The Missing Mr. E*
*(reference from a Cowpattybill/Cluechaser game, will include link once his site has been repaired)
Little neurons fired this afternoon and I came up with a dilemma. The text of K4 is either not complete enough (thank you Gary Phillips) or masked (tip of the hat to Ed Scheidt). There’s a ton of e’s in the Morse Code and only 2 in K4.
It’s a simple enough solution but that’s no guarantee it’s worth much.
I have therefore proposed, a Merger.
Jam the Morse code and K4 together. I’m not 100% sure of the number of extraneous e’s but in a perfect world we would be left with 200 letters in total (life is never perfect so I doubt it’s that easy). There’s a lot of fun to be had with a big ole even grid of 200 but before the fun and games get started, I thought I’d invite a little feedback to see if the idea has been attempted and if it’s reasonable.
Unless I hear any compelling reasons not to, I’ll probably pursue this line of reasoning for a short distance to see if there’s anything to come of it.
As with any of my ideas, there’s a certain appeal to it and a variety of questions and problems are resolved but as we’ve seen that is no guarantee of anything.
We can always hope. “…and hope does not disappoint…”
So cheers to new ideas and the relentless pursuit of a Kryptos solution. Drink it up even to the dregs, boys and girls, it’s not over yet.
I have never heard this idea before. Go for it! I like it.
Just to warn you and everyone else, I’m going to ASSUME that there are only 22 extra e’s. That’s because there’s not much I can do with 203 letters. Although I guess I could factor it out to a 7×29 grid and use KRYPTOS for a keyed-columnar… See! It’s too easy to try and try and try. There must be a clue within this massive glob of letters that says, “Hey, hey buddy, hey you there…say, why don’t give the ole you-know-what a try? Couldn’t hurt, eh?”. Otherwise it’s just guesswork and while that’s invigorating and keeps us busy, it’s far from precise. There has to be some logical motive behind the solutions. It has to make sense. Otherwise we could just BS some solution and claim that we’d done it. Perhaps I’m expecting too much but I’m not sure it really is too much to expect a sort of A-to-B-to-C-final solution. It’s not THAT philosophical that there wouldn’t be an answer. I hope Sanborn wasn’t into Lao Tzu…