TLPTPW - The I just won edition

Mike Hewson
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AH, well removing the 'Z' 'm'

AH, well removing the 'Z' 'm' and 't''s gives :

NRNRNRNRwNNRNRNNRNwNNNRNNNNNwNNRNNRRNNwNNNRRNNRRwNNNRRNNRRwNNRRRNRNNwNNNRNNNNR

which screams that the 'w' is a separator icon, not being present either first or last in the sequence. Assuming that then parse into 'words' :

NRNRNRNR

NNRNRNNRN

NNNRNNNNN

NNRNNRRNN

NNNRRNNRR

NNNRRNNRR

NNRRRNRNN

NNNRNNNNR

Our first 'word' here - RNRNRNR - rules out Morse as there is no such alternating sequence in Morse of dots & dashes. Significantly it has eight letters and the rest have nine. The last seven words have 'NN' at their beginnings and so suggests redundancy there also, conveniently leaving seven letters per word ie. representing ASCII ? Not directly - I tried that and got nothing with English sense. Perhaps that first 'word' is actually a bit mask for the rest, so cue choices of binary truth tables .... 

The trouble is that the total semantic universe is not known. Now the code maker knows of course. What was discovered, by no less than Turing, is that there is a multiplicity of solutions for any given pattern in the absence of a decision about semantic bases eg. German. This could surprise many, including the codemaker themselves.

Cheers, Mike.

( edit ) Mind you, 'N' and 'R' do suggest 'normal' and 'reversed' ( a polite help/hint from the codemaker ) so maybe the first line is a cue for transposing the others. Sigh .... patterns .....

( edit ) Of course. The top line of characters and the rightmost characters of each word form the edges of an enclosed 7 by 8 matrix of binary elements. A given matrix entry will lie at the intersection of a row 'heading' and a column 'heading'. That matrix element must be modified in turn by said row and column headers along the lines of 'reversed' and 'normal' ie flip a bit or maintain a bit. 'N' with 'N' and 'R' with 'R' leaves the entry unchanged, 'N' with 'R' either way flips the bit. When this is done you'll have an ASCII encoding that makes sense within ie. a seven letter English word.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

Chris S
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Annie !!!! Gosh we have

Annie !!!! Gosh we have missed you, welcome back :-)))

 

 

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

Chris S
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NRNRNRNRNNRNRNNRNNNNRNNNN

NRNRNRNR

NNRNRNNRN

NNNRNNNNN

NNRNNRRNN

NNNRRNNRR

NNNRRNNRR

NNRRRNRNN

NNNRNNNNR

 

It is either her indoors snoring (7 letter word) or the chorus to this song Nah nah

Pleas send the toaster to PO Box 99, London.

 

 

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

Jonathan
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Double post, I'll have that

Double post, I'll have that Bahama mama previously discussed. And since I mentioned, I'll have two!

 

And that right at the moment I'm thirsty, how nice!

Chris S
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Be my guest, but Annie is

Be my guest, but Annie is worth a double of anything including a post :-)

 

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

KSMarksPsych
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I'll leave the code breaking

I'll leave the code breaking to the smart people.

 

I'll have a rum and coke.

Kathryn :o)

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Bill592
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Chris S_2 wrote:NRNRNRNR It

Chris S_2 wrote:

NRNRNRNR

It is either her indoors snoring (7 letter word) or the chorus to this song Nah nah

Pleas send the toaster to PO Box 99, London.

 

 

By Jove Chris has cracked it !

Hi Annie !

 

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Chris S
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White or dark rum Kathryn?

White or dark rum Kathryn? Usually dark rum is drunk on its own, so I'll go for Bacardi.

 

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Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

Jonathan
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Sorry, it's not that song nor

Sorry, it's not that song nor any part of it.

And saying you'll leave the code cracking to smart people is like saying your not smart yourself.

But you can still leave the code cracking to others and be smart.

Gary Charpentier
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upside down backwards

upside down backwards strike-through isn't a problem.

diagonal lines are.

 

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