Wednesday, 7 August 2013

cipher - (According to me.)



First thing




  • My first three are the code for a port airport in Malaysia.

  • Next you'll need one of the least-common Scrabble tiles.

  • Finally, don't look in nature for my last two, they were first made in Germany in 1984.




Second thing




  • My first three are broadcast by the USA, but not in the USA.

  • Next, you’ll find the original ObiWan.

  • My last two are where you want to be on a rainy day.




Third thing





Fourth thing




  • I begin with two neighbors who together can make a beetle.

  • My next two are a coin flip in ancient Rome.

  • My last two are a guy on a baseball team. Or on an American football team.




Fifth thing




  • My first three can be found by taking the 5th, 2nd, and 7th of a well-known sequence.

  • Take half of that same sequence to get my last two.



Sixth thing





  • My first four are a bit bloody.

  • My last six are a place of peace and tranquility, or peril.



Final thing



According to all of you (↑), I am vyvjijljifvzzlrk






Hint for the third thing



Hail is used as a verb, but not in the sense of acclaim or glorification.
In the puzzle mentioned, we indeed had to do something, but "thin" is not the right verb for _ _ _ _ K.




Answer



After solving the sixth thing, Gareth proposed that ...



... the "things" are the names of transformations to which that transformation is applied.




This seems to be true. In particular, the first thing ...



... is ATBASH encoded with the Atbash cipher: ZGYZHS

ZGY is the IATA code of Kuching Port Airport. The Z tile occurs only once in a Scrabble set and scores 10. HS is the chemical symbol of Hassium.



The second thing ...



... is RAILFENCE encoded with the railfence cipher:


    R       F       E
A L E C
I N

Radio Free Europe or RFE is an US-govermnent funded broadcaster in Europe. ALEC Guinness played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars and when you are at home, or IN, you're dry in rainy weather.


The third thing ...



... is BACKWARD backward: DRAWKCAB.

You can hail a CAB and we had to DRAW K, i.e. follow a series of instructions to draw the letter K, in Alconja's puzzle. The clues to this thing are in backwards order, too, because they put the "cab" before the "draw K".

(This thing was solved by Gareth, with whom I agree that the cab clue should come last, so that the clues in order yield the whole word backwards.)



The fourth thing ...



... is VOWELLESS without vowels: VWLLSS.

Volkswagen or VW for short produced the Beetle. A coin toss is fifty-fifty or LL in Roman numbers. And SS could be a Shortstop in baseball or Strong Safety in American football.



The fifth thing ...




... is ROT13 encoded with Rot13: EBG13.

The sequence in question isn't any numerical sequence, but the English alphabet, whose fifth, second and seventh elements are E, B and G. The alphabet as 26 letters, so half of it is 13. (And it's quite embarrassing how long it took me to find this thing.)



The sixth thing ...



... was found by Gareth Mc Caughan. It is REARRANGED rearranged to RARE GARDEN.



The final answer:



At first I thought that the answer was a word that would be subjected to all transformations and that the final result of these transformations would be vyvjijljifvzzlrk. That can't be true, because when working backwards from that word, the last step is a transposition, which doesn't change the contained letters, and the seond but last step is Rot13, which yields a word with i's and e's. That can't be the result of the fourth step, which is to strip all vowels.

The procedure is to start with vyvjijljifvzzlrk and apply all transformations to it:

Atbash → ebeqrqoqrueaaoip
Railfence → errabqqquaopeoei

Backward → ieoepoauqqqbarre
Vowelless → pqqqbrr
Rot13 → cdddoee
Rearranged → decoded



So the final answer is:



According to all of you (↑), I am DECODED.



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