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someone help me, I'm losing my mind!!

I'm totally stuck on this riddle.

yei h nwrt h is ide
tp ntease otefrtrdl

that's all it says. No instruction.

Posted by jodi on 4 juin 2004 14h04 |

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maybe a substitution cipher? e is the most common letter in the english language, given a big enough sample. i and a are the only single-letter words. that's usually enough to get it going.

Posted by: arifa | 6 juin 2004 12h01

now i'm thinking it may be an offset thing... let me give it a try =)

Posted by: arifa | 6 juin 2004 12h05

i found a place online in which you can enter text to decode for simple off set codes. nothing. and the substitution thing didn't work out either. i tried that first.

someone on the riddleplanet forum gave me the clue "it's very literal"

i still don't get it.

Posted by: jodi | 6 juin 2004 21h23

yeah - i tried those too... nothing. i'll need to look at it some more later, but i am buried under lots of work. i am ready to throw my laptop at several people... and i can't even pinpoint whom, exactly, which is making it worse. i am grumpy in the biggest way.

Posted by: arifa | 7 juin 2004 15h07

do you think it has something to do with "tease"? maybe like tease it out or some other lame phrase that includes that word? or strip tease or something? i have no idea how it could be either of those things, but that just stands out way too much.

Posted by: arifa | 8 juin 2004 4h37

on the riddle planet forum, someone put up an old thread about this question. it wasn't there earlier. I found the hints I needed to finally answer it. And I can tell you this much, the word TEASE has nothing to do with it. That word is literally a tease.

now i am stumped on riddle 15.

Posted by: jodi | 8 juin 2004 16h45

So? What is it? You've got to throw those of us with no riddle smarts a bone, Jodes.

Posted by: Romy | 8 juin 2004 23h12

yes, throw us a frickin' bone here!

Posted by: loon | 9 juin 2004 10h50

oh, ok. first of all, it is a letter scramble, of sorts. not a substitution code. so don't bother trying to find out if H stands for "I" or "a"

you ned to look at it differently. the first letter you need is T. the first letter of the second line. and then, think about how you paint a wall. starting from the bottom you move up, then down, then up, then down, and so on.

Posted by: jodi | 9 juin 2004 10h54

Got it!! Cool.

Posted by: Jodie | 11 juin 2004 11h58

Um.........?? I get what you're saying, Jodi, but I am still getting lost after the word "ten".....???

I feel so dumb right now. =(

Posted by: Romy | 11 juin 2004 12h56

the first word is not ten. and every letter is used.

Posted by: jodi | 11 juin 2004 13h01

Dammit! Back to the drawing board.

Posted by: Romy | 11 juin 2004 21h32

Ok, got it. PHEW!

Posted by: Romy | 11 juin 2004 21h35