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…We’re perfectly happy to go along with C being mapped to 無変換? That’s just the “turn everything back into kana” function key.

Honestly, physical shifting of keys makes me far more uneasy than just using the kana keyboard in the first place, if for no other reason than the fact that everyone’s keyboards are different - take the images posted by Masayoshiro and crmf as the perfect examples of that. If the Tofugu article contained an example image of a keyboard, then sure, we could go with that, but if we’re relying on what we can dig up with Google Image Search, I really wouldn’t.

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I guess if we go crazy enough, we can go down, and to the right :stuck_out_tongue:

Lets see with the 3rd phrase:
00LB269G
Going down:
PP. WYOB
going to the right:
[[/EUPN

And in Kana:
けけめ いなせみ

Nothing

I just checked, I think it doesn’t. And I agree with this shifting, for me it doesn’t make a lot of sense

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Yes, I would only explore guesses that involved the typical US/101 layout. And even then I’m not sure it’s the right place to focus right now.

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Neither does the only other article on Tofugu that uses the word “keyboard”. Though, I do finally see where @hachiken discovered that list of Koichi’s favourite kaomoji.

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First off: great progress! I have a big impressed~!

Apologies if this was mentioned already, but in the source code of the tofugu article where the next step was found, they tried to be encouraging to anyone that landed on that page but hadn’t found the picture clue yet:

Not saying that it’s relevant - just amusing. ^-^

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Durt Durt! :durtle_cat:

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Chop Chop!
Durt Durt!

Does it follow the same patron?

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From the terms of service update post in November ( WaniKani's New Terms of Service - #182 by jprspereira )

I haven’t read the whole post and it was posted roughly a month before the riddle, but they only got into effect a few days before the riddle was found I think? Does anyone know if the durtle ever answered?

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I’m officially lost again

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Not sure what you mean by “answered,” but that referred to getting a durtle badge (Alan Durtschowitz) for making a comment that proved you at least skimmed the ToS. ^-^

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I guess that’s what I meant… I only came back at the end of december and didn’t answer, so I wouldn’t really know :S Too bad! I thought the durtle might answer our prayers! Well…

Same, I’ve been randomly going through some Death level kanji in the hope that anything clicks, but nope…

I know… I’m just trying to make sense from physical descendence and difference between You and I

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https://community.wanikani.com/badges/128/alan-durtshowitz

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I wonder how much relevance that still has for us, or if that was just to lead us to the article aka #clue2 so type in the sense of typing and key, as a keystroke while typing etc and what we should concentrate on now is what’s in the picture? So starting from death… whatever that means :frowning: That’s awfully short

edit: but then again the whole thing IS in an article about typing, so typing might still be of relevance… I don’t know

Nice find!

I suspect that the comment isn’t intended as you described. I think it’s more relevant than that. It seems to suggest that some information from the article sources (because that’s where the comment appears in the document flow) will help us solve the puzzle. I’ve skimmed through all the sources. I thought the Google Godan keyboard (for smartphone) might be interesting because it’s a different way of mapping alphanumeric keys to kana: a different type, if you will. But… because it’s not included in the Win version of the Google IME I couldn’t properly tinker with it.

I think this comment in the page source warrants more speculation. I also looked at the source of the “How to type in Japanese article” because this durtle comment is close to that text as you can see in @Omun’s screenshot.


<p>Keep an eye out for Part II, where we teach you <strong>how</strong> to type in Japanese, using the keyboards you just installed. See ya then.</p>
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<h4>Sources</h4>
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<li><a title="View source" href="https://coscom.co.jp/learnjapanese801/index.html">CosCom - How to Type in Japanese</a></li>
<li><a title="View source" href="http://nihonshock.com/2010/04/12-japanese-ime-tips/">12 Japanese IME Tips</a></li>
<li><a title="View source" href="https://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/ime/">Google - <span lang="ja">日本語入力</span></a></li>
<li><a title="View source" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typographic_symbols">Wikipedia - Japanese Typographic Symbols</a></li>
<li><a title="View source" href="http://www.hadamitzky.de/english/lp_special_chars.htm">Wolfgang Hadamitzky - Special Characters and Symbols</a></li>
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So I decided to google these, and

B51BIQPGS206HD

(getting passed the WK forum images) shows a lot of Arabic keyboard related images. Dunno how relevant that is. The other ones didn’t reveal anything outside of WK.

Worth a shot, for sure. If you put the term in quotes, you’ll see the results are limited to this topic.
https://www.google.com/search?q=“B51BIQPGS206HD”

I am 100% certain that knowledge of Arabic will not be required to solve these puzzles.

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