I've been banging my head on this one again. The only thing concrete is what I'm banging my head on. at 9/23/10 9:20am garbot1 found another packet. At 9/23/2010 9:36a, cjsbug decode the word and came up with 'LOCK'. at 7:26pm garbot1 one says: Hmm... It appears that my Memory Bank A is locked!! Who can help?! Good Luck! It is now 9/24/2010 1:09a, not another peep from anyone else since garbot1, and I still have nothing firm. I have only two observations, altho I have by trial and error tried a bunch of ideas and came up with nothing, so: 1) garbot1 says 'It appears that my Memory Bank A is locked', the word 'appears' could be significant here, saying it only looks like its locked or that there is other visual clues in the picture. 2.) garbot1 says, 'Who can help!?', taken literally the answer may be someone or something that can help solve/fix his problem. oh ya, a 3rd) since the alphabet decoder was used, maybe it needs to be modified in some way to solve this. there might also be other clues in previous puzzles, but at this point I think that is reaching for a solution. I'm still brain fried from the last one. Need to get some sleep. Good luck everyone. I probably won't be working on it much tomorrow, will be gone most of the day.
I wish I knew how to solve this puzzle... If only I could unlock my memory bank! Hmm... Maybe... if we all worked together... the combination of all of our efforts would provide the solution?! Yes! Teamwork is the key!
Hmm... Wonder if it's a combination of our names. Maybe the last top 10 list. I'm on my iPhone so its a little tricky to try that. Maybe someone else can.
When the puzzle was first revealed, garbot1 asked "Who can help me decipher this?" This lead me to believe that the puzzle involved a cipher. That hypothesis was further supported by the facts that the four rectangles at the top of the puzzle were decoded to LOCK (based on a previous puzzle) and that many ciphers require a key (which could be used to unlock a LOCK). When garbot1's last post mentioned "Teamwork is the key!", I started to try to decode MEMORY BANK A trying many different types of ciphers using TEAMWORK as the key (Bifid, Keyed Caesar, One Time Pad, Playfair, ROT-13, Substitution, Unch, Vignere, Keyed Vignere, and Vignere Autokey). I'm sorry to say that after spending a lot of time pursuing this route, I am no further along now than I was after LOCK was revealed. I don't know where I'm heading next, but I thought I'd fill you all in on my journey thus far. Good Luck Everyone!
I'm now noticing that garbot1 said that the "combination" of all of our efforts would provide the solution. Combination lock?...
Basically you're coming up with the same ideas I'm trying to kick around. The only thing I keep going back to tho is that the picture has to have enough clues to solve the puzzle (including the fact that you have to remember how to decode the word). I'm assuming garbot1's input is gentle nudges with 'key' 'combination' 'teamwork' and the like but again the picture should provide everything we need. Well here's to going back and staring at it some more.
Does anyone think the shape around Memory Bank A slightly resembles a battery? I guess it doesn't mean anything though.
Wow! It looks like you guys have hit a brick wall... I thought you'd have found a solution straight away! Hmm... I wish I knew how to help... ... I still think that a combination of your efforts would help unlock my memory bank! Who knows... maybe it's easier than you think it is? Heck! We'll probably find out that the solution is as easy as A B C... ... or something like that Good Luck!
Well it has to be something in regards to a combination lock. I have tried numerous attempts with no success. Is it 3 or 4 or 10 digits or other amount, or does it use a combination of our names, is it alphabetical, capitalized, numerical, the numbers within some of our names, information from the picture with Memory Bank A or in the picture it looks like a battery or a door, colours of silver green and black, our teamwork, some info from past puzzles? The one post that was not a hint had GRAND PRIZE capitalized so maybe A.R. Hover Drone could be connected somehow. decipher safe combination lock = four digits? easy as ABC... = 3 digits? help teamwork
So I tried all combinations of the letters LOCK: LOCK, LOKC, LCOK, LCKO, LKOC, LKCO OLCK, OLKC, OCLK, OCKL, OKLC, OKCL CLOK, CLKO, COLK, COKL, CKLO, CKOL KLOC, KLCO, KOLC, KOCL, KCLO, KCOL Nuthin'.....
A combination lock can have either letters or numbers but not both. The letters l o c k have values of 12 15 11 03 in the alphabet. If combination is taken literally, these values add up to 41 (one less than 42). If it is a letter combination lock, it could be 4 letters, with each letter in the key corresponding with the letters in "lock"
Attempts and questions, from today, you really don't want to know everything else I've tried before this so far, but maybe these will jog some elses brain: 1. so is the solution going to be uppercase, lowercase or a mixture? the italized "lock" is in lowercase but the 'A B C' is in uppercase. 2. is the solution going to be 1 word, or 4 individual letters,seperated by '/'? 3. what does "easy as A B C...or something like that" mean? "1 2 3" "pi (easy as pie)" 3142 4. the wording "found a solution straight away!" bothers me, normally a person (atleast an american, and yes I know there is other nationalities present) would say 'right' instead of 'straight', so it would read 'right away'. combination locks use right and left turns of the dial? anything here? or am I reaching again? 5.further more the word 'straight' in poker means in order (i.e 6-7-8-9-10) possible nother hint here? I also tried various combinations of lock including lowercase, also tried the numerical methods on 'lock' including ascii values, hex and still nothing here. I actually thought I might have something, but so far it hasn't panned out, but I think would have been a hilarious solution. The word I was trying was 'CAPS'. As in CapsLock. I've tried quite a few combinations with this but nothing so far. Another goodone could have been 'Sher' as in Sherlock Holmes, still nothing. other halloffamers DEADBEEF OPENSESAME Not sure how many ideas I have left.
Hear you loud and clear. I'm actually rooting for anyone else to get this, just so we can move on. Its funny how the last problem seemed so hard because there was so much going on. But now we look at this puzzle and because of the lack of information, there is so many more possibilities. I forgot I was going to mention this but do you know that a combination lock is not really a combination lock? by definition it is really a 'sequence' lock.
