If so, they’re not findng what they’re looking for…
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…we will all be ordered to commit sudoku.
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At least that’s a puzzle I can do.
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They removed that option. Can’t schedule update reboots no more. You can specify a period of the day when it doesn’t reboot, but outside of that it reboots whenever it likes.
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I think this has merit although I’ve just started thinking on it.
Assume we start at ‘a’ and that A in the code means +7.
Then the first A brings us to ‘a’ + 7 = ‘h’ and then the second A brings us to ‘h’ + ‘7’ = ‘o’.
Next if B is +8, then we get ‘o’ + 8 = ‘w’. That gives us ‘how’!
Not sure how to proceed with the hyphen and Q from there, but this would be a big coincidence if it’s not the way to crack it.
EDIT: looking further this pattern doesn’t seem to hold in later parts, so maybe it’s no good. For instance, a 2 should take us from ‘a’ to ‘l’, but also from ‘a’ to ‘n’, which seems to be a contradiction.
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A lot of clues in the other thread! Weird words 
Yeah I agree, I’m not sure the pattern holds up enough either.
It might just be coincidence. I just noticed the pattern and wanted to share, but it’s very spotty, it does not hold up in every scenario.
Well I thought I was on to something there for a minute. I was stepping through a polyalphabetic-type cipher with a rotated and reversed ascii set, and I got a first substitution that simultaneously solved A=h (how-to-…) and B=g (genki-…)
Unfortunately it didn’t solve the third one, and I couldn’t make a rotation that solved both of the second letters for the first two phrases. (A=o and 5=e)
| 0 | y | |
| 1 | x | |
| 2 | w | |
| 3 | v | |
| 4 | u | |
| 5 | t | |
| 6 | s | |
| 7 | r | |
| 8 | q | |
| 9 | p | |
| : | o | |
| ; | n | |
| < | m | |
| = | l | |
| > | k | |
| ? | j | |
| @ | i | |
| A | h | |
| B | g | |
| C | f | |
| D | e | |
| E | d | |
| F | c | |
| G | b | |
| H | a | |
| I | bt | |
| J | _ | |
| K | ^ | |
| L | ] | |
| M | / | |
| N | [ | |
| O | Z | |
| P | Y | |
| Q | X | |
| R | W | |
| S | V | |
| T | U | |
| U | T | |
| V | S | |
| W | R | |
| X | Q | |
| Y | P | |
| Z | O | |
| [ | N | |
| / | M | |
| ] | L | |
| ^ | K | y |
| _ | J | x |
| ` | I | w |
| a | H | v |
| b | G | u |
| c | F | t |
| d | E | s |
| e | D | r |
| f | C | q |
| g | B | p |
| h | A | o |
| i | @ | n |
| j | ? | m |
| k | > | l |
| l | = | k |
| m | < | j |
| n | ; | i |
| o | : | h |
| p | 9 | g |
| q | 8 | f |
| r | 7 | e |
| s | 6 | d |
| t | 5 | c |
| u | 4 | |
| v | 3 | |
| w | 2 | |
| x | 1 | |
| y | 0 |
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Interesting… I like the ascending/descending aspect here.
- AABQD010L76223CEGD72FI5DPBOJJMO+
- B51BIQPGS206HD
- 00LB269G
- D02315CPQAWDF0B~IL7KB1FG+Av
Why might the numbers cluster together so much?
010 76223 72 5
51 206
00 269
02315 0 7 1
What encoding attributes might induce such clustering?
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Koichi as good as admitted they made up the cipher themselves. What if they coded alternate words in letters and numbers? ‘010’ could be ‘did’, for example.
Hmm, an interesting thought.
I… don’t know what to make of it, though.
Though, I briefly pondered if something with meaning would pop out if I read them aloud. No dice.
I hadn’t thought of that… 
Letters and numbers indicating alternating words:
+++++---+-----++++--++-+++++++++
+--++++++---++
--++---+
+-----+++++++-++++-++-+++++
Inverse:
-----+++-+++++----++--+---------
-++------+++--
++--+++-
-+++++-------+----+--+-----
Spaces between 'words':
----- --- - ----- ---- -- -- - ---------
- -- ------ --- --
-- -- --- -
- ----- ------- - ---- - -- - -----
Looks like there would be quite a few single-letter words, though.
Yes, the one letter words would be “L”, “5”, “B”, “G”, “D”, “0”, “7”, “1” note that there are only two one letter words in english a, I.
Came across this page today, could be helpful:
https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/cryptography%20hints.html
True, though it may not be a simple substitution cipher where each letter is consistent throughout.
There aren’t many words starting with double letters (i.e. the AA and 00).
aardvark, eel, llama, oops…
So, either we have some unusual keywords (could be! 
), or the cipher is something different.
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I was also thinking the double character lines would be problematic for that scheme…or for any direct substitution scheme really. As you say, there aren’t that many English words that begin with doubles. (Ironically, ‘oodles’ is one of them. )
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“Oodles of Turtle unko” 
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Well did you try it? 
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