Tuesday, 26 April 2016

A puzzle in 140 characters


Your final answer will respond to the question "Why don't I like Twitter that much?"


Like usual, I'll confirm any sub-answers if you find them


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Here's the link to the puzzle on Twitter.


Here's the text of the puzzle:




🐾❄🥅#📌♠💦
255879⠗⠕⠞⠼⠁⠊⠉:⠺⠠⠰⠶⠮∞WᒧO3>H∽UO)
Z⊢せம佛أر➪ᓭܜ⚡ﺪトΛíĆẸİĿMṈOṖ$ŦŪVYA
hot new vow⊔N⌶ⅽ✜ዐᛊfirsts🐌🌮🚇✒🔑
🛑🐣➖💅☄📂🎹🎩V𝙸२-ƧΞ⊕ꘜ⊞।
Ʌ𝟾⎕META:…|#/|@…:@**¢#1¢1:/




Answer



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🐾❄🥅#📌♠💦255879



This is a word square:
PAW
ICE
NET
Extract the letters in the positions 2, 5, 5, 8, 7, 9 on a phone keypad to get ACCENT.



⠗⠕⠞⠼⠁⠊⠉:⠺⠠⠰⠶⠮




The first part (before the colon) says "ROT193".
Logically, that's ROT180 + ROT13.
So, do that to everything after the colon - flip it upside down (rot180), decode as Braille, then rot13 it to get ATONE.



∞WᒧO3>H∽UO)Z⊢



Turn your head sideways - it reads as "BELOW VISCOUNT", and the rank below Viscount is BARON.



せம佛أر➪ᓭܜ⚡ﺪトΛí




Start with the section left of the arrow. Those are characters from various languages: SE, MA, PHO, and RE. So we interpret the things right of the arrow as flag semaphore to get COLOGNE.



ĆẸİĿMṈOṖ\$ŦŪVY



You can rearrange these to get ĆOṈ$ŪMṖŦİVẸĿY. The accents there are Morse code for TORI, and "Tori, consumptively" is a crossword clue (though oddly phrased) for DONUTS.



A hot new vow



This is just a cryptic clue for OATH. (Thanks, Sp3000!)




⊔N⌶ⅽ✜ዐᛊfirsts



This says "Unicode firsts", but in a weird way. Take the characters that make up "Unicode", look them up in Unicode, and take the first letters of the official names to get SLASHER.



🐌🌮🚇✒🔑🛑🐣➖💅☄📂🎹🎩



This is simply a rebus.
Before the minus sign we have SNAIL TACO METRO PEN KEY STOP HATCH. After, we have NAIL COMET OPEN KEYS TOP HAT. Removing the latter from the former gives us S[nail]TA[comet]R[open][keys][tophat]CH, or STARCH.



V𝙸२-ƧΞ⊕ꘜ⊞।Ʌ𝟾⎕




The middle symbol (that looks like a circled plus sign) means "exclusive or" - basically, overlap and remove anything that's black in both symbols. Do that to the six symbols on either side and you get the word THRASH.



META:…|#/|@…:@**¢#1¢1:/



All the words are made up of a punctuation mark with two letters inserted (or on the sides). For instance, COLO(g)N(e) --> COLON and (t)H(r)ASH --> HASH. Those punctuation marks appear twice each in the text after "META:". Replace the two occurrences with the two extra letters, in order.
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You don't like Twitter because it has NOT ENOUGH CHARACTER!



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