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MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

I have a friend. Yeah a friend that's it... sent me this.

Zag · Tired of his old title

I am pleased and proud to be able to give you an answer right away. The answer is 'no.'

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

Any ideas out there at all? Ive got nothing here. My friend liked Fortune programming
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Chuck · Daedalian Member

Have you tried an online cryptogram solver?

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

I was not aware these things exist, Thank you! I've been brute forcing it for a couple of days now.
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haha by the way, the cryptogram solvers didn't work. let it run for hours but nothing came up on three different sites. I'm thinking it may be a programming joke or something? I'm not sure.
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Suspence · Daedalian Member

Interesting, but probably unrelated, fact - Otto Loewi (titteLOEWI) is the "Father of Neuroscience".
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MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

I just wanted to bump this thread a bit.

I found a clue to this, its a nonlinear cryptic, and it should be a 10 digit number.
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3iff · very unbifflike

What's a nonlinear cryptic?

Oscar · Daedalian Member

Well, 'titte' is German for a woman's breast so could be loosely translated as 'bust'. There is a bust of German-born Otto Loewi in the Agassiz Room at the Marine Biological Lab at Cape Cod, Massachussets with a zip-code of 02543 1015. If we knew the room number, and it's a single digit, perhaps we could prefix the zip-code with that?

Failing that, I think we need more information. Razz

Thok · Oh, foe, the cursed teeth!

3iff · very unbifflike

Phone code conversion is 8488356394

DejMar · (Possibly a robot)

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3iff · very unbifflike

DejMar: My phone has W on the 9 button...so how do you get the W on the 8 button?

Suspence · Daedalian Member

I agree with 3iff's - 848-835-6394. I tried phonespell.com, it doesn't convert into any other words.
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3iff · very unbifflike

Thanks...but as it's not the right answer anyway it doesn't get us any closer.

I'm shocked it's been nearly a year since this surfaced...

Suspence · Daedalian Member

Let's think about this. A "friend" gave MNO her phone number in an encrypted format a year ago, and he's still trying to solve it and call her ...sounds like there is more to the story Razz

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Suspence · Daedalian Member

I also tried it as a cryptogram, thinking there may have been only 1 valid English word that would map to TITTELOEWI (and we could phonespell from there). Unfortunately, there are no valid words that can map to that cryptogram.
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3iff · very unbifflike

If it's an old phone number, is it possible to have a reasonable guess at how it starts? An area code number or similar?

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

She won't tell me. Razz

Maybe I can get it out of her when I go to NYC later on this month.
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Jack_Ian · Big Endian

Perhaps you forgot to lift the toilet seat and it's her way of bringing it to your attention. I WET TOILET (anag.)

Trojan Horse · Daedalian Member

Maybe you need to replace each letter with the number above it on a standard keyboard. TITTELOEWI=585-539-9328.

585 is indeed an area code in New York, so there's a chance this is correct.

Roughly a 0.001% chance, but still a chance. Dispirited

Suspence · Daedalian Member

If not for the L, you would have me convinced.
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Suspence · Daedalian Member

I have bad news. 539 is not a valid exchange for area code 585.

Area code 585 has 487 valid exchanges - http://www.area-codes.com/area-code/area-code-585.asp - but 539 isn't among them...
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MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

but I believe those involve landline exchanges, not wireless exchanges, so, I['m not sure.
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MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

scratch that, but 530 is....

The key above the L is an O...

585-530-9328
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Suspence · Daedalian Member

I woulda went with P for 0, the L seems odd.

Do we get the whole story now? Razz

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MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

Absolutely, I'll do a full writeup later on (I'm leaving for a few hours). It's a story of lost love, happiness, etc, it's quite cool. ( at least to me!)
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Trojan Horse · Daedalian Member

That was it? Shocked

Uh, I mean, yeah! Of course that was it! Glad I could be of service. Enthusiastic Grin

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

Okay, about a year ago, I met this woman online. One of the things she had in her profile was a encoded message. Well we had hit it off, and we had been talking for about a month, then she disappeared off of the site leaving one last PM: to try and decode that message.

Well, the tenacious person that I was, I worked on it for a few weeks, trying to figure out what the hell it was. I was using it as a key to decode things, used anagrams on it etc, but just couldn't figure it out. Then I came here to see if anyone else could shed some light on it.

Since i couldn't get through it, I went a totally different way of finding her. I had her username on the site, her real first name, and where she was last ( in Rochester) from that information alone, I was able to find her by cross referencing all sorts of social media platforms and found her on Facebook, and after three months of making sure it was her, I contacted her.

Turns out she had moved to Washington state to take a programming job, and in the meantime found a guy. I tried so hard, just to find that! Well, we still had kept in touch, and the puzzle fell by the wayside. We we're quite cordial, and talked a lot during this summer.

Well, a few months ago she told me she was coming back to Rochester and would be staying in New York as well! Even better, she was ending her relationship with that pesky guy! I was elated. We met for the first time a month ago, and while she's in NYC, I'm going to meet her.

Now, after our first date, she had given me her number. When she did that, it reminded me of this thread, and how much time I had spent looking for her ( As you know, it was nearly three months before I took my shot in contacting her facebook).

About three days ago, I had asked her about it, and sure enough she told me it was her (now old) number that was encrypted. Well, we made a wager ( since we are both poker players) that if I could get it the number before I came down there, she would pay for dinner at Les Halles, If not, I'd have to pay for her buy-in when we play poker.Thanks to all of your work on this, I'm going to New York City in eight days to see her, and now she's paying for dinner. Revenge most foul!

So the next time I see any of you in person, I'll owe you dinner. Revenge most foul!

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Suspence · Daedalian Member

Ah, cool story. The dinner really belongs to Trojan Horse.
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3iff · very unbifflike

...and it only took us 11 months to solve it...

Good luck, MNO

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MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

Since I'll be getting there early, I'm going to have some time exploring the city.for the first time in eight years.

Since I'll be out and around we are going to meet up when she gets out of her class. Since she has already destroyed me with her simple puzzle, I wrote one to her.