 . 114 D 152 R 214 A 241 D 244 E 245 F 250 G 251 H 252 I 253 L 300 N 302 O 303 R 310 S 311 T 312 Y 321 52
I quickly spotted that an ASCII space with value
32in decimal was represented as52, which is the same value written in Base 6. With the system known, I recovered the original plaintext:Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
