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Quotes #5
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Difficulty: (2.99)
Puzzle ID: #38488
Submitted By: jazzmusician46 Corrected By: jazzmusician46
Submitted By: jazzmusician46 Corrected By: jazzmusician46
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In this teaser you are to try and discover the quotation concealed in the lines. The quote has been broken up into two-letter fragments. Furthermore, I have removed any punctuation and jumbled the two-letter fragments about so the word order has been disarranged. You have to rearrange the quotation and decide where the words begin and where they end. Good luck!
po hi yt ya ft wh oe mb he qe ak of po rh te ah je ly se ih la sl lc yi ln kh ew ru in dt ot eh be ae ya ir rt lh.
po hi yt ya ft wh oe mb he qe ak of po rh te ah je ly se ih la sl lc yi ln kh ew ru in dt ot eh be ae ya ir rt lh.
Hint
the meekAnswer
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.Don Marquis
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looks off to me? where does the qe fit in? marQUis?
Not only is it jumbled there are extra letters. Let's see if anyone manages to figure it out.
It really needs a better explaination what to do. The quote is 38 letters long, the list is 76 letters long. I dont get it.
It's one of Jazz's, I should have known. Very hard, I didn't get it, but not for lack of trying. Good job,Jazz. Thanks for posting.
Terrible. Give me a break!!!!
I get it now. I do think that the instructions a poorly explaining it though. For every two letter combination, one of the letters is waste, the other is part of the quote.
For example, the first four are: po hi yt ya
From these groups you take p i t y, leaving the o h y a.
That explains why there are double the letters.
For example, the first four are: po hi yt ya
From these groups you take p i t y, leaving the o h y a.
That explains why there are double the letters.
no way. how do you figure? i could do this and crack the dna code RIGHT>it needs something to base it off of. like a well known saying with only a few extra letters and a couple of letters already in place this is impossible. to difficult for even a college grad.
This puzzle would have GREATLY benefitted from an adequate explanation of the rules. I thought the bigrams (letter pairs) had to be placed in the correct order to form the answer, similar to a puzzle called an anaquote (which uses trigrams, letter triples). Instead, the bigrams are in the correct order, but you have to select one letter from each one and completely ignore the rest.
I'm sorry, but this was bad.
I'm sorry, but this was bad.
Bad explaination. Nowhere does it say we are to throw out half the letters.
You would think that before making it the teaser of the day they would first make sure it wasn't utter garbage. Almost everything in the instructions was utterly wrong:
"The quote has been broken up into two-letter fragments" - it was actually broken up into individual letters that were then paired with a random letter.
"jumbled the two-letter fragments about so the word order has been disarranged" - Actually the word order was not changed, once you identify which letter to use, the words and letters are in the correct order.
Working backwards from the hint and/or the solution is the only way possible to solve this, short of ignoring the instructions and applying actual decryption algorithms to it.
"The quote has been broken up into two-letter fragments" - it was actually broken up into individual letters that were then paired with a random letter.
"jumbled the two-letter fragments about so the word order has been disarranged" - Actually the word order was not changed, once you identify which letter to use, the words and letters are in the correct order.
Working backwards from the hint and/or the solution is the only way possible to solve this, short of ignoring the instructions and applying actual decryption algorithms to it.
I agree! the instructions were horible. If decent intructions were given I think I could have gotten it
Sorry, but this was a complete waste of time. Poor premise. Even poorer instructions!!!
The hint was great, and I knew the quote right away, but still couldn't figure it. Agree with other commenters... needs a better explanation.
the explanation was terrible. Sorry !
Good idea but I agree that the instructions are not clear.
FAIL. Explaination is incorrect, puzzle is unsolvable. Knowing the quote (thanks to the hint) I still wasted a while trying.
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