Here are some newspaper headlines:

YOU RUB IT,
SHEEP DUELED WAR STEPS,
AGING BORED TO NUT PRAYED,
FOSSILL WINS A QUIT AND OIL IT

What is the most likely "name" for this newspaper?

A: WARRITIRE B: AT IT SPARED C: TANK CURE

Note: Spaces/commas count in this code, but are nothing in it. Also, treat all words to have one space/comma between the next word. (There is no space before the beginning or after the end of the headlines, or before each possible newspaper name)

(In reply to FOSSIL should be FOSSILL by Gamer)

Hmm.. I was thinking the other way, 26 letters plus a space is 27 characters, representing the full set of three-digit base 3 numbers (as Brian Smith noted). If the total number of letters has to be a multiple of three, then, perhaps it's the other way around?

If there were some mapping of the characters onto 0, 1, and 2, then YOU could be the first letter, _RU is the second letter, B_I is the third letter, and so on.

At least, that's what I think now, thanks to the inadvertent clue Gamer just dropped.

Posted by DJ on 2003-09-17 21:03:46