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Shakespeare's Numbers (Posted on 2004-01-09) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Given that

232232:1428:23176:321623251421:247:242827:9182212161427141929:97959391

is the first line to one of Shakespeare's more famous plays, what does

144510:819162710182224:20221422621:330:21151028:202415:207:32162812:13151719

mean?

  Submitted by Sam    
Rating: 4.1667 (6 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
HINTS

First, the words have been broken up, which should make it much easier.

Letters can be represented by either one or two digit numbers.

Look at the last word in each. Does it look a little too regular?

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ANSWER

First line:
Now is the winter of our discontent

Second:
Made glorious summer by this sun of York

The "words" at the end of each line are simply the key to each phrase: Shift the numbers corresponding to each letter up by 9, 7, 9, 5, 9, 3, 9, 1 and loop around for the first sentence, ditto for 13151719 on the second.

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)
  Subject Author Date
answerK Sengupta2007-12-23 06:40:28
re: Solution (no computer program used)Sam2004-01-10 10:31:03
SolutionSolution (no computer program used)Penny2004-01-10 00:53:15
re: -more Shakespeare linesTristan2004-01-09 19:44:44
More like a 5 difficulty.. and some thoughtsVictor Zapana2004-01-09 16:56:37
Some ThoughtsNot a cryptologist but . . .Dan Blume2004-01-09 16:46:14
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