BURN IT DOWN Puzzle - Ongoing Progress (Full Puzzle Complete)

Is it 100% certain that solving the cipher will give a snippet?

It could be that (as it is originally said by Mike, "Unlock puzzles, hear parts of our new single first.") solving the puzzle (the complete one) will give the snippet, and completing/solving the chiper using those numbers will give the easter egg, that could be the album name, a track list, etc.

 

Maybe instead of substracting we should add some numbers? I added 4-4 numbers..damn it's really confusing

 

Has anyone tried dividing these numbers instead of subtracting them? Not sure if it was thrown out there.

 

The examples on Wikipedia explain it the best.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_36#Examples

 

It probably won't, seeing as all the functions allowable via the terminal can be seen directly in the source code, and we know what all of them do.

 

Old-time and inactive LPA member here!

Been lurking in this thread for a while and although I can't contribute to all this smart logic you guys are putting on display, I decided to make a mock-up of what should be close to the final product. I used Paint so it isn't very edgy or perfect. But, it's a visual representation that I believe will be the final product.

If this was already done, excuse this post

 

I tried dividing, and since they aren't all divisible, I used the remainders...ended up with a bunch of 1s, 2s, and 3s (A, B, C)...don't think that's right.

 

Why are we trying new methods if we know that stl22's method was close? Also, terminal doesn't call to an outside source either because that would have been in the code as well.

 

i spent the last few hours doing different calculations with these numbers and the best is still this LIV/_NG_TH_/N_/_ version i think.
with all the other versions the new letters just didn't fit.
maybe that's just because i've read 'living things' soooo many times already that it started to sound normal opposed to everything else.. : D

 

Who knows, maybe the only reason he was close is because he's using the right numbers. There's no way to know if his method is right or not.

 

A fellow LPA'er has stated that he programs java for a living and he went over every line of code and said that how the code is currently set up there cannot be anymore commands for the Terminal. This is assuming he didn't miss anything, etc. But I also believe when Mike said that only 1 person was the closest. (and what was said by Mike to be the closest) had nothing to do with Terminal commands.

Just throwing that out there; I believe "Living Things" has more of a chance at validity than more Terminal commands if that puts it into perspective.

 

Hey, i just had sent this to Derek but now here it is:

Hi

I got some ideas for the Puzzle, but i cant post them cause I'm new and i do not get the email

But maybe you can post this or think about this (i have to write this to you else i cant sleep ;D):

(Post #4526)

I also thought all the time about the first numbers an these letters somehow seem to be the song. Cause the puzzle is about the song right?

So you got 16 numbers like 16 bars.
the first numbers are always a letter you got a (for example) chord for (or melody, dont know).

the 0 would mean maybe an empty bar with no chord (and only drums or w/e).

With it you would have:

E | D | C | 0
_ (maybe G) | F | E | _ (i guess 0 again)
D | C | _ (dont know) | 0
G | _ | 0 | _

for me that seems like a typical "build" for a song. but maybe thats just a mindgame.

And btw: The images are created with a new software XMP from Adobe, and the code is decoded into base64.

I hope you can post this for everyone

Peace!

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And: What i do not know what the other letters mean in the context then..

 

Just curious why it can not be "Living Thing"

If you line up the letters in the same way as the grid you get:

L I V -
? N G ?
T H ? -
N ? - ?

And make the last column blank

L I V -
I N G -
T H I -
N G - -

 

First off, welcome to the site.

Second off, we've pretty much waived the idea that Living Things is the album title. Xero21 made a post a few pages back proving that it can't be Living Things.

 

Yeah I saw that in the amount of time it took for me to go take a food handlers test and come back the theory got proved wrong so that post ended up being invalid haha oh well but thank you for the welcome!

 

Because in the key we're using to translate, "9" is equal to "i"

the "?" you put in the second row is where a "0" is. and in the kind of puzzle, two numbers cannot equal the same letter.

 

Quoting for emphasis.