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Re: Hooked On Phonetics
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Reply to: #757118 by LightninBug
Feb 1, 2013 4:08am
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For those lazy as I, here is the direct link to rotor script:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/rotor.htm

If somebody is interested, I do have the actual alphabet, which does show that I may one day be motivated to create a box based upon it. :-)

LeBug
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Reply to: #757119 by LightninBug
Feb 1, 2013 5:02am
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ok, now that's a perfect example of not all boxes are for all boxers.

that would give me a migraine to solve.

~tigs (guess what? i do have limits)
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Reply to: #757125 by tiggermama
Feb 1, 2013 7:32am
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Yes, a migraine in the making tigs.
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Reply to: #757119 by LightninBug
Feb 1, 2013 7:36am
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Anyone else have the DOA song, 'You spin me round' in their head after seeing this?

I would be up for finding one like this - but it would take me a bit to figure out the clue.
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Reply to: #757156 by FORAYCH
Feb 1, 2013 9:05am
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Well,

Here is rotor script lite:

http://www.atlasquest.com/boxes/clue/?gBoxId=99409

Le Bug
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Reply to: #757185 by LightninBug
Feb 1, 2013 12:05pm
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Oh good; I'm only half as nauseous.

~tigs
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Reply to: #757125 by tiggermama
Feb 1, 2013 3:48pm
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that would give me a migraine to solve.

Unless you write in another language or phonetically, then it would be a simple substitution cipher. Given enough text it can be solved. But most people would be intimidated by it.

I solved a substitution cipher on a geocache puzzle just yesterday. The puzzle was some letters, numbers and punctuation, but no clue was given on how to solve it. I noticed a pattern that looked like "teen" (but in another set of characters) and went from there. That particular word ended up being "nineteen" so I had several repeats in that word alone. Then I just substituted my guess letters for what was there and looked for more recognizable words, repeating until it was solved. I've solved a substitution cipher on a letterbox around here too, but that was

Beyond a simple substitution cipher or another language that should be obvious enough (like we could all recognize Spanish), I think that you need to give them a clue as to what they are looking for. Like one in the Deseret alphabet would fit in better in Utah or a surrounding state, but would take more creativity (A challenge?) to work in somewhere else. Does someone volunteer to get permission to plant a letterbox in The Republic of Molossia?

One that I'm going to be doing (eventually) in Elvish, it will be a series set in the Tolkien books (so, some appropriate name) and I will give them some other clue (that I haven't decided on yet). The first one in the series will be based on the first line of The Hobbit. I'll get to it when I've caught up on some other things.

There are just so many fun things that can be done with the scripts at Omniglot.
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Reply to: #757235 by Oberon_Kenobi
May 22, 2013 12:43am
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I love the Utah/Deseret idea.