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XOR (Posted on 2005-10-22) Difficulty: 2 of 5
What 10 letter word corresponds to the below statement?

Skanky Fora Merscort Frailear Zigiondoup.

(Hint: The words are independent from each other.)

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None of these seem to work | Comment 1 of 27

XORing each letter with a given number doesn't work; nor does XORing each letter with the previous (in the low order 5 bits); nor does XORing all the letters of a word into one letter do anything:

Rj`ojx Gns` Ldsrbnsu Gs`hmd`s [hfhnoentq
Qicli{ Dmpc Ogpqampv Dpckngcp Xkekmlfmwr
Phbmhz Elqb Nfqp`lqw Eqbjofbq Yjdjlmglvs
Woejo} Bkve Iavwgkvp Bvemhaev ^mcmkj`kqt
Vndkn| Cjwd H`wvfjwq Cwdli`dw _lbljkajpu
Umghm⌂ @itg Kctueitr @tgojcgt \oaoihbisv
Tlfil~ Ahuf Jbutdhus Aufnkbfu ]n`nhichrw
[cifcq Ngzi Emz{kgz| Nziadmiz Raoagflg}x
Zbhgbp Of{h Dl{zjf{} O{h`elh{ S`n`fgmf|y
Yakdas Lexk Goxyiex~ Lxkcfokx Pcmcedne⌂z
X`je`r Mdyj Fnyxhdy⌂ Myjbgnjy Qblbdeod~{
_gmbgu Jc~m Ai~⌂oc~x J~me`im~ Vekecbhcy|
^flcft Kb⌂l @h⌂~nb⌂y K⌂ldahl⌂ Wdjdbcibx}
]eo`ew Ha|o Ck|}ma|z H|ogbko| Tgiga`ja{~
\dnadv I`}n Bj}|l`}{ I}nfcjn} Ufhf`ak`z⌂
C{q~{i V⌂bq ]ubcs⌂bd Vbqy|uqb Jywy⌂~t⌂e`
Bzp⌂zh W~cp \tcbr~ce Wcpx}tpc Kxvx~⌂u~da
Ays|yk T}`s _w`aq}`f T`s{~ws` H{u{}|v}gb
@xr}xj U|ar ^va`p|ag Uarz⌂vra Iztz|}w|fc
G⌂uz⌂m R{fu Yqfgw{f` Rfu}xquf N}s}{zp{ad
F~t{~l Szgt Xpgfvzga Sgt|yptg O|r|z{qz`e
E}wx}o Pydw [sdeuydb Pdw⌂zswd L⌂q⌂yxrycf
D|vy|n Qxev Zredtxec Qev~{rve M~p~xysxbg
Ksyvsa ^wjy U}jk{wjl ^jyqt}yj Bq⌂qwv|wmh
Jrxwr` _vkx T|kjzvkm _kxpu|xk Cp~pvw}vli
Iq{tqc \uh{ W⌂hiyuhn \h{sv⌂{h @s}sut~uoj
Hpzupb ]tiz V~ihxtio ]izrw~zi Ar|rtu⌂tnk
Ow}rwe Zsn} Qyno⌂snh Zn}upy}n Fu{usrxsil
Nv|svd [ro| Pxon~roi [o|tqx|o Gtztrsyrhm
Mu⌂pug Xql⌂ S{lm}qlj Xl⌂wr{⌂l Dwywqpzqkn
Lt~qtf Ypm~ Rzml|pmk Ym~vsz~m Evxvpq{pjo
Sxjoer Fi}s Mhwapl}f Ftsheids Zsnnfajkze
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s$ = "Skanky Fora Merscort Frailear Zigiondoup"
CLS
FOR m = 1 TO 31
  FOR i = 1 TO LEN(s$)
   IF MID$(s$, i, 1) = " " THEN
    PRINT " ";
   ELSE
    PRINT CHR$(ASC(MID$(s$, i, 1)) XOR m);
   END IF
  NEXT
  PRINT
NEXT m
PRINT

  prev = 0
  FOR i = 1 TO LEN(s$)
   IF MID$(s$, i, 1) = " " THEN
    PRINT " ";
    prev = 0
   ELSE
    PRINT CHR$(ASC(MID$(s$, i, 1)) XOR (prev AND 31));
    prev = ASC(MID$(s$, i, 1))
   END IF
  NEXT
  PRINT

  prev = 0
  FOR i = 1 TO LEN(s$)
   IF MID$(s$, i, 1) = " " THEN
    PRINT CHR$(prev);
    prev = 0
   ELSE
    prev = (ASC(MID$(s$, i, 1)) XOR (prev AND 31))
   END IF
  NEXT
  PRINT CHR$(prev)
  PRINT

 


  Posted by Charlie on 2005-10-22 11:00:03
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