The following 2-phrase, 10-word message was encrypted by converting each word in the original text from base 36 to base 10 (treating each letter as a number).

Next, the resulting numbers were concatenated to form one very long number:

3188696725382955872716533682296997335...
5701338323073559429444643676946239584...
715731974947334325407967846302738783

1) Identify where to place word breaks and decipher the message. (Easy)
2) Determine what each word in the message has in common. (Harder)

When I saw the words that Leming and Charlie found so soon, I thought of the Rainbow Warrior incident in New Zealand, because of the words frenchman, frogman and assassin.  "brash" I didn't know, so googled it and found he's a kiwi poltician. 

I guess the Rainbow Warrior or Greenpeace is the answer. Great, a puzzle with Greenpeace in it!

Posted by Hugo on 2006-02-07 11:16:24