What does this mean?

---+ +    +   \   *  /       ---+ + 
   | |    |    \    /           | |
   | |    |     \  /            | |
   + +--- +---   \/             + +---
           

   + \   *  /       \      / +---+  /
   |  \    /         \    /  |   | / 
   |   \  /           \  /   |   | \*
---+    \/             \/    +---+  \


   + \   *  /       \   *  / +---+ +
   |  \    /         \    /    * | | 
   |   \  /           \  /       | |
---+    \/             \/    +---+ +---


+--- +---+ \   *  /    /\
| *  |   |  \    /    /  \
|    |   |   \  /    /    \
+    +---+    \/    /   *  \

 

(In reply to hint by alex)

Alex is trying to portray this:

A B C      J K L         S            W
D E F       MNO        T U         X Y
G H I       PQ R         V            Z     

This looks great but it does not solve the puzzle by simple substitution.

Words 4 and 6 don't make sense to me, and in actuality I have played only with substitutions, like the double letters in the first word are either "OO", "EE" or some double consonant.

I haven't yet decided if some simple Caesar shift has been applied here, or if there has been a random substitution, notwithstanding of course some other devilment; the 4th word reads YES backwards using the above table.

After seeing a later note it was words 4 and 7 that were causing difficulty, not 4 and 6.

Edited on September 23, 2006, 1:20 am

Posted by brianjn on 2006-09-22 19:21:53