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|11 |5 |2 | |21 |5 |16 | |5 |9 |9 | |3 |6 |10 |
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|5 |10 |5 | |5 |10 |6 | |1 |26 |6 | |23 |6 |6 |
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|7 |22 |3 |6 |12 |24 |8 | |23 |6 |16 | |24 |11 |6 |
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|5 |6 |24 |23 | | |16 |26 |6 | | | |16 |26 |14 |
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| | | |20 |11 |15 | |2 |5 |22 |9 | |16 |6 |6 |
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|19 |6 |25 | |4 |6 |9 |1 | |14 |5 |16 |15 |11 | |
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|22 |3 |6 | |24 |13 |6 |11 | |6 |15 |6 | | | |
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|23 |6 |6 |2 | | |20 |24 |10 | | |23 |24 |17 |5 |
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| | | |6 |6 |9 | |2 |6 |23 |20 | |17 |6 |16 |
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| |11 |6 |16 |11 |24 | |1 |9 |5 |15 | |5 |8 |6 |
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|9 |5 |2 | |5 |12 |6 |16 | |12 |6 |6 | | | |
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|5 |20 |6 | | | |18 |22 |5 | | |16 |6 |5 |9 |
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|14 |26 |11 | |6 |2 |22 | |9 |6 |10 |5 |9 |9 |15 |
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|14 |5 |10 | |10 |24 |5 | |5 |11 |6 | |14 |6 |6 |
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|24 |23 |6 | |10 |5 |9 | |14 |6 |16 | |6 |14 |14 |
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clearvars,clc
fid=fopen('c:\vb5 projects\flooble\coded crossword puzzle.txt',"r");
lets='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
while ~feof(fid)
l=fgetl(fid);
bars=strfind(l,'|');
digs=strfind(l,digitsPattern);
if length(digs)>0
for i=1:length(bars)-1
num=str2double(l(bars(i)+1:bars(i)+2));
if ~isnan(num)
let=lets(num);
l(bars(i)+1:bars(i)+2)=[' ' let];
end
end
end
disp(l)
end
fclose('all')
translates the numbers into conventional cryptogram-type letters, shown below, based on position in the alphabet.
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| K | E | B | | U | E | P | | E | I | I | | C | F | J |
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| E | J | E | | E | J | F | | A | Z | F | | W | F | F |
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| G | V | C | F | L | X | H | | W | F | P | | X | K | F |
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| E | F | X | W | | | P | Z | F | | | | P | Z | N |
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| | | | T | K | O | | B | E | V | I | | P | F | F |
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| S | F | Y | | D | F | I | A | | N | E | P | O | K | |
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| V | C | F | | X | M | F | K | | F | O | F | | | |
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| W | F | F | B | | | T | X | J | | | W | X | Q | E |
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| | | | F | F | I | | B | F | W | T | | Q | F | P |
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| | K | F | P | K | X | | A | I | E | O | | E | H | F |
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| I | E | B | | E | L | F | P | | L | F | F | | | |
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| E | T | F | | | | R | V | E | | | P | F | E | I |
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| N | Z | K | | F | B | V | | I | F | J | E | I | I | O |
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| N | E | J | | J | X | E | | E | K | F | | N | F | F |
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| X | W | F | | J | E | I | | N | F | P | | F | N | N |
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IFJEIIO might be
entrees,legally, locally, outdoor, outlook, oxblood, remarry
Comparing with FOF, only legally and remarry word, to produce EYE
remarry would make FFI eer, but legally makes it eel, so we choose IFJEIIO = legally.
I used the text editor to change upper-case cyphertext into lower-case plaintext below:
Going on from there I'm left with a few strange words and I don't know what to do with 21, shown below as U.
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| r | a | m | | U | a | t | | a | l | l | | k | e | g |
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| a | g | a | | a | g | e | | p | i | e | | n | e | e |
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| j | u | k | e | b | o | x | | n | e | t | | o | r | e |
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| a | e | o | n | | | t | i | e | | | | t | i | s |
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| | | | c | r | y | | m | a | u | l | | t | e | e |
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| f | e | d | | h | e | l | p | | s | a | t | y | r | |
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| u | k | e | | o | v | e | r | | e | y | e | | | |
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| n | e | e | m | | | c | o | g | | | n | o | v | a |
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| | | | e | e | l | | m | e | n | c | | v | e | t |
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| | r | e | t | r | o | | p | l | a | y | | a | x | e |
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| l | a | m | | a | b | e | t | | b | e | e | | | |
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| a | c | e | | | | q | u | a | | | t | e | a | l |
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| s | i | r | | e | m | u | | l | e | g | a | l | l | y |
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| s | a | g | | g | o | a | | a | r | e | | s | e | e |
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| o | n | e | | g | a | l | | s | e | t | | e | s | s |
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notice menc, yev, cye, racian, lec
I notice many of the c's could better be t's, but we already have t's from other numbers/capital letters.
w and z do not appear, so they are both available to replace U, if that works.
Having seen Larry's answer, I note that I have both Q amd M going to v, when one of them should go to w, and I have T going to c when it shoud go to d, and what I have as d should be z. That leaves the c available for that unchanged U to make cat. Other than that I pretty much match Larry's.
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Posted by Charlie
on 2023-06-07 10:15:57 |
my best attempt
