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ABBA On The Lean (Posted on 2009-01-01) Difficulty: 3 of 5
77467 74674 44769 !4649 44436 !9669 96868 69648 96486 84832 43325 32255 2555?

Notes:
1. If you are not an avid fan, this may not give you a tingle.
2. Other necessary punctuation has not been encoded.
3. The inability to emulate a technology will require some informed guesswork; but all cryptographers must engage in that anyway.

  Submitted by brianjn    
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There are 65 characters grouped in fives.
The title has a length of 13 characters.
Place each group as a column beneath each letter of the titular keyword.
ABBAONTHELEAN
774!4!9698432
7444496964325
4676468648325
6764366483255
749969886255?
Read the numbers from the grid from left to right on the rising diagonal to get:
777444664!777444664!94499936666689996668844448883363322222555555?

With spacings the numbers correspond to the SMS codes of letters of the alphabet; it is not possible here to demarcate when two or more letters using the same numeral follow each other, hence the need for guesswork.
 R   I   N G !  R   I   N G ! W  H  Y  D  O   N T  Y   O   U 
777 444 66 4 ! 777 444 66 4 ! 9 44 999 3 666 66 8 999 666 88  

G  I   V   E M  E A  C  A  L   L  ?
4 444 888 33 6 33 2 222 2 555 555 ?
"Ring! Ring! Why don't you give me a call?" - a catchy chorus line from the ABBA group's song incorporated in "Mama Mia".

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  Subject Author Date
Some ThoughtsPuzzle ThoughtsK Sengupta2023-04-24 00:11:22
re(2): ABBA? ET too?rod hines2009-01-19 14:00:50
re: ABBA? ET too?brianjn2009-01-19 06:10:41
SolutionABBA? ET too?rod hines2009-01-18 12:12:51
re: My ABBA 'Waterloo'!!brianjn2009-01-15 18:35:51
My ABBA 'Waterloo'!!rod hines2009-01-15 16:01:49
re: call me confusedbrianjn2009-01-13 23:30:52
re: call me confusedbrianjn2009-01-11 23:30:54
call me confusedGamer2009-01-11 21:45:47
re: Well...Since that call?brianjn2009-01-11 05:19:23
re: Well...?brianjn2009-01-03 08:19:50
Well...?rod hines2009-01-02 20:03:33
re: Hmmm...brianjn2009-01-02 19:55:26
Some ThoughtsHmmm...Sing4TheDay2009-01-02 14:25:06
re: Notesbrianjn2009-01-02 04:23:36
NotesGamer2009-01-02 03:48:03
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