On the thought of puzzles within codes and visa versa and the need for the decoders to work with those that work on...
On the thought of puzzles within codes and visa versa and the need for the decoders to work with those that work on the back story puzzles, take a look at this one time code I redeemed for my participation in the Niantic Project discussions. Specifically "Turing Spy" a possible reference to ADA or Omnivore? (not sure if it was ever mentioned if Omnivore did the Turing test as well)
I am curious if the other codes have similar references, and if we can use them to spell out a message. This code came to me today, if you have used your code and would like to post it here we can test out my little hypothesis. Thanks for your time.
Interesting. I've never seen one with the last three letters actually forming a word. I just went back through several of mine and they are gibberish.
ReplyDeleteI had one to like this
ReplyDeleteRPU36CONSPIRE68QPR
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating in the +NianticProject conversation, and sorry for the delay in getting this passcode out to you. x
RPU36CONSPIRE68QPR
It was all in caps too :(
ReplyDeleteDavid Timothy Looking through mine, that appears to be the first. all the others do have full words in them though.
ReplyDeleteScott Kahler can you post it if its redeemed and you still have it? (should be able to dig it out of Verity Seke's profile here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108287482119969530189/posts )
ReplyDeleteSorry, Scott Kahler Google hid your comment initially so I didn't see it. It thought it was spam until I told it to not hide it.
ReplyDeleteThe response one-shot codes generally are of the form ^[P-Z]{3}[0-9]{2}[a-z0-9]+[0-9]{2}[P-Z]{3}$
ReplyDeleteIn other words, I think you just got a strange random combination of characters as a suffix there.
Ok, then surely the words in the middle are not random occurances. With 2 codes we get Turing and Conspire nestled between 2 sets of numbers.
ReplyDeleteInteresting theory, but unfortunately, David Timothy is right. The fact that your code spelled out spy is coincidental, like a randomized licence plate.
ReplyDeleteDean Nielson the word is the middle is commonly called the "keyword" amongst decoders. They're randomly chosen from a list, in the case of one-shots, as well
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