Hi all,
First blog from me, and not just anything but a puzzle i would like you to think about. I thought there are other ways, more active, to learn about things, different things, by doing an active research and making your brains work yet harder. And being a big fan of all kinds of puzzles, riddles
and similar intriguing, curiousity-piquing and intelligence-requiring things, i decided to star posting puzzles here on my TIGblog. This is the first puzzle which i made out quite quickly and it might not have as much of ellegance and subtlety to itself as I would like to, nonetheless it is quite interesting and i tried to have quite some domains covered in it!
Please, whether you decide to solve it or no, tell me what you think of it! any feedback would be appreciated!
Below you will firstly read the guidelines on how to contruct the answer to the puzzle from solutions of six subproblems of the puzzle.
OK, enough of introduction, keep on reading and good luck!
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GUIDELINES: Each of six sub-problems of the puzzle should yield and answer, a word or a phrase. These answers must be remembered(written down) in order to be used to construct the solution of the puzzle. The "construction" of the final solution of the puzzle will use the so-called simplified version of the Ottendorf cipher(see an example below). The
Ottendorf cipher of the solution will be given and TIG members will have to first solve the six subproblems and then input into the priorly-given Ottendorf-cipher solution the letters of the solutions of the subproblems which will give the final answer to the puzzle.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE SIMPLIFIED OTTENDORF CIPHER
The simplified Ottendorf cipher can be used to write a ciphered message based on known lines of text. Each of cipher's key has a X-Y format (where X and Y are natural numbers such as 1,2,3...) corresponding to one letter in any of known lines based on which the cipher is written. First part X of X-Y cipher key corresponds to a line number, and the second part Y corresponds to a letter in that line. In so making the cipher, each X-Y yields a letter in one of the lines, which could be consisted of words,phrases,senteces.
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EXAMPLE OF OTTENDORF CIPHER USAGE
Below are the (three) known lines based on which we wil lwrite an Ottendorf cipher of some words. Note that numbering of the lines at the beginning of each line is just for illustration purposes and will not be considered during cipher creation.
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1. one
2. two
3. three
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In order to write for example "the one" in Ottendorf cipher based on above three known lines, one must use number of the line(first part of Ottendorf cipher) and the placement of the letter in that line(second part of the Ottendorf cipher).
the one =
(t) 2-1 (o) 1-1
(h) 3-2 (n) 1-2
(e) 1-3 (e) 3-5
In brackets I just put the meaning - a letter - corresponding to each Ottendorf cipher key based on three lines above.
or if we were to construct "who", it would be as following:
who =
(w) 2-2
(h) 3-2
(o) 1-1
or
who =
(w) 2-2
(h) 3-2
(o) 2-3
In the second way of making the word "who" the last letter "o" was takne from the secodn line in difference from the first "who" where the third "o" is taken from the first line.
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Finally here the puzzle numebr 1.
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An English mathematician, logician, author, and photographer.
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---------------Six subproblems, solutions of which will yield, using the Ottendorf cipher- to the answer to this puzzle-----------------
1. What is the name of one of the most learned men of all times who always described himself as "omo sanza lettere" (unlettered man) ?
2. "Eating ______ is a crime equivalent to eating the heads of one's parents"
3. The famous Latin proverb typifying Romans (and can easily typify a modern Hamas-led government strategy!).
4. O3.7.5.5.4.7.6.6.7.? (What's the ? mark standing for)
5. What has two pairs of wings, three eyes, and a three-jointed beak, and it can be heard from a quarter-of-a-mile away when calling its ladylove?
6. To what corresponds the hieroglyphic sign of 16 in the "Hieroglyphica" of Horappolo?
The Ottendorf cipher solution is:
________
4-2 5-1
2-2 1-5
3-6 6-7
5-7 3-4
2-5 6-2
___1-1_
Each column of Ottendorf cipher above, as you probably already understood, correponds to one word where first number(the one before hyphen) is the number of the
subproblem(1...6) and the second number(the one after the hyphen) is the placement of the letter in the solution of that subproblem.
So in order to know the answer to the puzzle oen has to respond to all subproblems of the puzzle 1 and the use the above-decribed method to substitute Ottendorf-cipher solution with letters from solutions of six subproblems.
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Response to the puzzle, when known, SHALL be send to me(mnopq) by a TIG messenger or by email at spider37503@yahoo.com. Please DO NOT POST any comments or questions on the blog unless you feel they will be of use for other TIG members.
Any questions, requests for clarification and other concerns should be addressed to me - mnopq - by TIG messenger or by email mentionend above.
GOOD LUCK!
