Day 3 - Third Team Immunity

[MrBlarney]

You see before you a bunch of numbers. It doesn’t make sense to you. All it says in the instructions is “Decipher”

10124192153293

Additional hint:

Place Answer Here:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

[MrBlarney]

factorization: 10124192153293 = 2143 * 32561 * 145091

I think this won't be any simple kind of substitution, heh. Time to shake that rust off my cryptography knowledge...

[skid]

urk. Not alot to go on this time...

[devoutlyapathetic]

Argh! Maths!

[skid]

From this so far, I think we should guess... "Cue". I have no reasoning behind this currently, but I'm working on it

[skid]

There are some interesting things at the beginning of the string of numbers:

10124192153293

1 + 0 = 1

1 + 0 + 1= 2

1 + 0 + 1+ 2 = 4

I just don't know where to go from there or if any of this is relevant.

[fembot]

Gargh. Indiana Jones > Phalla start time.

Dear god, the numbers.

[devoutlyapathetic]

Is this a variation on leet speech?

Reflected though the horizontal I think we get all number/letters still.

[devoutlyapathetic]

...or not.

[MrBlarney]

My gut tells me that the answer might be seven letters long, dividing the number string into seven pairs:

10 12 41 92 15 32 93

though it definitely seems as though there is a necessary manipulation of the digits before getting to an answer. I'll sleep on it and see what comes up in the morning. I guess that helped for yesterday's problem.

[skid]

Or you could go through and create letters = alphabet characters based on the following numbers.

So for the string 271 Obviously 27 would be impossible, so the letters must be 2 then 7 , so 2 7 1 = B G A


10 1 24 19 21 5 3 2 9 3= J A X U E C B I C

10 1 2 4 1 9 2 15 3 2 9 3 = J A B D A I O C B I C

...Dont think this works either.

[fembot]

I feel more useless than tits on a bull on this one

[iamtheaznman]

Note: You may submit explanations even if you don't have an answer for it. I have very few submissions, so give it your best shot.

[iamtheaznman]

Note that "Decipher" should actually be "Decrypt". I didn't realize Decipher was that specific a word. I apologize for any confusion.

[psychocucumber]

Ok, since aznman has taken pity on us, we can safely assume that the answer we're looking for has 8 characters, based on the number of spaces underneath " Place answer here".

So, if we cut the numbers into pairs, we're left with 7 character. We're obviously going to have to take 6 pairs of numbers, and then the last two numbers by themselves.

Or something completely different.

[skid]

Ugh. I have NO idea what to make of this. Agreed it's 7 chars.

So maybe if we took the mod 26 of the results? (remainder after dividing by 26)
10 12 41 92 15 32 93

->10 12 15 14 15 6 15
J L O N O F O

Needs one more letter, maybe split up the 'L' 12 -> 1 2?

->10 1 2 15 14 15 6 15
J A B O N O F O

...apparently not.

[MrBlarney]

Eight letters, huh? That helps, a little bit.

If we need to convert the number into a different base, it will have to be between base 43 and base 72 (inclusive). Not really helpful, doesn't seem like the right direction. Hmm.

[fembot]

I'll volunteer to be the sacrificial lamb if you guys haven't sent in your votes yet. I am operating at a reduced mental capacity right now.