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Offline radio ratio

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Does anyone know what this says? It appeared at the end of the whatchamacallit.

Thanks in advance!
« Last Edit: January 04, 2009, 06:57:54 am by radio ratio »

Offline ewierl

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Aquarian is a very simple cipher, not hard to figure out if you take the time to write it down whenever it shows up, with a note about the context.  Very skilled amateurs can figure out ciphers that have no word breaks and no clues, this one is straight letter-for-letter, one set only.  The availability of known words "Mithalas" and "Home" give a big leg up.

This is actually an easy one; it's potentially a clue like "Home".  The only trick is that dots (which you've drawn as O) are spaces.

And what would it say at the end of a game, two three-letter words?  THE END

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Only problem? His word has more than six letters. Don't have time to solve it, but here's a good place to start.  :)

[EDIT]: Ewierl, you are absolutely correct.  :)
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Only problem? His word has more than six letters. Don't have time to solve it, but here's a good place to start.  :)
It's not a problem, because the circles are only placeholders. Ewierl is right. ;)
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Oh, okay. In that case, very astute observation ewierl.  :-[  ;D

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By the time I had saw that in the game I had known exactly what it said, and it's placement in the game makes it very obvious... (well at least to me.) :)

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I was confused by radio ratio's "watchamacallit." It was obvious to me too - due to the same letters at the end of the first word and at the beginning of the second, as well as the timing.

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Yeah, Chibi at first glance I saw that too and was my first clue... second being of course the placement and timing of the message.

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That makes sense. Still, I wonder why they said "The End" right after "To be continued"? That is sort of contradictory.

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Because it is still the end of this episode.