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.

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  1. David Timothy (Ianas)December 17, 2013 at 6:47 PM

    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.

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  2. Scott KahlerDecember 17, 2013 at 6:48 PM

    I had one to like this

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  3. Scott KahlerDecember 17, 2013 at 6:49 PM

    RPU36CONSPIRE68QPR

    Thanks for participating in the +NianticProject conversation, and sorry for the delay in getting this passcode out to you. x
    RPU36CONSPIRE68QPR

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  4. Scott KahlerDecember 17, 2013 at 6:50 PM

    It was all in caps too :(

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  5. Dean NDecember 17, 2013 at 6:50 PM

    David Timothy  Looking through mine, that appears to be the first. all the others do have full words in them though.

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  6. Dean NDecember 17, 2013 at 6:52 PM

    Scott 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 )

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  7. Dean NDecember 17, 2013 at 7:01 PM

    Sorry, 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.

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  8. Daniel BentonDecember 17, 2013 at 7:29 PM

    The response one-shot codes generally are of the form ^[P-Z]{3}[0-9]{2}[a-z0-9]+[0-9]{2}[P-Z]{3}$

    In other words, I think you just got a strange random combination of characters as a suffix there.

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  9. Dean NDecember 17, 2013 at 7:32 PM

    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.

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  10. J.J. RamirezDecember 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM

    Interesting theory, but unfortunately, David Timothy is right. The fact that your code spelled out spy is coincidental, like a randomized licence plate.

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  11. Daniel BentonDecember 17, 2013 at 7:36 PM

    Dean 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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