‘Four eating Turtle unko’ ?
Being taunted is not a clue, by the way, Koichi. Just sayin’.
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Next 69 posts should be questions that he’ll have to answer at 5500.
Starting with:
Why doesn’t Japanese The Spoken Language seem to decode as easy as the other 3 book ciphers?
I feel like the implication is that we’ve straight up stated the missing keyword explicitly at some point, and I doubt it’s one of the jumbles of letters.
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yeah. I know. question is, what? I mean, we’ve tried so many things. Like, wtf.
I think all we’ve found is jumbles of letters.
@koichi is eGoooott one of the keywords??
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Shove all of the jumbles into an array, and brute force them all, I guess.
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Oh, quite. It’s not like he even used our logic, that’s just a role he’s playing. He already knows the keywords.
55 is r if you read down the page (English translation before the next Japanese line) or e if you read across the page (Janese lines before English translation.
Then the options are:
egorott
egoortt
egoeott
egooett
…
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This is not really a question to help us but how long did you work on these puzzles? How long did you test them? How hard did you expect it to be and how disappointed are you in our abilities to solve them 
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This is starting to feel like the worst game of Scrabble I’ve ever played.
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This. so very this.
Questions!! Ask questions!!
How long ago was the last-found keyword first stated?
Trick is to find one that’s direct enough that the answer is helpful, but not so direct that he won’t answer.
Or we can ask a question that’s both too direct for him to answer AND too indirect that the answer is unhelpful, like “Are we actually looking at the right page?” Because a “yes” would mean diving back into a clue we’ve already picked to shreds for keywords, while a “no” would leave us looking for literally anything else to find clues from.
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You have to think how frustrated they are with us for not figuring these out in a timely manner and when, looking back, they gave us plenty of hints. Then again, one of the book ciphers had 434 so they obviously don’t care about our mental health…
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If they were getting frustrated at us, surely they’d give more direct clues. That was my expectation, in any case.
In the end, telling us we’ve literally SAID all the answers is a pretty direct hint, whether we appreciate the delivery or not
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We’ve also said literally tens of thousands of other words.
We should ask if there are in fact, literally, really, four keywords. As in integer counting 4.
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Ok, so, there’s no chance that Japanese the Spoken Language is not the book we want, because none of the other nine books matches the length of the fourth code word, even if we could re-wrangle them to fit.
There’s no chance we’re looking at the wrong page, or even the wrong edition, because we’ve now had three confirmations, including one from someone who’s actually holding the physical book in their hands.
But… applying the book cipher exactly the same way as the other three books doesn’t work. So what’s different?
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Do you wear socks with your sandals/flip flops/thongs/slippers?
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