Are you sure you know which colour is 1 and which is 0? Honestly, I preferred the other counting method (i.e. 1,2,3,4). There was no way on earth I would have been able to work out the 1s and 0s... my brain was already at capacity by the time I finally understood the start, stop and checksum stuff!
Sorry, but just because it's an old word, doesn't exclude it from being a strange word. English is my only language and I have a wider vocabulary than most of the English-speaking population (note: I said most, not all) yet, as confessed by most native English speakers in this thread, this word is very much unknown to many, myself included. It is still a strange word!
Do you mean more like: driving me insane and taking up my every waking moment of thought (and probably also my every thought even whilst I'm not awake)?! Of course, only until I solved it. Which I'm very relieved about! @0X00FF00
I finally made it, after many hours of thinking and analyzing, I could finally achieve it, I thank all those who gave valuable clues and contributions, without it I could not, do not use any scanner or online application, I did everything manual.
I disagree with you. I decoded it manually with pen and paper (not using 1s and 0s) and I was able to successfully decode it to 128B and lowercase letters, just like somebody else suggested very early on. The passcode it not case sensitive. Just because the code mentions 128C does not mean it was only 128C.
It's not actually wrong advice. Why do you keep saying that it's wrong advice? @KarM3L I fully agree with everything @starwort has stated so far and their advice has been accurate.
Read the comments, they have given many clues, in fact they gave the first part, they already gave how to interpret it, it consists of two parts a vertical and horizontal, the number of letters of the keyword, where to look for that keyword, do not complicate looking for scanners, I deciphered it using paper and pencil and MS paint and having understood the code128 format
As stated earlier, passcodes are not case sensitive.
You can enter them as uppercase however, the puzzle correctly decodes to code 128B when done manually by counting widths. Just because the code's start character indicates that it is 128C does not mean it does not decode to lowercase.
Please don't be so patronising. There is more than one way to solve this puzzle and although you may not have solved it the same way, it does not mean that this way is a shortcut.
No deadline, I believe, but DW the scoreboard has not been updating correctly so far. Niantic is aware of the issue and trying to work it out @Codballock
@GiantCannoli That's a representation of a part of the barcode. It's only half of it, though. There's also something missing at the beginning. You need the full barcode first. Then you need to convert the full barcode to text like a barcode scanner would. There are decrypt sites online that can do that for you from this format.
No, you don't start from the keyword. You start with a barcode, which translates to numbers, which translates to characters. The keyword is somewhere in the string of characters. Yes, the keyword can be found in that list mentioned earlier. Read through (or check against) the list provided.
Use the format aaa#aaKEYWORD##aa.
Not all letters stay letters. Once you see the keyword, you will be able to figure out (more easily) the unsolved parts of the format above. Don't give up. @Nr2
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Are you sure you know which colour is 1 and which is 0? Honestly, I preferred the other counting method (i.e. 1,2,3,4). There was no way on earth I would have been able to work out the 1s and 0s... my brain was already at capacity by the time I finally understood the start, stop and checksum stuff!
@cluepon you've gone wrong somewhere. you need to get 23 chars (not including the checksum). you're on the right track though! don't give up!
Sorry, but just because it's an old word, doesn't exclude it from being a strange word. English is my only language and I have a wider vocabulary than most of the English-speaking population (note: I said most, not all) yet, as confessed by most native English speakers in this thread, this word is very much unknown to many, myself included. It is still a strange word!
Do you mean more like: driving me insane and taking up my every waking moment of thought (and probably also my every thought even whilst I'm not awake)?! Of course, only until I solved it. Which I'm very relieved about! @0X00FF00
OK, You can't recover our achievement. Great gamemaster. We are excluded from not only this turn, but also the series ranking.
I finally made it, after many hours of thinking and analyzing, I could finally achieve it, I thank all those who gave valuable clues and contributions, without it I could not, do not use any scanner or online application, I did everything manual.
I disagree with you. I decoded it manually with pen and paper (not using 1s and 0s) and I was able to successfully decode it to 128B and lowercase letters, just like somebody else suggested very early on. The passcode it not case sensitive. Just because the code mentions 128C does not mean it was only 128C.
Could you give me some advice? I've tried everything I could think of from binary to barcodes and have nothing
I've never before seen a lower case passcode
Ergo passcode is suppose to be uppercase, for it to be uppercase you need the numbers from C
Not the coincidencal shortcut via B
It's not actually wrong advice. Why do you keep saying that it's wrong advice? @KarM3L I fully agree with everything @starwort has stated so far and their advice has been accurate.
Read the comments, they have given many clues, in fact they gave the first part, they already gave how to interpret it, it consists of two parts a vertical and horizontal, the number of letters of the keyword, where to look for that keyword, do not complicate looking for scanners, I deciphered it using paper and pencil and MS paint and having understood the code128 format
Well done on finding a shortcut, of sorts,
As stated earlier, passcodes are not case sensitive.
You can enter them as uppercase however, the puzzle correctly decodes to code 128B when done manually by counting widths. Just because the code's start character indicates that it is 128C does not mean it does not decode to lowercase.
Please don't be so patronising. There is more than one way to solve this puzzle and although you may not have solved it the same way, it does not mean that this way is a shortcut.
I MADE IT!
A barcode can't have junk in it. Look closer and clean it up.
Was there a deadline for the score board? I completed this about 11.30 last night but the board hasnt updated.
No deadline, I believe, but DW the scoreboard has not been updating correctly so far. Niantic is aware of the issue and trying to work it out @Codballock
I gave up that way, since the first letters did not match. Found another way to get the first bits.
So just to confirm I'm on the right track :
The keyword can be found in the list posted here.
I start from the keyword and use the code aaa#aaKEYWORD##aa.
Letters stay letters.
Hashtag gives me numbers. (Still have to find out how to do that, fist attempts gave me nothing.)
Do I have leftovers at the beginning and at the end or do I have to use all letters to turn into the passcode ???
My head is burning 😂
Ahh ok I thought they had rectified it already. Thanks!.
Got it
All 23 letters go into the passcode, but the passcode will be shorter than 23.
Stuck at rest 10 alphanumerics😔
How do you know? I don't doubt that, but how?
That was a hint from one of the first solvers. And those that have solved it later confirm it is correct.
I guessed the right format by trying different variants. Then some time later published the format to help other agents save some time.
I'm ready to give up, but have to keep going...
got to 421112,122411,124112,122411,121241,241211,111242,134111,241112,112214,1421121
can't make any sense in ascii, I have letters but they don't seem to make sense
@GiantCannoli That's a representation of a part of the barcode. It's only half of it, though. There's also something missing at the beginning. You need the full barcode first. Then you need to convert the full barcode to text like a barcode scanner would. There are decrypt sites online that can do that for you from this format.
No, you don't start from the keyword. You start with a barcode, which translates to numbers, which translates to characters. The keyword is somewhere in the string of characters. Yes, the keyword can be found in that list mentioned earlier. Read through (or check against) the list provided.
Use the format aaa#aaKEYWORD##aa.
Not all letters stay letters. Once you see the keyword, you will be able to figure out (more easily) the unsolved parts of the format above. Don't give up. @Nr2