Hints on Triple Entendre

[catherinelw]

I have checked out Bob Bemer, who invented ascii, Bill Blue who developed ascii express, and come up with nothing.
I thought Bill Blue was interesting because of his last name. Not that easy!
Did find the the closest color for #364971 was dark slate blue.
I am still stuck thinking the background color means something, but absolutely nothing supports this theory.
What shall I try next?

I also checked Bob Berner, but missed Bill Blue. I think the symbols themselves have some relevance--either their ASCII numbers or...something. I don't think they're just random. If all they wanted us to do was convert ASCII symbols to numbers, they could use whatever symbols they wanted. It seems like they chose these symbols because they point to...something. Like an acronym or another code that, when translated, would be a real word. And does the word "symbol" at the top point us to ASCII? Or does it give a clue to what character string below points to--ie, is the ultimate answer a name for a symbol?

(FYI, I converted the symbols to hex, which is CD 50 21 62 57. No go on that or the sum or the hex letters for the sum. I've also tried ASCII in l33t. Bonk.)

 

[catherinelw]

I have checked out Bob Bemer, who invented ascii, Bill Blue who developed ascii express, and come up with nothing.
I thought Bill Blue was interesting because of his last name. Not that easy!
Did find the the closest color for #364971 was dark slate blue.
I am still stuck thinking the background color means something, but absolutely nothing supports this theory.
What shall I try next?

Oh, and because the color is astonishingly close to Facebook blue, I looked up the hex color code: #3B5998. Nope.

 

[catherinelw]

Oh, and because the color is astonishingly close to Facebook blue, I looked up the hex color code: #3B5998. Nope.

And for those who don't already know, color codes are written in ASCII (dec or hex). I just realized this. However, all the color codes I know use three (RGB) or four (CMYK) values, not five. I've moved on to 80's music, because I'm so tired of thinking in ASCII. Holler if you make any progress.

 

[bonnie2]

I'm so tired of thinking in ASCII. Holler if you make any progress.

I'm tired of thinking in any language. I went over and over what I have already gone over and over and I can't believe how many times I entered the word ASCII just to see it be CBNC. I made a list of what I tried and then did not save the list. Not bemer-ross code. I spent a lot of time at bobbemer.com and found quite a few Facebook sites devoted to Ascii with no clues that popped out at me. It is also not plaintext, plain text, any of the standards of which there are about a million. In just a few days we'll be celebrating the second month of the upgrade. Can you believe it?

 

[Rosalee]

I'm tired of thinking in any language. I went over and over what I have already gone over and over and I can't believe how many times I entered the word ASCII just to see it be CBNC. I made a list of what I tried and then did not save the list. Not bemer-ross code. I spent a lot of time at bobbemer.com and found quite a few Facebook sites devoted to Ascii with no clues that popped out at me. It is also not plaintext, plain text, any of the standards of which there are about a million. In just a few days we'll be celebrating the second month of the upgrade. Can you believe it?

Two months x countless hours, x number of us ! And we have solved 4 out of 6 puzzles.

Can you spell S- T- U- P- I -D ?

I translated symbol to ascii and just came up with more numbers that mean nothing.

 

[catherinelw]

I can't believe how many times I entered the word ASCII just to see it be CBNC.

I find that so hilarious, because I do exactly the same thing. Has "That's very close" come up under CBNC before? Could that be their generic CBNC answer? Because if it was literally "very" close to "ascii", then I think we could've found the answer by now. Are the devs not responding to direct requests for hints anymore?

FYI, it isn't "usascii" or "us-ascii", the technical designation for our version of ASCII.

 

[bonnie2]

Are the devs not responding to direct requests for hints anymore?

James Porter said this: ".. I won't be putting any hints to any of these latest levels online. Congrats to anybody that has completed them. If we make future levels of triple entendre, I will try to make an effort to tone down the difficulty level a bit. That doesn't mean he won't respond, but he won't respond online.

This morning I, once again, entered the ascii for ÃP!bW - 205 80 33 98 87 with spaces, without spaces, added together. The other day I translated "that's very close" and again got what now seems like a flippant "nope".

 

[catherinelw]

Soooo, I'm now working on the 80's music edition, and am stuck on M14--the one with the world domination folks as the fingers on a hand with a black thumb, and the prompt asking "What Band?" Anyone want to help me?

 

[Rosalee]

Soooo, I'm now working on the 80's music edition, and am stuck on M14--the one with the world domination folks as the fingers on a hand with a black thumb, and the prompt asking "What Band?" Anyone want to help me?

Google all the names together (with ,s) and you will find what they all wanted to do. Use that with 80s band and you should get it.

 

[Hvsavage]

This morning I, once again, entered the ascii for ÃP!bW - 205 80 33 98 87.

ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding. That means that the decimal values for all characters are less than 128. Your encoding could be ASCII-8. UTF-8 is now the most popular encoding on the web. In UTF-8 the string would be 195 141 80 33 98 87.

 

[vhs]

While enjoying a few quiet moments I decided to go back to O77. Don't get excited because I am no closer to a good smoke. However, it may just move some brain cells to say that I tried a link between Waco and New York in that they both have suspension bridges by John A Roebling. Can't think of much else they have in common.

As for O81, I am sick to death of ASCII and all its derivatives. Are we looking for a code number, a date, a person, a logo or symbol? What I need is one of those password generators that can keep on feeding answers into the iPhone until the right one comes up by miraculous accident. Or alternatively another monkey hereabouts will do it for me (ironically)

Viv

 

[Mikecball]

While enjoying a few quiet moments I decided to go back to O77. Don't get excited because I am no closer to a good smoke. However, it may just move some brain cells to say that I tried a link between Waco and New York in that they both have suspension bridges by John A Roebling. Can't think of much else they have in common.

As for O81, I am sick to death of ASCII and all its derivatives. Are we looking for a code number, a date, a person, a logo or symbol? What I need is one of those password generators that can keep on feeding answers into the iPhone until the right one comes up by miraculous accident. Or alternatively another monkey hereabouts will do it for me (ironically)

Viv

Thanks Viv....almost forgot that there's life outside of ASCII.

I took another look at O77 and stumbled across Australian Capital Territory or ACT. If the images on the turtles' backs represent southwest to northeast, this could potentially make sense. Australia's capital, Canberra, is in ACT (southwest) and NYC is, of course, northeasterly. The road sign is the background seems to fit the theory. No CBNC's though, so I could be ridiculously off-base again....who knows?

 

[Hvsavage]

Thanks Viv....almost forgot that there's life outside of ASCII.

I took another look at O77 and stumbled across Australian Capital Territory or ACT. If the images on the turtles' backs represent southwest to northeast, this could potentially make sense. Australia's capital, Canberra, is in ACT (southwest) and NYC is, of course, northeasterly. The road sign is the background seems to fit the theory. No CBNC's though, so I could be ridiculously off-base again....who knows?

If the images on the turtles' backs are binary and you read the bits left to right top to bottom then they represent 15 2 4. Squeeze those into 1524 and you have the date Verrazzano sailed into New York Harbor. The turtles are a variety of pond turtles, so the image might represent crossing the pond from Northeast to Southwest.

 

[bonnie2]

If the images on the turtles' backs are binary and you read the bits left to right top to bottom then they represent 15 2 4. Squeeze those into 1524 and you have the date Verrazzano sailed into New York Harbor. The turtles are a variety of pond turtles, so the image might represent crossing the pond from Northeast to Southwest.

Er, that would be SI STX EOT?

 

[catherinelw]

Google all the names together (with ,s) and you will find what they all wanted to do. Use that with 80s band and you should get it.

Whoa. Got it. Capitalization is key. (I've never had that happen before!)