Kerbal Kountdown!!!!

[Trentendegreth]

/sadface well it is what it is. Thanks Kasper for letting us know

[smjjames]

No riddle today guys - I'm swamped in work. But I'll have a very nice riddle coming up this weekend

Shapeways may be involved in this

Aw, okay. That's understandable given how busy you guys are.

[Yellowburn10]

No riddle today guys - I'm swamped in work. But I'll have a very nice riddle coming up this weekend

Shapeways may be involved in this

Wait, the weekend? Won't we still have riddles for tomorrow and Friday?

Edit: WAIT I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!

Edited April 22, 2015 by Yellowburn10

[Starhawk]

No worries, Kasper. I'm sure they've got you working very hard just now.

Thanks for all the riddles so far. Looking forward to the riddle this weekend.

We are currently at

5

and counting.

Happy landings!

Edited April 22, 2015 by Starhawk

[r_rolo1]

Oh , I see. The riddle today is "where is the riddle? "

[GoSlash27]

I've got some time to kill. I'll knock together a quick puzzle for y'all...

[klgraham1013]

Riddles are nice, but not essential to KSP development.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

No riddle today guys - I'm swamped in work. But I'll have a very nice riddle coming up this weekend

Shapeways may be involved in this

Select KasperVld's message. Go on, it won't bite.

[KasperVld]

Wait, the weekend? Won't we still have riddles for tomorrow and Friday?

Edit: WAIT I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!

I didn't want to disappoint you completely

[wolfedg]

Riddles are nice, but not essential to KSP development.

This.

If it comes down to priorities, the development must be first. Thanks for the hard work with on the riddles and on the development.

[GoSlash27]

Something to keep you folks entertained for the day.

The theme is cryptography rather than space.

5566 AA55 66DB 
4AA9 AA95 5955

Good luck!

-Slashy

[h4didact]

Something to keep you folks entertained for the day.

The theme is cryptography rather than space.

5566 AA55 66DB 
4AA9 AA95 5955

Good luck!

-Slashy

Hex codes from hellz. Get me outta here

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Something to keep you folks entertained for the day.

The theme is cryptography rather than space.

5566 AA55 66DB 
4AA9 AA95 5955

Good luck!

-Slashy

Hex to string gets this:

UfªUfÛ?J©ª•YU

Ah ha!

Slashy is comic book swearing!

It all comes together!

The fifth character is f from the front, and from the back: ©

In other words: Five © KSP

illuminati comfirmed.

[Starhawk]

Something to keep you folks entertained for the day.

The theme is cryptography rather than space.

5566 AA55 66DB 
4AA9 AA95 5955

Good luck!

-Slashy

Hmmm. Nothing obvious yet. It certainly appears to be hexadecimal.

These are the six number blocks represented as both decimal and binary.

21862 0101 0101 0110 0110

43605 1010 1010 0101 0101

26331 0110 0110 1101 1011

19113 0100 1010 1010 1001

43669 1010 1010 1001 0101

22869 0101 1001 0101 0101

Cryptography you say... Well, the appearance of being hexadecimal could be a trick to throw us off.

Hmmm...

Happy landings!

[GoSlash27]

Hmmm. Nothing obvious yet. It certainly appears to be hexadecimal.

These are the six number blocks represented as both decimal and binary.

21862 0101 0101 0110 0110

43605 1010 1010 0101 0101

26331 0110 0110 1101 1011

19113 0100 1010 1010 1001

43669 1010 1010 1001 0101

22869 0101 1001 0101 0101

Cryptography you say... Well, the appearance of being hexadecimal could be a trick to throw us off.

Hmmm...

Clue #1> A proper encryption looks random, thus obscuring the process by which it was encrypted. This doesn't look very random.

Best,

-Slashy

[Starhawk]

Still no ideas.

I've gone to EBCDIC, bitmasks, reading random bits of Wikipedia related to cryptography...

I'm probably overthinking it, or maybe I'm trying to see it too much from a computer-encoding point of view.

It certainly doesn't look very random. I wondered right off the bat if the pairs were significant.

Happy landings!

[Mister Dilsby]

It certainly doesn't look very random. I wondered right off the bat if the pairs were significant.

I think they are. '5' shows up quite a bit, and today is day T-5 so I would expect Slashy to use it. Cryptographers often 'salt' a message with noise to confound decoding. But I still don't see a message if we take the 5's out, or the double 5s. Trying things like adding digits together etc... thinking perhaps that when we remove the 'salt' or do some other processing step, we will be left with a set of numbers that correspond to letters of the alphabet (A=1,etc... he's trying to entertain us not murder us )

[REGZZZ]

Ok... I'll try to make a riddle/puzzle for people like me.... here goes:

1234?6789

Good luck!

[GoSlash27]

I think they are. '5' shows up quite a bit, and today is day T-5 so I would expect Slashy to use it. Cryptographers often 'salt' a message with noise to confound decoding. But I still don't see a message if we take the 5's out, or the double 5s. Trying things like adding digits together etc... thinking perhaps that when we remove the 'salt' or do some other processing step, we will be left with a set of numbers that correspond to letters of the alphabet (A=1,etc... he's trying to entertain us not murder us )

I agree with the highlighted part. I made this cryptogram with the intention of it being breakable without too much effort. I therefore wouldn't go out of my way to throw you off the scent.

Best,

-Slashy

[Starhawk]

I agree with the highlighted part.

Yeah, the highlighted part is where I actually laughed out loud when I originally read it.

Well, like I said, I figured I was overthinking it.

Still thinking, but work keeps interfering!

Happy landings!

[Fel]

No riddle today guys - I'm swamped in work. But I'll have a very nice riddle coming up this weekend

Shapeways may be involved in this

So if we sum the letters of the hidden text, multiply by the square root of i, take the natural log of the value and multiply by pi, the real component is 5!

[Mister Dilsby]

Well if it's hex, the distribution is indeed suspicious. Only the digits 4,5,6,9,A,B,D appear. 0,1,2,3,7,8,C,E,F do not.

If the six blocks make six characters of the message, it could spell SLASHY or it could spell ROUND8. Not finding a path to either.

[Starhawk]

Well if it's hex, the distribution is indeed suspicious. Only the digits 4,5,6,9,A,B,D appear. 0,1,2,3,7,8,C,E,F do not.

That was the other thing that I noticed right away, but I can't see a way to make anything of it.

Puzzled landings?

[h4didact]

Ok... I'll try to make a riddle/puzzle for people like me.... here goes:

1234?6789

Good luck!

is it 42?

[GoSlash27]

Well if it's hex, the distribution is indeed suspicious. Only the digits 4,5,6,9,A,B,D appear. 0,1,2,3,7,8,C,E,F do not.

If the six blocks make six characters of the message, it could spell SLASHY or it could spell ROUND8. Not finding a path to either.

Clue #2:

It is significant that only a few hex values appear. It is also significant that they appear with the frequency distribution they have. There are a lot of 5s and As...