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Grimbal
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William passed away ... again ... after a prolonged illness. In his will, he wrote ... again ... to his son David that all his money was ... again ... in a safe. All David had to do ... again ... was to guess the password of the safe. The password, he wrote, consisted of 6 letters and the hint to the password was:
VEDUEUTEL......
Forgive me if I sound gotit when he sounds like like Iceman. 
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #1 on: Oct 17th, 2008, 4:09pm » |
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VDUUTL?
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #2 on: Oct 18th, 2008, 2:36pm » |
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No. I would normally say "good guessing" but it doesn't look like that to me.
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #3 on: Oct 18th, 2008, 3:34pm » |
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I took note of the "..again.." as a hint and removed the most repeated letter "E" to receive a six-letter combination.
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Grimbal
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #4 on: Oct 19th, 2008, 2:51pm » |
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Ah. Good try then.
The ... again ... is just because another riddle uses the same story. But the repetition of E's is a good start to investigate.
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #5 on: Oct 21st, 2008, 8:36am » |
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Maybe a hint?
9 = 3*3
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #6 on: Oct 21st, 2008, 10:15am » |
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on Oct 17th, 2008, 1:42pm, Grimbal wrote:William passed away ... again ...
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How can William pass away twice?
Anyways, square?
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #8 on: Oct 21st, 2008, 11:53am » |
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VUTDUL?
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #9 on: Oct 21st, 2008, 4:00pm » |
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on Oct 21st, 2008, 10:15am, gotit wrote:
How can William pass away twice?
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When I am too lazy to change the names...
Anyway, it's a start. What could you put in the square?
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iono
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #10 on: Oct 22nd, 2008, 7:09pm » |
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VED
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TE L
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So, if I help you, I'll get kicked for ksing, but if I don't, then I'll get kick for not helping...
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #11 on: Oct 24th, 2008, 6:26am » |
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Good. Now do you see a pattern?
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #12 on: Oct 24th, 2008, 8:31pm » |
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the three e's in the middle?
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #13 on: Oct 25th, 2008, 1:36am » |
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The middle row and middle column contains only vowels and the corners are consonants.
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #14 on: Oct 27th, 2008, 2:11am » |
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Hm... it starts to look like a "guess what I think" riddle. And my hints seem to send you in the wrong direction.
Let's put it that way:
V, E, D, U, E, U, T, E, L, ..., ..., ..., ..., ..., ...
find the pattern.
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #15 on: Oct 27th, 2008, 5:19am » |
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VED
UEU
TEL
SEC
RET
QEK
PEB
OES
NEJ
MEA
LER
KEI
JEZ
IEQ
HEH
GEY
FEP
EEG
DEX
CEO
BEF
AEW
ZEN
YEE
XEV
WEM
VED
UEU
TEL
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So I'll guess it's either "SECRET" or "QEKPEB" -- the former if William was trying to be clever; the latter if he was more security conscious.
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #16 on: Oct 27th, 2008, 7:31am » |
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Thanks, SMQ, you got it! Your first guess is the answer.
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #17 on: Oct 27th, 2008, 4:47pm » |
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how'd you get that
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #18 on: Oct 27th, 2008, 5:24pm » |
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Look at the three columns separately...
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #19 on: Oct 28th, 2008, 5:41pm » |
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still dont get the third one...
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Re: Password 1
« Reply #20 on: Oct 28th, 2008, 10:29pm » |
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on Oct 27th, 2008, 4:47pm, iono wrote:
look at YOUR OWN post more carefully...
I liked it grimbal- sorry it complete snuck under my radar there.
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