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The hint gives away the encryption. He says the decrypting of the title is "easy". I'll explain.
There are only 5 symbols used: @, #, $, %, * (in order which they appear on the number-row of a keyboard)
Now, consider the number of letters before each symbol, and treat it as an ordered pair (4, $), etc.
It should be noted, in addition, that there are a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 4 letters between symbols.
If we treat the symbols in order they appear on the keyboard, we could do the following: (0, @) = A, (1, @) = B, ..., (0, #) = F, ..., (0, $) = K, ..., (0, %) = P, (0, *) = U
The title has the resulting ordered pairs:
(4, @), (0, @), (3, %), (4, *)
or
E A S Y
Apply this to the problem, and you get the following message:
I never met a huckleberry pie I didn't like.
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Posted by derek
on 2003-07-08 05:16:10 |
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