Copycat - Card 4
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Clue 1
That's not just random snow on the jacket.
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Clue 2
It's a message, but where's the key?
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Clue 3
Look closely at the rest of the card.
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Clue 4
The Dylan Thomas poem section may help.
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Clue 5
Pay closest attention to the snow that falls on the letters.
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Solution
Final Solution: Different letters in the poem have different patterns of snow on them. Those patterns are repeated on the jacket. Matching letters, the jacket spells: Todd Hill
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Clue 1
These snowflake patterns appear on both sides of the card.
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Clue 2
How many symbols appear on the front?
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Clue 3
26... like an alphabet.
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Solution
Final Solution: The snowflakes on the front are your alphabet. Using that alphabet, you can decode the back to get the plaintext: "I am an expert in pain and I torture the truth out of folk."
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Clue 1
This is a spin on a classic.
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Clue 2
Speaking of spin, notice the "rotation" reference in the message between the two ciphers.
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Clue 3
Find your rotation 1 and climb from there.
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Solution
Final Solution: Each "mountain" is made of up of steadily increasing rotation ciphers, starting with rotation-1 at the base and increasing by 2 with each line. The decoded plaintext reads: "I work all around the world but am largely based out of Paris and our HQ. I also recently made the acquaintance of your friend JC."
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