enigma #36

[enigma]

[Quick note: There is nothing special about the groupings of five except for the fact that that is how cryptography tends to break up strings. You should look at each set of numbers as one unbroken string.]

Do you need a hint? I'll be generous and give you 2.

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10441 02838

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40161 00410 02061 6;2830 40024 02818 14164 0

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02503 04228 14323 61038 18081 02840 02280 80244 20

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04363 03022 38043 63040 16103 63832 36300 84206 40;121 02602 2410

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20422 81832 10360 83618 28220 61840 50

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Of those left, find the one that is left, and that is your password.

[QuikSand]

For what it's worth:

Frequency of characters appearing in sequence:

0 – 34 times
1 – 22 times
2 – 29 times
3 – 20 times
4 – 21 times
5 – 2 times
6 – 15 times
7 – 0 times
8 – 21 times
9 – 0 times
; -- 2 times

[Solecismic]

I'll start...

Evens
The Beach; Not at Night
Brooks Brothers Product; Female
Juniper Drink City

(just separate the numbers into pairs, divide by two, and map to the alphabet)

Juniper Drink probably refers to Gin; Gin city? Maybe London.

[BrianD]

Brooks Brothers sells clothes. A female Brooks Brothers product could be shoes.

[enigma]

Solved.

Solution was breyer

evens is Stevens
beach; not at night is sand day (o'connor)
brooks brothers product; female is suit her (suiter)
Juniper Drink City is ginsburg

Breyer is considered the most liberal (left) justice.

[digamma]

I'll start...

Evens
The Beach; Not at Night
Brooks Brothers Product; Female
Juniper Drink City

(just separate the numbers into pairs, divide by two, and map to the alphabet)

Juniper Drink probably refers to Gin; Gin city? Maybe London.For the middle one, I get:

A Young President and a VE

or

A Young President an Dave

Looking at the answer, I assume this references Kennedy.

[digamma]

nevermind

[weinstein7]

Damn. 82 minutes. Pretty impressive. Not the hardest one we've seen, especially once Jim cracked the cypher, but still...

[mhass]

Yeah. Nice, Jim.

[enigma]

Here's the message the previous enigma left me:

The numbers represent a cypher (duh). They can be broken into two digit numbers, each of which, when divided by two, maps unto the alphabet in the standard A=1, B=2, etc. pattern.

Once you do that, you are left with five phrases, any of which isolated may be hard to deciper, but together will hopefully lead one to think of current Supreme Court Justices

Evens (Stevens)

The Beach; Not At Night (Sandy Day (O'Connor))

Brooks Brothers Product; Female (Souter)

A Young President And A V.J. (Kennedy)

Juniper Drink City (Ginsburg)

That leaves us with four justices unnamed--Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, and Breyer. Of those four, Breyer is considered the most left wing, and so his is the one more left than the others. "breyer" is the password.



I'll come up with something tonight, hopefully.