Thanks, i did all that stuff so far. I'm stuck with the letters. That's why I know where the keyword part is. But there are more letters left than I need to fill up the format aaa#aaKEYWORD##aa. That's my question where i am stuck. Is the passcode all the letters (where some transform to numbers again) or do I work my way from the keyword to the left and right according to the given format . Passcode is not 23 pieces, right ?
Take a rest. When you look at it with fresh eyes and a rested mind, you will be able to tackle it again.
You are on the right path but you are missing something at the beginning and missing lots on the end.
ASCII is the correct path.
if you've managed to get 421112 (widths) or 11110010100 (patterns) or 87 (value) then you are doing it right! (i.e. these all translate to the letter 'w'.) @GiantCannoli
Most people are looking at it too hard once they've reached this point. Correct, the passcode is not 23 chars.
You know when you have an online dating profile and for your safety, you're not supposed to put your phone number in your profile? and if you do, it gets detected so your profile is rejected? so... people find creative ways to spell out their phone number...
You're doing well! you still need the other half of your barcode though...
I double checked yours against mine. Did you write your decryption down on paper before you typed it up here? If so, you may have a transcription error. If not, you have a couple digits extra and/or some may have been eyeballed incorrectly... @GiantCannoli
I realized about 36 hours (or more) after I had the barcode decoded that I could have calculated the passcode without even knowing which part was the keyword needed. I was way overthinking it.
I figured out that I could have totally ignored what the keyword was and get the numbers and the passcode without even knowing it (around 36 hours after having the proper barcode decode...)
Presumably only once the x#xWORDx#x format was posted? Because the specific order of the padding letters/digits will be entirely different every. single. time.
Hey guys, if you are still stuck, it's started leaking in the usual passcode channels.
So complete steps / walkthrough follows.
Take the horizontal and vertical barcodes, draw a 4 pixel grid over top. not 3.
Read the spec on Code 128 and transcribe into binary, taking into account you don't know whether 0 is black or 1 is black.
Look for the start / end character codes in the binary, you may need to flip the 0's to 1's or the 1's to zeros.
You may need to reverse the binary strings, depending on how you transcribed it to binary.
Barcodes naturally use Run Length Encoding, so instead of binary, you may want to count the widths. However this can make combining the barcodes difficult, if it happens to be split halfway through a code.
Once encoded, you should be able to use the Code 128 wiki to decode the barcodes, straight to lowercase text, or use dcode.fr 's decoders.
Once you have the lowercase text, you need to find the (obscure) english keyword in the center. and separate the code into the prefix, keyword, and suffix. It took me like 3 tries to find the keyword, just by searching random parts of the phrase in google.
Once done, you can concentrate on doing the substitution to get the prefix and suffix to match the format spoilt in this thread, or match a 'generic' passcode looking format.
The substitution has been used by NIA before, but isn't one you will find on any decoding site as far as I know, you are better off reading it for yourself.
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I deciphered it!
Thanks, i did all that stuff so far. I'm stuck with the letters. That's why I know where the keyword part is. But there are more letters left than I need to fill up the format aaa#aaKEYWORD##aa. That's my question where i am stuck. Is the passcode all the letters (where some transform to numbers again) or do I work my way from the keyword to the left and right according to the given format . Passcode is not 23 pieces, right ?
Take a rest. When you look at it with fresh eyes and a rested mind, you will be able to tackle it again.
You are on the right path but you are missing something at the beginning and missing lots on the end.
ASCII is the correct path.
if you've managed to get 421112 (widths) or 11110010100 (patterns) or 87 (value) then you are doing it right! (i.e. these all translate to the letter 'w'.) @GiantCannoli
ok, my heads spinning now, got 211232112214421112122411212241112124124121111124213411121122141421121
just eyeballing tho
I'm Pink Therefore I'm SPAM!
Most people are looking at it too hard once they've reached this point. Correct, the passcode is not 23 chars.
You know when you have an online dating profile and for your safety, you're not supposed to put your phone number in your profile? and if you do, it gets detected so your profile is rejected? so... people find creative ways to spell out their phone number...
Solve the #'s last.
Thank you very much! :)
You're doing well! you still need the other half of your barcode though...
I double checked yours against mine. Did you write your decryption down on paper before you typed it up here? If so, you may have a transcription error. If not, you have a couple digits extra and/or some may have been eyeballed incorrectly... @GiantCannoli
your right, I tried again using a blutak marker one at a time,
got start, then e,w,h,t....
no luck with top to bottom or bottom to top yet using the same code , still trying tho thank you :)
Thanks, that was the Missing Link. Finally done. Can't post pics here since I'm not long enough around .
That's 51% percent of your barcode. You need the whole barcode before you can properly decode.
As stated earlier, the clock is a clue to the orientation of the second half of the barcode.
does the second half of the barcode decode the same way, it doesn't seem to for me
Yeay I got it...
@GiantCannoli Please remove the two parts of the decoded barcode, so other player can enjoy the challenge as well. You‘re almost there.
I've never before seen a lower case passcode
Ergo passcode is suppose to be uppercase,
For the record, most passcodes I have seen have been lower case. See for example: https://fevgames.net/ingress/forever-passcodes/
But passcodes are in fact case insensitive, so there is no "supposed to be".
Ok got it,
Blu-Tak worked for me .... and counting one to four
All the 23 characters you get are used for the passcode, Think on how to get the numbers, maybe reading few pages back will help you
I already solved it, just can't post pics because I'm not long enough here ;)
But thanks anyway !
Finally...... Now i can have sweet dreams 🤣
This one, gave me a headache yesterday but finally made it!!!! Thanks everyone for the clues.
Yes! I got it!!!
Thanks all. This keyword was a problem.
I realized about 36 hours (or more) after I had the barcode decoded that I could have calculated the passcode without even knowing which part was the keyword needed. I was way overthinking it.
I figured out that I could have totally ignored what the keyword was and get the numbers and the passcode without even knowing it (around 36 hours after having the proper barcode decode...)
I solved, but i am not in the score 😥
Presumably only once the x#xWORDx#x format was posted? Because the specific order of the padding letters/digits will be entirely different every. single. time.
Por fin gracias por toda la ayuda
Finally
What makes you think those are hex numbers? There's a good chance they would include the characters [a-f] if they were hex.
Thank you for all the hints. That was hard work
Hey guys, if you are still stuck, it's started leaking in the usual passcode channels.
So complete steps / walkthrough follows.
Take the horizontal and vertical barcodes, draw a 4 pixel grid over top. not 3.
Read the spec on Code 128 and transcribe into binary, taking into account you don't know whether 0 is black or 1 is black.
Look for the start / end character codes in the binary, you may need to flip the 0's to 1's or the 1's to zeros.
You may need to reverse the binary strings, depending on how you transcribed it to binary.
Barcodes naturally use Run Length Encoding, so instead of binary, you may want to count the widths. However this can make combining the barcodes difficult, if it happens to be split halfway through a code.
Once encoded, you should be able to use the Code 128 wiki to decode the barcodes, straight to lowercase text, or use dcode.fr 's decoders.
Once you have the lowercase text, you need to find the (obscure) english keyword in the center. and separate the code into the prefix, keyword, and suffix. It took me like 3 tries to find the keyword, just by searching random parts of the phrase in google.
Once done, you can concentrate on doing the substitution to get the prefix and suffix to match the format spoilt in this thread, or match a 'generic' passcode looking format.
The substitution has been used by NIA before, but isn't one you will find on any decoding site as far as I know, you are better off reading it for yourself.