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(Message started by: Sonoffath on Dec 15^th, 2007, 11:51pm)

Title: Visual Co-ordinate Puzzle
Post by Sonoffath on Dec 15^th, 2007, 11:51pm

Hello. the following puzzle I have been unable to solve for many days, and collaboration among my friends has proved fruitless, so I came to find someone out on the internet who could possibly shine some light on this.

I was provided with the following co-ordinates:
(30,85) (34,79) (38,70) (40,81) (41,90) (47,74) (47,83) (47,91) (51,79) (54,93) (58,77) (59,75) (62,89) (63,81) (68,88) (69,77) (69,94) (70,86) (73,81) (73,88) (77,74) (79,93) (82,83) (86,72) (89,92) (90,79) (94,86) (97,81) (98,94) (100,81) (104,76) (104,85) (107,79) (110,73) (113,94) (116,74) (119,95) (120,88) (121,82) (123,76) (125,97) (127,90) (129,83)

They were presented in no particular order. I have ordered them for ease of use.
In the attached image, I have the points plotted. I realise that this does not follow the normal format of larger y values being up. There were other points related to another puzzle on this same plane, and based on them, this is the proper orientatation. I have removed these other points, as they are otherwise irrelevant to this. This is also based on the upper left hand point being (0,0)
Other information which I can provide is that the number 977 may be involved. This is only a guess and may be related to one of the other area puzzles.

I believe that there is some sort of instructions somehow given within the points.

I have placed this in the Medium forum, as there may be something that I am missing, and it would be quite trivial for you to solve it, but I am quite sure it is not 'Easy'.
If I am in any way doing something wrong with this posting, I am sorry and please inform me.

Thank you for your time and hopefully help.

Title: Re: Visual Co-ordinate Puzzle
Post by towr on Dec 16^th, 2007, 7:04am

Are you sure the order the coordinates were given in wasn't important?
And for that matter, are you sure they're coordinates?

Title: Re: Visual Co-ordinate Puzzle
Post by Sonoffath on Dec 17^th, 2007, 12:33am

Those are the facts of which we are most sure.
If you can find anything with them not being co-ordinates, that would be most interesting.
What are you thinking they may be instead?

Title: Re: Visual Co-ordinate Puzzle
Post by towr on Dec 17^th, 2007, 3:11am

I thought they might encode letters.
The second of each coordinates falls almost inside the range for lowercase letters in ascii code; unfortunately there are a few that fall outside it.