HINT for Challenge #2: If it’s not Math or English…

What, then? History? Physics? Esperanto?

How important is this guide? How common is it? Should I even bother with it, or should I ignore it and try to decode the ciphertext without the guide?

Ok- contest closed. Someone got the answer.

Challenge #1 completed: Professor Falkon, Swordo, Quantumenergy, Zagerblag, FalCon

Challenge #2 ompleted: Quantumenergy, and FalCon (although kinda disqualified… sorry)

So our winner is Quantumenergy who gets 3 bp.

Now, for those of you who aren’t ****ed off you didn’t win and are still reading I suppose it would be fair to tell you solution.

#1: As I said the space meant nothing so it could be read likes this:

“13,18,16,8,7,18,15,7,8,22,15,11,14,6,9”

First translate them into letters:

“MRPHGROGHVOKNFI”

Now the trickiest part people had a problem with. Use the reverse alphabet:

“NIKSTLITSELPMUR”

From there it should be easy pickin’s just spelling it backwards:

“Rumplestiltskin”

I have been informed that that it not the correct spelling of the name… but hey if you got that far, you know what it was. There was a misspelling on wikipedia.

Ok Challenge #2: Thinking outside the box I decided to throw a curve ball. If it’s not English, math … what could it be. SCIENE. In this case Chemistry. And what do we find in Chem clbum? The periodic table of elements. D’oh! Yeah, I know didn’t see that coming. I’m sure that ****es off at least one of you people… not naming names.

Now, if you spell it all out, it isn’t quite legible. That’s where the minus signs come in. If the number had a subtraction sign, subtract the letter that corresponds to number from the letter before it. So for example 63-92 = EU-U = E

What did it spell out:

“What letter isn’t on the periodic table?”

The correct answer is J. Well, that is if you include element 114 which the only that has a Q. But those are yet to be properly named. But no “J”s… yet.

Note: I made a slight error I believe. It spelt out: what letter isn’t on the perriodic table? But once again if you got that far than you should know what the question was.

So congratulations to everyone that participated, I know it wasn’t easy. But you did well. Until next time!

Awesome! Thanks guys! I’ll host another hacker contest soon. Stay tuned!