Who is brilliant?

[Ally]

Spoiler: I'm not. Since there have been a few cryptography threads, I thought I'd try out an interesting side effect of my experimental PRNG on here. (Important - the PRNG is not relevant in any way.)

Here's your reference dictionary.

Spoiler: Reference

0=h, 1=o, 2=l, 3=y, 4=s, 5=i, 6=t, 7=u, 8=a, 9=r, 10=e, 11=b, 12=n, 13=w, 14=k, 15=d, 16=c, 17=p, 18=m, 19=g, 20=v

Here's your message.

Spoiler: Message

0,0,1,3 | -13,-4,1,6 | 8,6,7 | 0,1,10 | -39,-31,-23,-16,-12,-11,-10,-6,6 | 5 | -19,-10,-6,6 | -5,1 | 26,18,12,14 | -5,1 | 8,6,7 | 11,12 | -299,-165,-75,-25,-2,6,15 | 1,18 | -8,10 | -16,-7,-6,0 | 16,10,10 | -48,-19,-5,10 | -22,-2,6,15 | 47,5,-9,-10,-7,8 | -1,3,15 | 5 | -2,3,0,2 | -54,-25,-10,10 | 8,6,7 | -48,-16,0,5,5,2,4

Each integer separated by a comma is a character. Each set of integers separated by a | is a word.

Hint: The last letter of each word is the actual letter.

Hint 2: Ask yourself these questions.

If you can't discern a pattern with negatives/positives - is there one? How do you know there is/isn't?
What sort of algorithm would result in the last letter of each word being kept the same as the original when all other letters have been transformed somehow?

Good luck.

 

[Candid]

Yeah I don’t understand

 

[teazhi]

Each array of integers is a word and the last letter of each word makes up a final word? Is this how it works?

 

[Ally]

Each array of integers is a word and the last letter of each word makes up a final word? Is this how it works?

Each array is a word yep (separated by |) and the last integer of each word is directly substitutable with the one in reference dictionary.

 

[teazhi]

For the first array, is it h, h, o, y? If this is it, I don’t think there’s a word that has these letters...

 

[Ally]

For the first array, is it h, h, o, y? If this is it, I don’t think there’s a word that has these letters...

Nope. The first word is definitely an English word. If it helps, look at the reference dictionary (and its order).

 

[teazhi]

Is the first word ‘holy’?[DOUBLEPOST=1589691208][/DOUBLEPOST]Second word ‘sh*t’?

 

[Ally]

Is the first word ‘holy’?[DOUBLEPOST=1589691208][/DOUBLEPOST]Second word ‘sh*t’?

Yeah and yeah.

 

[teazhi]

Are negatives the letters, but flipped upside down?[DOUBLEPOST=1589691658][/DOUBLEPOST]Holy sh*t you are brilliant[DOUBLEPOST=1589691671][/DOUBLEPOST]That is my guess.

 

[Ally]

Are negatives the numbers, but flipped upside down?[DOUBLEPOST=1589691658][/DOUBLEPOST]Holy sh*t you are brilliant[DOUBLEPOST=1589691671][/DOUBLEPOST]That is my guess.

Nope, someone else tried that. Feel free to try though.

And that's an incomplete guess!

 

[teazhi]

Is my guess so far correct?

 

[Ally]

Is my guess so far correct?

Yes. Keep going .

 

[teazhi]

Is the result one whole sentence or multiple sentences? If it’s multiple, how do you know where the sentence ends?

 

[Ally]

Is the result one whole sentence or multiple sentences? If it’s multiple, how do you know where the sentence ends?

Probably multiple, can't remember. Is effectively irrelevant. So you don't know where the sentence ends :shrug: - trust your own grammar intuition.

 

[teazhi]

None of the words are to be unscrambled, right?

 

[Ally]

None of the words are to be unscrambled, right?

No unscrambling.

 

[teazhi]

Are there any calculations involved?

 

[FirelBYC]

Holy shi*t, you are brilliant. I can't do this at all[DOUBLEPOST=1589694003][/DOUBLEPOST]Correct so far?

 

[Ally]

Are there any calculations involved?

Yeh

Holy shi*t, you are brilliant. I can't do this at all[DOUBLEPOST=1589694003][/DOUBLEPOST]Correct so far?

Dunno, can't give anymore hints. See above posts.

 

[Jack]