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)

Congratulations to all three of you.

Leming, for your speedy response and for solving both parts of the problem;

Charlie, for an excellent computer program and technique for dealing with very long numbers;

Hugo, for your imagination.

-Mindy

Posted by Mindrod on 2006-02-07 21:19:58