Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

Dan Christensen jdc at uwo.ca
Tue May 3 15:30:21 EDT 2005


Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm> writes:

> Chris McAloney wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Okay, so I've been working on level seven for a LONG time now.  I've
>> decoded the first message to get the hint for the next level.  Using the
>> same tactics, then I decode the hint as well, but there are non-printable
>> characters.  I've tried stripping out those characters, quoting them to
>> include in the URL and various anagrams of the printable characters, but
>> nothing works.  Does anybody have any suggestions?
>
> I just took a guess for the first of those non-printable characters, and 
> proceeded from there. I thought it was going to be too simplistic, but 
> it worked. And fortunately my first guess was the right one.

Hmm, I didn't get any non-printable characters, just a regular English
word to be used to get to level 8.  I think you guys must be doing
something wrong...

Dan



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