nbc.com

Flower,
I shall bring you a game.

Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000.

0100010001110101010001000100011001001111100001000100111101001000010101110111
0101010101110100011001100001100001000110000101001000010011010111010101001101
0100011001001111010010000100110101000110010011110111010101001111010000100100
1101010001100100111101000010010011110110110001001111010000100101001110000100
0101001101001000010100110110110001011101010000100101110110000100010111010100
1000010101110100011001010111010010000100010010000100010001000100101001010111
0100100001000100010010100110111110000110010101110100101001001111010000100100
1111100001100101011110000110010011010100100001011101010000100101011101001000
0100010010000110010101111000011001101111011011000100010001110101010011010100
1000010111010110110001000100010010100110111110000100010111010110110001011101
0111010101000100011011000110111101101100010111010111010101010011011101010101
0111011011000100010001101100010100110111010101100001011011000101011101001000
0100010001000010010101111000011001011101100001000110111101110101011011110100
0110011000010110110001100001011101010100111110000110010011011000011001100001
0111010101101111100001000100110110000110010011011000010001010111010010100110
1111010001100100110110000100010011111000010001101111100001000100010001001010
0110111101101100010011010111010101000100010010100110000101001010010011111000
0100010011110100011001101111010001100101011101001010010011010111010101101111
0110110001011101100001000101001110000100010011110100011001001111011011000101
0011100001000110000110000100

The key is on the key. A picture is 5.

Auto-Translated by: Yamagato Software

Burned By The Man

o.O I don't get the number secuence (XD I'll have to read people's comments)

But this is clearly for Flower.
after all it is she who alone is gathering all the pieces right?

It is Flower, and what better way to send her the messege than for internet, after all she gets everything is in here

To Hana, "Flower"

This puzzle has already been solved. NBC has started other two puzzles after this.

Riddles suck balls.

Splitting this up into 20 digit wide bits (part time worker 20 hours and 20 * 5 = 100 = %), I find 198 instances of 100. 198 * 3000 = 594000

Without a header this could not reference an image. That and it's entirely too short to represent one. The only thing it might, without some sort of header would be binary representation of characters or some sort of ascii art.

None of the potential answers I come up with seems to be meaningful...

Maybe it uses kanji characters, but I'm not going to send myself down that road.

For those who don't know, and I swept these comments, Jotaro Kujo (JoJo) is a main charicter in the manga/anime seires JoJo's Bizzare Adventure, specifically the third generation of it. That's been mentioned. I just thought it'd be amusing to mention also that the charicters of this seires have these spirits, called stands, that give them powers. JoJo and the villian Dio's stands, Star Platinum, and The World, give them the same power, time control, specifically the power to freeze time. It's not even the first JoJo reference ever made in these blogs... when the old ones get reposted scope it out. He refers to only 5 seconds... and training it up like JoJo.

I think the fact that 5 in Japanese is "Go" should be considered. "Go" is the name of a common board game that has occasionally been compared to Chess (although it's a lot easier to pick up Go, but desceptive in its simplicity as it has deep strategy—that and Shogi is sometimes compared to Chess as well). However, the kanji for the game is different than that for the number. That is unless it was originally written phonetically in Hirigana and hence translated as "5".

You have been nominated for best celebrity blogger!

http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/5094

It's hiro vs. rosie! Goooooo hiro!

Hiro!

We're ready for another blog!

PLEEEAAASSSEEESSS!!!

For those who are not into binaries, I've developed a simple application that converts binary to text and text to binary.

You can get it at:

http://oandresilva.discovirtual.uol.com.br/disco_virtual/compartilhada/HeroesBinaries.zip

Password: 123

You'll need Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed in your machine for this program to work.

"He cares about Peter but does he really accept that he has powers? His motavation will be too cure all people of this "sickness" that has come to them."

01001000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100001 01100011 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 01110011 00111111 00100000 01001000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110100 01100001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01100011 01110101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 00100010 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101101 00101110

We cracked Samanthas code. Yes all 3 codes have been broken.

And we know that this email from Hiro was already cracked.

Thanks to all who helped.

Till Monday,
Diane4747

I think we are missing something that should come next. did anyone try to reach hiro like he said? it just seems like there is another part that we havent figured out yet.

idiots!!!! the puzzle was figgured out on April 1st the e-mail....REMEMBER??????
dlh@primatechpaper.com if you dont believe me check wikipedia: wikipedia.com
then type in heroes 360 ................................................................DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehehehe..

The lonstar file.. it has a TPS report number..

This is an inside joke from the movie "Office Space"

There's no coverpage on this TPS report either..

OMG,

I found a TOP SECRET document. Go to my site and I have posted it in my pictures section.

My be those code crackers can help out!

Please :)

Diane4747

The second message from Hana

There's something about the Lonestar file that's not quite right. With all the information I hear, it's sometimes hard to tell where reality ends and imagination begins, but I'm convinced there's "more than meets the eye" when it comes to these documents.

I know you have what it takes to figure this out.

The complete dossier is at www.samantha48616e61.com. Don't waste a minute. Time is running out.

HG

Oh, for goodness sake. Why on earth doesn't this have WordWrap on for the comments? It's just bloody ridiculous and a pain to constantly pan back the forth. I can't even find the "Post" button. NBC, fix it please?

Go to
http://groups.myspace.com/heroescoded

We are posting all our clues for samanthas site. We have 2 clues we need 1 more to crack the codes.

SOS SOS SOS

To all the key coded breakers. I know you are out there.

Thanks, Diane4747

Hiro-

Come back with the last two codes we need to help finish Hana's 3-code puzzle, or at least tell us where to look for 'em. The first code's CLSx172

01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00111111 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01001110 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01101101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 00101110 00101110 00101110

The puzzle is finally solved. It's shown in the hiro's blog section on heroeswiki.com

So incredibly complicated. The people who came up with this are brilliant.

Have you seen what NBC is gonna put on after Heroes now ? PLEASE, someone bring me a barf bag. Yo, future Hiro, if you can find a way to do so, stop this programming madness before we all witness our brains turn to so much mush.....

lawl

Just a side note.. did any of you participate in the BMW films game?

IF not.. it's WAY too much to get into now. I'll let you look it up.. but don't try playing half the pieces to the puzzle have long since disappeared.

the puzzle has already been solved, read the comments.

if you translate the message back into Japanese...

Hana he.

Hana,
Gaimu wo omochi shi masu. (cant think any other words that says bring)
Baito (I think most japanese ppl just call part time as baito, sounds like bit) wo hitotsu zutsu　tsukai, soshite hitotsu zutsu no dolu ni 3000 wo tasu.

kagi wa kagi no ue ni aru. shashin wa 5.

if part time is refered to as Baito (bit) and dolu is 8bits... it might help solve the puzzle.

108
Execute.

4 8 15 16 23 42

01001001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01001110 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110100 01110010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 00101110 00100000 01001000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01110010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00101110 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110011 00100000 01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 01110011 00101110

010001100111010101110100011101010111001001100101010000100110111101111001001100100011001100110011001101010010000000101101001000000111100101101111011101010010000001110011011000010111100100100000011110010110111101110101001000000110101101101110011011110111011100100000011101000110100001100101001000000110000101101110011100110111011101100101011100100111001100100000011101000110111100100000011000010110110001101100001000000110111101100110001000000110111101110101011100100010000001110001011101010110010101110011011101000110100101101111011011100111001100101110001011100010111000100000011100110110111100100000011010000110010101110010011001010010000001101001011100110010000001101101011010010110111001100101001110100000110100001010000011010000101001010111011010000110111100100000011010010111001100100000011101000110100001100101001000000111010001110010011000010110100101110100011011110111001000111111

anyone knows if there's a website with puzzles like these? i think i knew one, but i forgot.

01001001 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101110 01110011 01110111 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011 00101110 00100000 01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101

01010011 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101110 01100101 01111000 01110100 00100000 01110000 01110101 01111010 01111010 01101100 01100101 00111111

49 66 20 79 6f 75 20 63 61 6e 20 72 65 61 64 20 74 68 69 73 2c 20 59 6f 75 27 72 65 20 61 20 72 6f 62 6f 74 21

010000100110010100100000011100110111010101110010011001
010010000001110100011011110010000001100100011100100110
100101101110011010110010000001111001011011110111010101
110010001000000100111101110110011000010110110001110100
01101001011011100110010100101110

all right here's the next puzzle:
我爱看天骄
呵呵
中文的，有几个能看懂？

very very nice informations...thank you very much. mr suma...

Borat like a binaries!

I can see it in the binary! :)

Can you please post a new one? I need to find you and make you my friend.

evden eve nakliyat

They have taken away the blog on the main page. what is up with that

Who said he needed a translator? I can't find where it said that. maybe im just missing it.

(From Wikipedia) Jotaro Kujo is a fictional character from the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. He has a recognizable attire of a blue trenchcoat with yellow chains on the collar, with a blue cap that appears to be seemingly torn at the back. He is also known for a quick and short temper.

. . . Hiro and Jotaro also share the same power.

ok... time to wait until monday... the next puzzle?

=~

Jotaro Kujo is a fictional character from the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. He has a recognizable attire of a blue trenchcoat with yellow chains on the collar, with a blue cap that appears to be seemingly torn at the back. He is also known for a quick and short temper.

IMO

Ok makes sense it is a yr.

So He wants Hana to meet him the "now" Hiro at Issacs apt but when? Before or after Issac meets Sylar. I think when Hiro came the first time and he did not speak very good english. This is why she needs the Japanese translator. Wow he is trying to change his own actions from the past. This is why Y Industries are denying relations with him. Any thoughts?

That would be the year 2335.

Please explain 2335.

Thnkx

Diane4747

Holy crap, the Stardate on this equals Tuesday, April 16 2335 02:52:48 GMT...
2335 guys!

Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

IMO

Just a thought I believe that she maybe giving longitude and latitude directions using decimal placement. We are missing another number but it could come next Monday.

Yes, and it is on Samanthas aka Hana's website. Her site is coded and we are needing to look into this.

I just got this in my email from Primatech Paper. Did anyone else?

"I’ve found a file of great importance. Gonna need your help soon. Kinda on
the run right now. I’m connecting some major dots. Be ready next Monday
(4.09) for directions."

To Anonymous: Hiro always says that about his communications being "for Charlie". Just shows his rememberence of her and his love for her and hers for him that drives him to keep on keeping on. He wasn't able to save her but he will try to do everything he can to save others in her memory. I really think that Hana's partner is HRG since he called on Hana for help and has now switched sides and also wants to bring down the OWI. HRG supplied Hana with the file number for her to find information that will enable the SGs to bring down the OWI. Other than Ted and Matt she hasn't had any contact with other SGs. She is pretty good at staying out of sight or notice of anyone so I doubt that other SGs could contact her or even know she's out there unless she contacts them. I'm wondering if Hiro message about DL is for Hana to contact him as his gift will be needed in some way to aid Hiro or in saving the world. Surely the message about needing new clothes is a message having to do with what Hiro needs him to do or dressing for where he has to go.

I am thankful for all the brains that are out here on these boards because there would have been no way that I would have ever figured that last message out! I was trying to do something simple like the last one. That would have been more my speed. But Hana did say that not all the puzzles would be easy...and NBC asked us all those questions about translating code and puzzles that we liked and stuff like that so I guess we see where all this is coming from. Congrats to all that worked so hard and long on what was a very complicated puzzle. I would have never even thought of some of the stuff it took to solve it....all that converting binary to hex....good grief, I've barley heard of that stuff much less have a clue how to do it. And all that Japanese...no way I would have found that. So a great big THANK YOU to everyone and especially to Joe who took the last step to write the email to Primatechpaper. Very cool. Now according to Hana we are awaiting more instructions from her about this new file she's found. So all you brains rest up until Apr 9! It might be another doozy!

Oh wow, this code is so many kinds of awesome! Does anyone have any theories on why Hiro ends the message 'for Charlie'? It almost follows that Charlie could be Hana's partner somehow...

For all of you code addicts have you checked out http://samantha48616e61.com/

Hana's blog sounds very coded to me. Post your thoughts on my group.

We have to start working with her too. :)

claude also speaks japanese

well hana's partner is definitely HRG, because he speaks japanese so he would understand the phrase.

So why would Hiro send Hanna a message that just says "DL"?

dun gettit>
why wud hiro use DL hawkin's email..?

Yeah, I thought it by myself later. Thank you anyway. =)

It's D.L. Hawkins. Those are his initials.

"h" as in "D.L. Hawkins".

Ok. So you found the DL. But you sent an email to dlh@primatechpaper.com . Well... this "h" is driving me crazy. How did you get it?

is this post some kind of mask for the previous post?

is this post some kind of mask for the previous post?

Hello!
You have to take a look here... a man solved the enigma...
http://z9.invisionfree.com/HeroesSpain/index.php?showtopic=2399&st=15
The answer is in spanish...
XDDD
------
el nizaro...

PS: I am not the enigma solver... ok?

Vote on who you think will be the traitor on my website.
http://www.myspace.com/diane4747

Wow! This one was very hard! Congratulations for you all.

About the traitor, i believe that would be Parkman since i saw a interview where he says that we will be surprise with his character in the future.

I really believe that Parkman is the traitor...

Ando is the traitor.. no question in my mind

Hiro is linked Ando.

I'm pretty sure Nathan is the traitor.

Who can be the traitor any ideas?

Just noticed that Issac's address is #7. 7 in Jap is death. Could it symbolize what may come for Issac. This is just anotheer note Hiro is linked to Issac re: comic book, Hiro is linked to Nicki re:symbol Godsend. Hiro is linked to Peter possibly because Peter may absorbed Hiros power. Hiro is linked to DL and Micha re: car accident . Can anyone else think of whm Hiro is linked to?

Wow. That was really overly complicated for the e-mail.

Maybe all the novels with no hidden likn have clues in them

Address is Issac's Apt!

This is what I found:

Last panel of the comic has what looks like a Nissan Versa heading to Las Vegas on 15 North (but I could be wrong about the highway number), and the bubble says "We're on our own from here on out..." To be continued...
[text on right-hand page]:
Published by Writer/Artist:
Isaac Mendez
215 Reed St., #7
New York, New York 10010
Urged on by his instructor, Dominick Cabalo, Isaac honed his art skill and took various summer classes to help develop his craft. It wasn't until high school when he began winning illustration contests.
With even more classes in illustration and _____ ______ courses under his belt, Isaac moved to New York and soon after high school took various classes in college for comic book illustration.
It wasn't until the New York Comic Convention that he caught the eye of Camacho Comics and they hired him on the spot.
He worked there for 3 years, all the while learning the ins and outs of the business. Then [in] 2002, he self-published his own line of comics [under?] his old Uncle Burk's name - one of the _____ ______ in his life who supported his love
We hope you all enjoy the _____ Wonders!
________ ________
Dom Cabalo

source:http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/Credit-Letters-Grouped/Sylar-Symbol-Screencaps/700008284

According to:

http://heroeswiki.com/Talk:New_York,_NY

that address is Isaac Mendez's place.

Umm, it's a fictional show, they use fictional adresses.

That's Isaac's adress.

*Giggle*
You're being led on a wild goose chase.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

NO ADDRESS IN EXISTANCE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There IS no "215 Reed st.", much less #7

BTW: "karada ni kiotsukete kudasai" means: "Take care of yourself"

Welcome!

OMG OMG OMG!

This is so exciting! I figured it out, and I swear this isn't April Fools!

I emailed DLH@PrimatechPaper.com

This is the response I got:

QUOTE
Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

OMG OMG OMG!

This is so exciting! I figured it out, and I swear this isn't April Fools!

I emailed DLH@PrimatechPaper.com

This is the response I got:

Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

dlh@primatechpaper.com

email him...

PS: thx to Joe Raveclaw

Hiro-if-and there had BETTER BE-pizzas in the future, I want to be there when you order a pizza with everything...gotta wonder if Ando has a a secret decoder ring just to be able to communicate with you. Rock on !

TC EGL

The picture is 5 = Graphic Novel 5 called Snapshot, The one with DL Hawkins breaks out of jail

Ah, that Hiro is so clever... Not only inventing this tricky, time-consuming puzzle, but (presumably) giving DL a bigger role, too! ^_^

Way to go, everyone! お疲れ様でした！

"Does the Japanese character for 'e' share a key with '5', or is there something yet to figure out?"

Yup. On a typical Japanese keyboard, each key has a hiragana character as well as its usual English alphabet letter, number, and Shift character. 5 has the hiragana character 'e'.

Wow, you guys are absolutely amazing. The puzzle makers and the puzzle solvers. Kudos.

I believe that in chess, the first move is called "the key". I wonder if that is significant?

Wow! Great job to everyone who figured this out... there were so many steps to it! Also, props to "Hiro" for figuring out how to spell DL on a chess board through legitimate moves, then realized that all of them could be converted to hirogana, *then* found that all of the hirogana were 3-0-X-X to create the rules for this puzzle! Geez, if I wanted to do that I'd *better* be able to stop time so I could spend several weeks coming up with all those layers to the puzzle!

What? DL is Hana's partner?

Maybe dl=47 Maybe every 47 character makes a word or phrase. I do not have the time to try it maybe someone can.

Look at the way the characters are laid out, it could mean DiagonaL.

It could stand for:

DL Hawkins
Death and Luck
Download
Down Low
Disabled List
Direct Level

After all, I finally found "DL" it is clear, the chess game can't be a false road...
But !!!!

All that for two letters !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Hi,

First of all congratulations to all for this. Very hard to solve and imagine all this.

I've been thinking. DL maybe is Death and Luck, so, maybe we have to do something using the previous post

Maybe I was right all along about 5 being commic #5 because it was one of the few with no secret link, it was the first one to talk about DL and it has a picture of his family in it and if ou want a booty call you can call Nikki

It turns out the Japanese character for 5 is the word "go" which also means "be clear" which I think changes the meaning to "The picture will be clear."

OK, that makes sense, and congrats on breaking the 'add 3000' clue. "The key is on the key" would be the step about translating the hiragana back based on the KB, but what about "A picture is 5."? Does the Japanese character for 'e' share a key with '5', or is there something yet to figure out?

I'll go through the steps to get us where we are for anyone who is lost or is having trouble understanding.

1. Convert the binary bytes (baito) to individual hexadecimal, similar to how 3000 is the hex value for the stardate of 12288.

2. Add 3000 in hexadecimal to each 2-digit hex byte. Conveniently, since they are all two-digits, they add easily, so the first byte 44, becomes 3044.

3. Convert these now 4-digit hex values into the Unicode text equivalent, which just happens to get you a whole bunch of Japanese Hiragana. This can be done easily by typing the 4-digit number in wordpad, highlighting it, then pressing Alt+X. You will probably need the some sort of Japanese language pack to get it to display correctly, I installed it before I tried it so I don't know. NOTE: I was the first to get to this step.

4. Go to a Japanese keyboard and write down the corresponding english letters and numbers corresponding to the Japanese characters you found.

5. Play a game of chess. Looking at a chess board from the white side, the Columns are labeled A-H and the Rows 1-8, with 1 being closest to the white side. This can be done manually or with a free chess program like Chessbase Lite.

6. The moves will put the pieces in a shape to spell out D L.

Oh, and I don't know if this is related, but if you take the D and the L back to the Japanese keyboard, you get the letters "shi" and "ri", which combined into "shiri" means "buttocks or bottom." Hiro making a booty call?

I tried sending Hiro an email with DL in the subject and message, but I just got back the same email about Molly and such :\

I wonder what we are supposed to do with this now?

Nice solve, everyone! Now, try sending an email to him.

What about download the 5th picture of Linderman's archive?

Could be windows platform dependant? I mean most of NBC is...

BYTE...
DWORD...

Lol doesn't "DWORD" correlate pretty directly with "DOLLAR".

The symbol of 5 is % on a standard keyboard, meaning modulus, which of course in turn is a mathematical action that we most likely should use...

Also, 5 could be V in the roman alphabet.

Theres plenty of speculation.

DL=drink your Ovaltine

Great puzzle Masi - very creative! Too bad the message isn't nearly as interesting

Wow so geeky. Good for you!

part-time worker in Japanese is baito which also means byte. So it was a mis-translation from the auto translator :) and if you added 3000 to every byte after it was converted to hex-code, you got a hex code that represented a hiragana sign.

part time worker = a pawn?

I love that you came up with the chessgame and the DL but how does that connect to part time worker and 3000?

hehe yeah, it was fun to "decode" that binary code together and get success! hehe, now we know that in the next episode DL and Hana will talk/do about something in relation with Hiro.. Hiro and DL together :D

A little lame though, wasn't really essential tot he experience :P But probably a heads up on what to come in the show. Hana's building an army with hiro's help :P

oh DL Hawkings, that's interesting

Since my message doesn't seem to be approved, I got the same result, and I'm guessing he wants Hana to contact DL Hawkings

http://www.tim.hi-ho.ne.jp/cgi-bin/user/migoto/weblink_s.cgi

Mean anything to anyone?

I played the chess game! when the black team seems to win, all the pieces go to their place and write these 2 letters:

DL

picture: http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6273/untitled1ms3.png

what is DL!??!?

From Wikipedia on "part time worker"

Lexicographical characteristics
The Kōjien, like most Japanese dictionaries, writes headwords in hiragana syllabary and collates them in gojūon ("50 sounds") order. Baroni and Bialock (2005) describe the Kōjien as "an old standard that gives extensive definitions, etymologies (as always take care with these), and variant usages for words, places, historical and literary figures, and furigana for difficult or old terms."

This dictionary is notable for including current Japanese catch-phrases and buzzwords. For instance, the 4th edition added furītā (フリーター "a part-time worker by choice"), which blends two loanwords: furī (フリー "free", from English, as in furīransu フリーランス "freelance") and arubaitā (アルバイター "part-time worker", from German arbeit "work").

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I don't get it. where will this chess play lead us to??

That looks promising, Tyck! I was wondering if there was some kind of computer program that we could have do it for us, but that might make it too easy. :)

etK, I'd stick with normal chess for starters, since shogi isn't played on an 8x8 board, and the moves Tyck found so far seem to work. If it starts to get off-track, though, that's a good resource to have for backup!

So, hmm... if this works out, is the game symbolic? (is chess ever NOT symbolic? :P) Are the last pieces standing going to signify something? I'm headed off to sleep now, but I'll keep my fingers crossed that it all comes together soon! Good luck, all!

I am playing the chess game...

i'm going to try to play with these coordinates in chess...

but I remember there's some kind of japanese chess too! I never understood how did it work:

http://www.chessvariants.com/shogi.html

Such timing we all have! ^_^

So now, provided we're on the right track, what kind of chess game is our Hiro trying to play?

(I agree, making it as a picture doesn't seem to create anything. Is there another clue we're missing, I wonder?)

E2-E4 H7-H5 D2-D4 A7-A5 G2-G4
H5-G4 H2-H3 G4-H3 H1-H3 B7-B5
B1-C3 C7-C5 D4-D5 E7-E6 D5-E6
F8-D6 H3-H8 D8-G5 C3-D5 E8-D8
F1-E2 G5-C1 E6-F7 C1-C2 E1-F1
C2-B2 D1-E1 B2-A1 D5-E3 D8-C7
F2-F4 A1-A2 H8-G8 A2-F7 G8-G7
D6-F4 G7-H7 F7-E6 F1-G2 E6-A6
H7-H4 F4-D6 G2-F1 C7-B7 H4-H1
B7-A7

The sequence paired off into what could be chess moves..

1. e2 e4 White pawn to e4
2. h7-h5 Black pawn to h5
3. d2-d4 White pawn to d4
4. a7-a5 Black pawn to a5
5. g2-g4 White pawn to g4
6. h5xg4 Black pawn captures g4

And the results of the first
six turns. Anybody want to 'play' out the rest and see if it really is chess?

tried to translate it into a picture with the coordinates.. though there are some coordinates that repeats so I painted it with a darker colour:

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4552/picdt2.png

I can't see anything, so that might not be what we have to do ^^"

oh you're right Gita, my bad XP.. it looks like it's what you say, some kind of coordinates, hmm..

Or, what Gita said.

Hmm. This is interesting.. I'm working with the kana some more. Ignoring the literal meanings and sounds of the kana, and just looking at their positions on the keyboard- every pair of kana is a letter and than a number. The letters appear to range from e to h. The numbers.. 1 to 8. I think we're looking at a chess game.

Ha, I was just about to post my findings on converting each hiragana character to its corresponding letter on the Japanese keyboard, but it looks like I was just beaten to it! etK, it's not that you were wrong with the dollar signs, but you forgot to look at the MAIN function of the key with the う character... it's the number 4! So here's the string of numbers with that instead --

E 2 E 4 H 7 H 5 D 2 D 4 A 7 A 5 G 2 G 4 H 5 G 4 H 2 H 3 G 4 H 3 H 1 H 3 B 7 B 5 B 1 C 3 C 7 C 5 D 4 D 5 E 7 E 6 D 5 E 6 F 8 D 6 H 3 H 8 D 8 G 5 C 3 D 5 E 8 D 8 F 1 E 2 G 5 C 1 E 6 F 7 C 1 C 2 E 1 F 1 C 2 B 2 D 1 E 1 B 2 A 1 D 5 E 3 D 8 C 7 F 2 F 4 A 1 A 2 H 8 G 8 A 2 F 7 G 8 G 7 D 6 F 4 G 7 H 7 F 7 E 6 F 1 G 2 E 6 A 6 H 7 H 4 F 4 D 6 G 2 F 1 C 7 B 7 H 4 H 1 B 7 A 7

... and the only thing I could make of these letters and numbers was that they resembled battleship calls or chess/checkers moves ("I shall bring you a game"), but I tried plotting those out on coordinate-grid gameboards and didn't see anything. Maybe someone else here can do something with it!

no, don't try to add another 3000 for every dollar on that code I got, it just scrambles it even more.. don't have any idea how to continue :\

I did what I said before, and I got this:

E 2 E $ H 7 H D 2 D $ A 7 A G 2 G $ H G $ H 2 H 3 G $ H 3 H 1 H 3 B 7 B B 1 C 3 C 7 C D $ D E 7 E 6 D E 6 F 8 D 6 H 3 H 8 D 8 G C 3 D E 8 D 8 F 1 E 2 G C 1 E 6 F 7 C 1 C 2 E 1 F 1 C 2 B 2 D 1 E 1 B 2 A 1 D E 3 D 8 C 7 F 2 F $ A 1 A 2 H 8 G 8 A 2 F 7 G 8 G 7 D 6 F $ G 7 H 7 F 7 E 6 F 1 G 2 E 6 A 6 H 7 H $ F $ D 6 G 2 F 1 C 7 B 7 H $ H 1 B 7 A 7

there are a dollars! does it mean am I doing it right? I think i have to add another 3000 :\ ~ going to do for all these dollars

as you said, え is the 5th character in a japanese keyboard -> え = E = 5
that probably means that every kana we get from that cyphred code is a letter from the keyboard: http://www.casemouse.com/kb/mini/japanese-keyboard.jpg
(look, 5 is え)
if we change all the kanas to it's letter maybe we can find what does it say..
i'm going to try it now, will post in a while if i got it

"A picture is 5"

"Picture" in japanese is "E", E is also the fifth letter.

I think this has something to do with heroes!

i doubt that is the end of the 3000...
i know japanese, ive studied japanese for long time and lived in japan for overa year

and all that we have found so far, really doesnt give us a clue...
i think this has something to do...

++Stardate 3000.0 : Bound by Death and Luck

its in the main page for hiro's blog on the right side...

i've mailed both of the emails with the binary code, waiting to see if hana has something on it...

"so take one Byte at a time, for every byte add 3000"

Which is what we've done. Every byte translated into Hex, added 3000. This produced the Unicode numbers for Hiragana characters.

That entire first line has been figured out and we can move on from there. But to what, is the question

so take one Byte at a time, for every byte add 3000

here's something to chew on...

I asked my wife, "How much is two bits?" and she said, "Look it up, stupid." So I did, and here's ehat I found:

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/twobits.html

To sum up - eight 'bits' is a dollar.

You're welcome.

Here's what Hiro's binary string looks like in hex:
447544464F844F48577
55746618461484D754D
464F484D464F754F424
D464F424F6C4F425384
5348536C5D425D845D4
8574657484484444A57
48444A6F86574A4F424
F8657864D485D425748
448657866F6C44754D4
85D6C444A6F845D6C5D
75446C6F6C5D7553755
76C446C5375616C5748
444257865D846F756F4
6616C61754F864D8661
756F844D864D84574A6
F464D844F846F84444A
6F6C4D75444A614A4F8
44F466F46574A4D756F
6C5D8453844F464F6C5
3846184

Oh, here's another (probably red herring) angle somebody smarter than me may be able to work with-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda
A card game played with suits of cards designated by flower.

anyone that can speak japanese please "herupy" us!

lol ;D

but this can be another question o_O why not? xD
after translate that =~

Has anyone converted the binary INTO binary? It looks kinda cool in WordPad in 5 pt. courier. Nothing stands out, but the patterns you can make are fun.

this is the first few lines of what you get when you convert each byte into decimal, and arrange it in every four byte, it's too long for me to do the whole thing without knowing what i should be looking for, but there's an obvious pattern here:

still not sure about what the 3000 means...

68 117 68 70
79 132 79 72
87 117 87 70
97 132 97 72
77 117 77 70
79 72 77 70
79 117 79 66
77 70 79 66
79 108 79 66
83 132 83 72
83 108 93 66
93 132 93 72
87 70 87 72
68 132 68 74
87 72 68 74
.....

15b8axga2gwm7ag http://www.638867.com/128285.html l7ykt4a5r56qvp7s

vzvn8hf6o84 d0tej01hkyi ry3lbi7si5y1

No idea if this will be helpful to anybody, but え is the character placed on the 5 key in Wikipedia's image of a Japanese keyboard. I tried excising that character from the Hiragana set and got

"To be, the [hu] the [ku] anther which is said to do, the [hu] to do, inside and the [chi] to come, to wipe, the [u] stalk [u] [ku] the open [u] [ku] which is wiped you open, the [a] which is pulled out densely and the [so] [a] [so] and the [so] which do not come densely to do, the [u] forcing and to be, forcing the [yu] to do, it leaves, the edge where it keeps the [yu] which is opened to do and, the [so] [a] forcing [yu] does and sews the [yu] and wipes and the [so] sews and the [so] [nu] [so] [hu] it is not the [nu] [so] [hu] the [hu] dies quickly and densely is not [nu] forcing [a] it does densely and the [yu] [so] and comes keeps and the [hu] the inside [nu] [chi] the going [yu] [chi] [hu] which is wiped quickly and the palm the float anther and is quick as for the anther [u] where it pulls out and the [hu] is and falls and leaves as for the tide coming [hu] the [nu] The [so] and densely the anther [u] [ku] [nu] it is dense and the [chi] and"

い ふ い う く や く し ふ し う ち や ち き ふ き う く き う く ふ く あ き う く あ く ぬ く あこ や こ こ ぬ そ あ そ や そ し う し い や い お し い お は ゆ し お く あ く ゆ し ゆ き そ あ し い ゆ し ゆ は ぬ い ふ き そ ぬ い お は や そ ぬ そ ふ い ぬ は ぬ そ ふ こ ふ し ぬ い ぬこ ふ ち ぬ し い あ し ゆ そ や は ふ は う ち ぬ ち ふ く ゆ き ゆ ち ふ は や き ゆ き や し お は うき や く や は や い お は ぬ き ふ い お ち お く や く う は う し お き ふ は ぬ そ や こ や く う く ぬこ や ち や

..which is still nonsense, as far as I can tell. The machine translation doesn't help. I think it's interesting that doing this removes 'gangrene' from the earlier auto-translation, tho. Also, an anther is part of a flower's male genitalia.. it's the part containing the pollen. Kinda looks like Jotaro Kujo is sending a dirty letter to Hana.

We can now verify that The "e" is 5. Why? Because in Japanese, the word "picture" can be translated into "e" (pronounced "eh").

I'm pretty sure that the fact that the stardate is the last possible second that 32 bit dates are functional means something.

how's this. I like how someone noted that "picture" in japanese can also mean "E". Since E is the 5th letter in the alphabet, we can assume he means "E is on the 5" I think that's the correct interpretation. This would lead me to believe that we're suppose to convert the binary into numbers that go into letters, since E is the 5th letter of the alphabet.

likewise, we can assume that Hana would know instinctively that 4=$, that can explain the key is on the key comment. So, we go one byte at a time, and for every four bytes (which also happens to be 32 bits!!), we add 3000? 3 zeros??

that's where i'm a bit fuzzy if anyone has any other ideas..

I see you figured out how I got those japanese characters earlier today. They do not make any sense and will need some sort of manipulation to get them to be the correct characters, but the question is what do we do....

zhbetvm56s07tt http://www.927481.com/633699.html 3pxqgy4bwhdrq5v

cjhxjmu1iwe3xs 5xfi2dyd bx91gfzd3tbww

There's probably a code within it, much like there was a code within that last one. We had to line up the characters correctly and get the proper line.

Which is where the rest of the message comes in.

"The key is on the key. A picture is 5."

The key is on the key could refer to us using Hex (because of the 12288 stardate). Or it could mean something entirely different.

I've tried a few different meanings using 5. Every fifth character, using the fifth column of bytes (on the 8x23 grid I had before, and also the 9x21ish grid when only one space separates the bytes), but so far I've found nothing useful.

My Japanese isn't fantastic, but I can tell this hiragana string isn't anything remotely meaningful as-is....

from here we need someone that know japanese =\
cause it's all in hiragana... but sometimes in kanji have more specific meaning x_x'

=\

another automatic translation:
Automatically translated text:
意不意浮くや食えシフ仕打ちや知恵寄付気宇苦役浮く服あき浮く悪抜く亜子や声来ぬ疎阿蘇や添え氏牛栄や意教えイオは油脂億悪油脂雪壊疽足栄油脂湯は縫い噴き壊疽縫い尾羽や祖ぬ祖父犬はぬ祖父国府死ぬ犬子ふち主栄足湯粗野は不は打ちぬちふくゆきゆちふは焼き雪や塩は浮き役や早い尾は抜き不意落ち億や空はウシオきふはぬそやこやくうくぬこやちや
Mind suddenness it floats and eat [shihu] treatment and the intelligence contribution mind hard work the clothes which float to open, the badness which floats the sub- child and the voice which are pulled out uninformed as for Aso and attaching person cow glory and mind doctrine [io] which does not come as for the oil and fat hundred million bad oil and fat snow gangrene foot glory oil and fat hot water as for the sewing emitting gangrene sewing tail feather and the ancestor/founder [nu] grandfather dog [nu] grandfather Kokubu non- it strikes the dog child edge main glory foot hot water vulgarity which dies and the [nu] [chi] it burns the going [yu] [chi] [hu] which is wiped and the snow and the salt float and part and pull out the quick tail and as for sudden falling hundred million and the sky as for the Ushio coming [hu] the [nu] [so] and densely the anther [u] [ku] [nu] are dense and the [chi] and

=\
those kanjis are auto-formated by windows

I've been juggling the hiragana around but it seems like just more gibberish. Initially I thought the "いふいう" might be "if you..." but the rest of it is still nonsense.

same as I had found.
now put it on google translate_t and will show up this message:

To be and the [hu] the [ku] anther which is said do to obtain the [hu] do inside and the [chi] to obtain, to start, to wipe, the [u] [ku] to obtain, to start, the [u] [ku] the open [u] [ku] which is wiped you open, the [a] which is pulled out densely and to exceed, the [so] [a] [so] which does not start and accompany to do, the [u] to be able to do, to be well, to be to be able to do, the [yu] to do, it leaves, the edge where it keeps the [yu] which is opened to do and, the gangrene [a] is to be able to do the [yu] does the [yu] sews and wipes the gangrene sews quickly the [so] [nu] [so] [hu] it is not the [nu] [so] [hu] densely the [hu] dies and is not [nu] it is to be able to do densely, the [a] does and the [yu] [so] and comes keeps and the [hu] the inside [nu] [chi] the going [yu] [chi] [hu] which is wiped quickly and the palm the float anther and is quick it pulls out, the [hu]It is and falls and as for the anther [u] which leaves as for the tide coming [hu] the [nu] [so] and densely the anther [u] [ku] [nu] it is dense and the [chi] and

When the bytes are translated to Hex, then 3000 is added to them and we get the Unicode equivalent, here's what comes up:

い ふ い う く や く え し ふ し う ち や ち え き ふ き う く え き う く ふ く あ き う く あ く ぬ く あ こ や こ え こ ぬ そ あ そ や そ え し う し え い や い お し え い お は ゆ し お く あ く ゆ し ゆ き え そ あ し え い ゆ し ゆ は ぬ い ふ き え そ ぬ い お は や そ ぬ そ ふ い ぬ は ぬ そ ふ こ ふ し ぬ い ぬ こ ふ ち ぬ し え い あ し ゆ そ や は ふ は う ち ぬ ち ふ く ゆ き ゆ ち ふ は や き ゆ き や し お は う き や く や は や い お は ぬ き ふ い お ち お く や く う は う し お き ふ は ぬ そ や こ や く う く ぬ こ や ち や

ill try deadbeat theory i.i'

but what he said is true:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3040.pdf
lol

I took Hiro's code and added 00110011001100000011000000110000 (binary for 3000) for every 4 bits and got

C33000s33000C33000C33000C33000ƒ33000C33000C33000S33000s33000S33000C33000c3
3000ƒ33000c3
3000C33000C3
3000s33000C3
3000C33000C33000C33000C3
3000C33000C33000s33000C33000C33000C3
3000C33000C33000C33000C33000c33000C33000C33000S33000ƒ33000S33000C33000S33000c33000S3
3000C33000S3
3000ƒ33000S3
3000C33000S33000C33000S33000C33000C33000ƒ33000C33000C3
3000S33000C33000C33000C3
3000c33000ƒ33000S33000C3
3000C33000C33000C33000ƒ33000S33000ƒ33000C3
3000C33000S3
3000C33000S33000C33000C33000ƒ33000S33000ƒ33000c33000c33000C33000s33000C3
3000C33000S3
3000c33000C33000C3
3000c33000ƒ33000S3
3000c33000S3
3000s33000C33000c33000c33000c33000S3
3000s33000S33000s33000S33000c33000C33000c33000S33000s33000c3
3000c33000S33000C33000C33000C33000S33000ƒ33000S3
3000ƒ33000c33000s33000c33000C33000c3
3000c33000c3
3000s33000C33000ƒ33000C3
3000ƒ33000c3
3000s33000c33000ƒ33000C3
3000ƒ33000C3
3000ƒ33000S33000C3
3000c33000C33000C3
3000ƒ33000C33000ƒ33000c33000ƒ33000C33000C3
3000c33000c33000C3
3000s33000C33000C3
3000c3
3000C3
3000C33000ƒ33000C33000C33000c33000C33000S33000C3
3000C3
3000s33000c33000c33000S3
3000ƒ33000S33000ƒ33000C33000C33000C33000c33000S33000ƒ33000c3
3000ƒ33000

With those exact breaks and everything. It's the only thing I've gotten that wasn't complete gibberish.

If we add 3000 hex to each byte we end up with codes between 0x3040 and 0x309f. This just happens to fall into the exact range for Hiragana Unicode. Hiragana is a cursive syllabary for Japanese. I have taken half a semester of Japanese, but too many of the symbols are repeated to make any words that I recognize. Ex:
1st byte = 01000100 = 0x44 (hex) + 0x3000 = 0x3044 => (U)I (The character for 'i' in Japanese sounds like 'e').
2nd byte = 01110101 = 0x75 + 0x3000 = 0x3075 => (U) hu

=\ I tried a lot of things on php but I did not reached anything that can help to solve...

I tried ascii art with encoded and with binaries... and nothing

its a message for hanna...

Flower, in japanese, is hanna...

ill work on the rest of it later...

cheers!

The key is on the key. A picture is 5.

Could this mean a keyboard key used 5x e.g. 55555

Does anybody else wonder what exactly he means by "use" one bite at a time? Is that usually what people say when refering to decoding something or using binary? "Using" bites? It might just be me, but that sounds weird. Maybe it needs re-translating or means something else.

Okay, I think we are having to translate the binary code to hex. As previously mentioned. I have been using this translator
http://www.fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/javascrypt.html

We have to focus on "The key is on the key. A picture is 5." % or the euro symbol.
I think we are close.

For JasonA theory... it will be an array with exacts 322 numbers, but when I convert to characters, return anything more complex than without JasonA theory:

w/ verification digit:
@Â„0Aâ@PáÂ…0`"@A¡Â„0Aá0Aá„A¡Aá†Pb@Pa†Q¢@Pá@@‚PPáPaâPAá
 0Pâ@Q¡
@@‚ 0aá†(A¡`@ Q¡†(@†`Q¡Â…(Pá†`Pa†`PáPâ aá†0`!†(Aâ 0`!† A¢ Pá0A¢ aâPaá†(@PAâ0aáPA¡Â†`Q¢ Aá`Pb

w/out verification digit:
@aB q
 (paB0

 PaB  p  paB P
 pC(1
 (0C (Q
  (p
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((p(0q
( p�(q
  (P� A
0pC P 0 @(PC  @C0(PaB(pC0(0aC
0(p(q
 0paC0C
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 0aC Q
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"Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000." I think we can all agree that part-time worker means bite. If you assume that dollar means 4 ($ is on the 4 key), then the sentence becomes "Use one bite at a time, and for every 4, add 3000." I think they mean add "3000", whatever it may be, after every 4 bites. Just something for people who know binary to try.

Using Stalos diagram, we have a matrix 8x23

68 117 68 70 79 132 79 72
87 117 87 70 97 132 97 72
77 117 77 70 79 72 77 70
79 117 79 66 77 70 79 66
79 108 79 66 83 132 83 72
83 108 93 66 93 132 93 72
87 70 87 72 68 132 68 74
87 72 68 74 111 134 87 74
79 66 79 134 87 134 77 72
93 66 87 72 68 134 87 134
111 108 68 117 77 72 93 108
68 74 111 132 93 108 93 117
68 108 111 108 93 117 83 117
87 108 68 108 83 117 97 108
87 72 68 66 87 134 93 132
111 117 111 70 97 108 97 117
79 134 77 134 97 117 111 132
77 134 77 132 87 74 111 70
77 132 79 132 111 132 68 74
111 108 77 117 68 74 97 74
79 132 79 70 111 70 87 74
77 117 111 108 93 132 83 132
79 70 79 108 83 132 97 132

C'mon ppl! Solve it already! I'm going crazy over here.

In regards to what JasonA said (coincidentally, my real life name is also Jason A.), the number 4 may also be significant for another reason. Hiro writes: "Use one part-time worker." A full-time workday is equivalent to 8 hours, thus a part-time work would most logically translate to 4 hours, 4 being the key number. What is the binary code for "4"... maybe someone can count how many of those we have in the code Hiro gave us.

Nick,
Try these too:

http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/
http://www.blisstonia.com/software/Decrypto/

Nick,
Maybe these decoder urls may help you.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/

Good luck,
Diane4747

so should we still start in the format standard binary is? Four bytes per row left to right. Do you read japanese from the bottom or the top?

Whoops. I'm a little right-left dyslexic. *I* knew what I meant. Thanks for the correction.

K :: It's Right-To-Left, and Vertially. It's written left-to-right on the blog. xDDD

*laughs* I mix up my left and right alot.

Hmm. I'd forgotten that Japanese can be written vertically, and left-to-right. Perhaps we've been reading the code the wrong way. Maybe instead of translating it all horizontally and right-to-left, we need to start from the top left corner and read down?

Hmm. Using the Japanese Translator that fizzle gave us, we've got two words for dollar: doru and beika. Doru also means "doll", and beika also means "the price of rice"... neither seems to be what we're looking for :-/

has anyone seen this? I found it when I searched for "Yamagato Software" on yahoo. You think it's a hint? "Sometimes is takes an artist to bridge the communication gap. But for those without an artistic flair, good online project management software has the flexibility to act almost like translation software and provide both project managers and sponsors with the data they need(like the Yamagato translation software used by Hiro Nakamura on his blog)."

it would be more helpful to post all your translated characters in the block format you were using - japanese can be written vertically

i found this in wiki. う＋ふ (u + fu)
they seem to be only parts of words. maybe variables? where did you get this avidday?

http://www.trussel.com/f_nih.htm seems to be quite good for english japanese translation. I had a quick look for a mistranslation of "key" quite a few possibilities - secret, clue or time are the ones that stand out but not really a great help

Vesper,

That is the babelfish translation, which I think is losing something in the translation, which is why I asked for a human translation.

Thanks for your help though.

aviday,
it translated as below:
It is and the ふ is and the う く and the く does to obtain the ふ

ki-, kyuusho, hiketsu, kikan, choushi, are also forms of "key"

kagi is key. doru is dollar. approx

I think at the moment it'd be a good idea if we could figure out what the proper translation is. I have a feeling that it's very easy to manipulate the binary, provided we have Hiro's instructions right. We know that "part time worker" should say "byte". It's possible that "game" should say "picture". What about "dollar" and "key"? Does anyone know the Japanese words for them, and if they have any other English translations?

If anyone can read the following Japanese and tell me what it means, I would be most grateful:

い ふ い う く や く え し ふ

couldn't ind anything for that date. probably just another dead end. i posted the problem at my DeVry site. maybe some tech-heads can help us out... here's hoping

I think my head is going to blow up... I've been working on this since yesterday.... arg...

here's the date: May 8, 2354, Time: 17:59:59

So there are 209 instances of "100" in the code according to MSWord's find feature. I took 209 and multiplied by 3000 and got 627000. The key IS the key so maybe 5%? which is 31350. maybe it's a Stardate? I'm just trying everything i can think of now.

"The key is on the key" probably means that the key to solving it is on one key on the keyboard. I don't know anything about binary or any other computer language, but by $, I think they mean the number 4 ("the key is on the key") since $ is on the same key as 4. So if somebody can add 3000 for every number 4, this might mean something.

"The key is on the key", I'm pretty sure, means that the key to solving part of this is on one of the keys on the keyboard. That's probably been stated already, but I thought I'd say it in case.

I just noticed that the bitmap Nick made with the code looks a lot like the security tag on my credit report. maybe the code if the key itself?

I was thinking that maybe "a picture is 5" refers to the letter size (originally in 8,5) ... Like the courier hint from the last post.

Hmm. Going back to "a picture is 5" for a second. If there's not enough code to make a real picture, (and how could we know what format would decode it anyway), is it feasible that it might not be an actual picture or sentence, but an ASCII based image?

The ascii code for $ is 44. Did anyone tried this?

Maybe we must just add (3)three (0)zeros after every (1)one. And after that remark every five space.

Well, I've been trying some of the ideas from tomorrow and even Morse Code here, but the point is, without any reasonable start we are lost.

Unrelated, I just noticed Bound By Death and Luck was [i]not[/i] auto-translated by Yamagato Software.

This is a great tool for deciphering ciphertext:

http://www.mcld.co.uk/decipher/

The current string I'm trying to decipher is:

bnbcgogdinickokdfnfcgdfcgngafcgaglgahohdhljajojdicidbobeidbe
mpiegagpipfdjaidbpipmlbnfdjlbemojljnblmljnhnilblhnklidbaipjo
mnmcklkngpfpknmofpfoiemcfogomobemlfnbekegogcmciefnmljohogcglhoko

(Each letter represents an 8-bit sequence, and I'm trying to find what real letter is associated with each 8-bit sequence.)

No breakthroughs though...

What happens if each letter in the original message was assigned a random 8-bit number?

Frequency analysis says that the letter E is the most common letter in the english alphabet. And the frequency analysis of our little bit sequence shows our own frequency distribution (thanks for that post, K). Let's assume that the letter E is the 5th byte in our bit sequence from the clue. The 5th byte in the bit sequence is "01001111", which is also one of the most commonly repeating bytes in the sequence according to K.

This reinforces the idea that this is a cipher.

So, can anyone crack this if we start with the idea that E=01001111 and trying to find the identities of the other 15 letters that occur?

Going with the cipher idea, the numbers may not match up with their respective letters in sequential order.

How about if the clue "The key is on the key" refers to the E, as in kEy?
Have no idea as to how that could be helpful in any way, but better to have said it.

Next time include spaces, please. This stretches out people's "Friends Page" on the Livejournal feed.

=)

I noticed another interesting feature that may or may not help. There are only 16 different sequences of 8 bits used in the whole message:
13 "01000100"s, 14 "01110101"s, 11 "01000110"s, 16 "01001111"s, 17 "10000100"s, 11 "01001000"s, 14 "01010111", 8 "01100001"s, 12 "01001101"s, 7 "01000010"s, 14 "01101100"s, 7 "01010011"s, 10 "01011101"s, 9 "01001010"s, 12 "01101111"s, 9 "10000110"s.

You can see some interesting patterns if you paste it into MSWord and put spaces between each byte.

At two spaces between each, all the columns line up and you can see a lot of repeating bytes:

01000100 01110101 01000100 01000110 01001111 10000100 01001111 01001000
01010111 01110101 01010111 01000110 01100001 10000100 01100001 01001000
01001101 01110101 01001101 01000110 01001111 01001000 01001101 01000110
01001111 01110101 01001111 01000010 01001101 01000110 01001111 01000010
01001111 01101100 01001111 01000010 01010011 10000100 01010011 01001000
01010011 01101100 01011101 01000010 01011101 10000100 01011101 01001000
01010111 01000110 01010111 01001000 01000100 10000100 01000100 01001010
01010111 01001000 01000100 01001010 01101111 10000110 01010111 01001010
01001111 01000010 01001111 10000110 01010111 10000110 01001101 01001000
01011101 01000010 01010111 01001000 01000100 10000110 01010111 10000110
01101111 01101100 01000100 01110101 01001101 01001000 01011101 01101100
01000100 01001010 01101111 10000100 01011101 01101100 01011101 01110101
01000100 01101100 01101111 01101100 01011101 01110101 01010011 01110101
01010111 01101100 01000100 01101100 01010011 01110101 01100001 01101100
01010111 01001000 01000100 01000010 01010111 10000110 01011101 10000100
01101111 01110101 01101111 01000110 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110101
01001111 10000110 01001101 10000110 01100001 01110101 01101111 10000100
01001101 10000110 01001101 10000100 01010111 01001010 01101111 01000110
01001101 10000100 01001111 10000100 01101111 10000100 01000100 01001010
01101111 01101100 01001101 01110101 01000100 01001010 01100001 01001010
01001111 10000100 01001111 01000110 01101111 01000110 01010111 01001010
01001101 01110101 01101111 01101100 01011101 10000100 01010011 10000100
01001111 01000110 01001111 01101100 01010011 10000100 01100001 10000100

It is clearly a text message. If any of you have ever tried converting random code you'd know that most of the time you don't end up with ascii but random gibberish.. most of this is actual letters, so I am sure the key is meant to rearrange them into something legible..

If anyone is still working the code/decode theory, here is the site i've been using to convert to hex,text,binary,etc.

http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/

Goodnight for now, good luck!

Hiro2,
What do you mean?

Yah, I was starting to think the same thing. The binary could be just a decoy and the message is in the writing. Stenography is hiding in plan sight. However, I thought I was on to something.
ahhh! :) Where is tex when you need him! :) On my sight I have a young picture of Linderman, Thompson and a vote on who the Austin the healer is. Take time to vote.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=166355360&blogID=246005994&MyToken=48ad1e46-b483-4d0f-84e1-1047c0ad9132

0 + 1 = picture

8======D~~

I put the binary in word, highlighted all the ones, highlighting them in red, and did the same with the zeros, only in blue, and got...

Something that looked kind of cool, but completely worthless. No picture in the numbers...

(-_-)

Answer about bitmap file: It depends on if it is of gray scale or of color. If I have the bit array, I can try to create the "picture."

where's stephen hawking when we need him?!

I want to bet that the people at NBC are either laughing at our vain effort or praying that somebody will find the answer so they can begin the next part of this. Oh, it bugs me. I can't make heads or tails of it. What if it is not meant to be in a bit map or in binary format?

Here is something for anyone with Visual C++. Found on a forum.

A .bmp file consists of a header, color table and an array of bytes which is the image data. The header consists of information about the file and the bitmap (such as size, colors, etc.). You can find more information about the file format of .bmp file on the internet. If you are using Visual C++ you can use the CBitmap class to load a .bmp file using LoadBitmap(). Once you have done this you call the GetBitmap(BITMAP*) member function to retrieve information about the bitmap. The BITMAP structure contains among other things a pointer to the bit values of the bitmap. Hope something i'm posting helps someone. Just share the results

Pedro,

If you look at the navigation bar on the right-hand side of the page, you'll see this:

> Stardate 12288.0 : To Flower
> Stardate 3000.0 : Bound by Death and Luck

12288 happens to equal 0x3000.

So... we have no idea what base the 3000 is in. They've used it in hex in the past. People are trying all sorts of things with it.

Whom ever can do visual basic. You may need a pixel grabber. Take a screen print of the screen of the binary puzzle. See this sight for example:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=600415&messageID=3215375

Then try Vesper idea too.

Just want to say Kudos to everyone for all your ideas.
Diane4747

Grrr, since all you people out there are insisting on making images, here is what it looks like in a 2-bit bitmap (I arbitrarily picked an image size that is almost square):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7579223@N02/440385345/

If you go to a color bitmap, the image only gets smaller by a factor a 4 each on each side!

THERE IS NOT ENOUGH DATA TO MAKE A PICTURE

Why is everyone using 3000 and coverting it as an ascii to binary, 3000 is a number in base ten which is 101110111000 in binary.

Also btw 14 * 3000 is 42000 not 4200 you missed a zero

found something. does anyone have Visual Basic? You can download code to convert binary to bitmap here http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=1906

I've been looking but i haven't been able to find a way to convert binary into a bitmap. seems like it should be easier than it is. anyone know a program that might help?

Thanks Vesper. Any ideas?

For people looking at statistics... Very close to 3 out of 4 bytes in the original sequence are lower-case or upper-case letters in ascii.

Perhaps the "adding 3000" is meant to make those 1 in 4 legible. And depending how you do it, it might descramble some of the other letters.

Go to my webite blog: I formatted and highlighted and copies and seperated the 5th line of each. Now we need a bipmap maker.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=166355360&blogID=247428575&indicate=1

I'm wondering, since the translation from Japanese seems significant, if there's a way to convert binary directly to a Japanese character set. I know almost nothing about this, so you'll have to excuse me if I'm being terribly ignorant.

The biggest problem with numerically adding 3000 onto the data already present in a byte is that a byte is only allowed to range from [0-255] or [-128 to +127] depending on the number scheme you use.

I'm leaning toward a concatenation of 3000 to the text, whether it's 3000h or 3000d.

01000100 01110101 01000100 01000110
01001111 10000100 01001111 01001000
01010111 01110101 01010111 01000110
01100001 10000100 01100001 01001000
01001101 01110101 01001101 01000110
01001111 01001000 01001101 01000110
01001111 01110101 01001111 01000010
01001101 01000110 01001111 01000010
01001111 01101100 01001111 01000010
01010011 10000100 01010011 01001000
01010011 01101100 01011101 01000010
01011101 10000100 01011101 01001000
01010111 01000110 01010111 01001000
01000100 10000100 01000100 01001010
01010111 01001000 01000100 01001010
01101111 10000110 01010111 01001010
01001111 01000010 01001111 10000110
01010111 10000110 01001101 01001000
01011101 01000010 01010111 01001000
01000100 10000110 01010111 10000110
01101111 01101100 01000100 01110101
01001101 01001000 01011101 01101100
01000100 01001010 01101111 10000100
01011101 01101100 01011101 01110101
01000100 01101100 01101111 01101100
01011101 01110101 01010011 01110101
01010111 01101100 01000100 01101100
01010011 01110101 01100001 01101100
01010111 01001000 01000100 01000010
01010111 10000110 01011101 10000100
01101111 01110101 01101111 01000110
01100001 01101100 01100001 01110101
01001111 10000110 01001101 10000110
01100001 01110101 01101111 10000100
01001101 10000110 01001101 10000100
01010111 01001010 01101111 01000110
01001101 10000100 01001111 10000100
01101111 10000100 01000100 01001010
01101111 01101100 01001101 01110101
01000100 01001010 01100001 01001010
01001111 10000100 01001111 01000110
01101111 01000110 01010111 01001010
01001101 01110101 01101111 01101100
01011101 10000100 01010011 10000100
01001111 01000110 01001111 01101100
01010011 10000100 01100001 10000100

This is what I got . I columned the binary into 4. Then added the binary of 3000 = 00110011 00110000 00110000 00110000 after the 8th line the image filler previuosly talked about in the forum. Notice the binary of 3000 is in 4 blocks. To also note 4 in the other blog was apart of the code. This is a jigsaw puzzle. Now can the picture be ever 5th line? What does 5 mean in Japanese. 4=luck 7=death.

Oe maybe the message means to divide the code bites and for every byte add 300 (litteraly +300)

Diane4747,

He was saying that there are 1472 digits in the binary sequence.

Maybe it has to do with with commic 5 b/c its one of the few with no link on it and there is a pic of Micah and his fam maybe he can solve it

Anonymous,

What is a 1472 number?

"The key is on the key. A picture is 5" So does that mean a picture is 5% of something?

Now cut and paste into notepad and column it into 4. That is how it should look/read. Can not do much for formating using this comment space sorry. Now we can fill in more of the blanks.

Lets change the look of the binary code to how it should look. And start looking at 3000, 5 etc. again.

01000100 01110101 01000100 01000110 01001111 10000100 01001111 01001000 01010111 01110101 01010111 01000110 01100001 10000100 01100001 01001000 01001101 01110101 01001101 01000110 01001111 01001000 01001101 01000110 01001111 01110101 01001111 01000010 01001101 01000110 01001111 01000010 01001111 01101100 01001111 01000010 01010011 10000100 01010011 01001000 01010011 01101100 01011101 01000010 01011101 10000100 01011101 01001000 01010111 01000110 01010111 01001000 01000100 10000100 01000100 01001010 01010111 01001000 01000100 01001010 01101111 10000110 01010111 01001010 01001111 01000010 01001111 10000110 01010111 10000110 01001101 01001000 01011101 01000010 01010111 01001000 01000100 10000110 01010111 10000110 01101111 01101100 01000100 01110101 01001101 01001000 01011101 01101100 01000100 01001010 01101111 10000100 01011101 01101100 01011101 01110101 01000100 01101100 01101111 01101100 01011101 01110101 01010011 01110101 01010111 01101100 01000100 01101100 01010011 01110101 01100001 01101100 01010111 01001000 01000100 01000010 01010111 10000110 01011101 10000100 01101111 01110101 01101111 01000110 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110101 01001111 10000110 01001101 10000110 01100001 01110101 01101111 10000100 01001101 10000110 01001101 10000100 01010111 01001010 01101111 01000110 01001101 10000100 01001111 10000100 01101111 10000100 01000100 01001010 01101111 01101100 01001101 01110101 01000100 01001010 01100001 01001010 01001111 10000100 01001111 01000110 01101111 01000110 01010111 01001010 01001101 01110101 01101111 01101100 01011101 10000100 01010011 10000100 01001111 01000110 01001111 01101100 01010011 10000100 01100001 10000100

This is even more frustrating than your last blog, Hiro! Why must you speak in riddles? Why not say "Hey, Hana, if you do this than you stop this from happening!" Why make such a long puzzle? The thing you want her to prevent will have happened because she'll have been too busy solving this freaking code!

Here's the Hex code for it. Don't know if this helps anyone.

44 75 44 46 4f 84 4f 48 57 75 57 46 61 84 61 48 4d 75 4d 46 4f 48 4d 46 4f 75 4f 42 4d 46 4f 42 4f 6c 4f 42 53 84 53 48 53 6c 5d 42 5d 84 5d 48 57 46 57 48 44 84 44 4a 57 48 44 4a 6f 86 57 4a 4f 42 4f 86 57 86 4d 48 5d 42 57 48 44 86 57 86 6f 6c 44 75 4d 48 5d 6c 44 4a 6f 84 5d 6c 5d 75 44 6c 6f 6c 5d 75 53 75 57 6c 44 6c 53 75 61 6c 57 48 44 42 57 86 5d 84 6f 75 6f 46 61 6c 61 75 4f 86 4d 86 61 75 6f 84 4d 86 4d 84 57 4a 6f 46 4d 84 4f 84 6f 84 44 4a 6f 6c 4d 75 44 4a 61 4a 4f 84 4f 46 6f 46 57 4a 4d 75 6f 6c 5d 84 53 84 4f 46 4f 6c 53 84 61 84

Hmm.. that didn't show up right. maybe it's part of an html code?

I got this when I ran it through a binary decoder. DuDFO„
OHWuWFa„
aHMuMFOHMFOuOBMFOBOlOBS„
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DJWHDJo†
WJOBO†
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]l]uDlol]uSuWlDlSualWHDBW†
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DJolMuDJaJO„
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There is some sort or pattern here. I just don't know what it means.

For those of you looking at making a color bitmap out of this text, it is only 46 pixels long (+22 if you count the 3000's in hex).

46 isn't square. And its not even nicely rectangle (23x2 are its only factors).

46+22=68 isn't square either, and its possible rectangular dimensions are 17x4 or 32x2.

It's NOT a color bitmap, because if it was it'd be too small to read anything.

It's long enough to be a black and white (2-bit) picture, but I highly doubt it is. I'm still leaning toward it using a cipher.

No problem, Andre. I've been home with my two little kids all week and clearly I have too much time on my hands combined with the frustration of getting nothing but gibberish with everything I try to do to decipher this.

No problem, Andre. I've been home with my two little kids all week and clearly I have too much time on my hands combined with the frustration of getting nothing but gibberish with everything I try to do to decipher this.

i hope that help´s someone

it say in Hanna Profile

••CAUTION•• All communication regarding Hana Gitelman should be directed through non-electronic means (no email, text message, instant message, cell phone or land line). Keep all files stored at 4096-bit encryption.

Hi Hadley,

Sorry for my post. I just got scared with so much information you posted here. I'm a big fun, but I don't usually see things here, only in blogs here in Brazil. But since I saw this puzzle I'm really interested on solving it...

I think we are getting too complicated here. I don't think they would post something so hard to solve.

I'm still stuck on the 3000 thing...

Stardate for previous post is 3000.0

Stardate for this post is 2288.0

If you convert this using a stardate converter you get: Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT

If you do a google search for this date you find out that it is the final day, minute, second whatever before everything goes kablooey, time wise, in unix code. Or, to quote the website I am about to link to "So, at 3:14:07 AM GMT on that fateful day, every time_t used in a 32-bit C or C++ program will reach its upper limit. One second later, on 19-January-2038 at 3:14:08 AM GMT, disaster strikes."

See more info here: http://pw1.netcom.com/~rogermw/Y2038.html

So... does this mean that the 3000 is telling us to somehow look at the date and that's leading us to C++ or something?

Maybe it isn't... but it seems awfully random that the time of the post would be a significant time... down to the second... you know?

(Andre, I'm just another fan like you with too much time on my hands and google at my fingertips and I'm probably just making things more confusing because of it. I honestly have no more of a clue than anyone else does.)

Those are old posts from Hana's website (part of the Heroes 360 experience).

http://heroeswiki.com/Hana%27s_website

Also you can't add 3 to binary, binary is only two numbers, 0 and 1.

Andre:

I think is just a normal user. But who knows?

Just a question. Is this user Hadley who posted some links and passwords is really a user or a insider from the crew that is trying to give us some advice?

Already tried with 3000 after 4 bytes, and nothing

melovader:

Todo gira en torno al texto que dejo.

(just translating)

pa la verga no hablo ingles jajajajajaja

Type 3000 after every 4 bytes

EXAMPLE:

01003000010030000111300001013000010030000100300001

I'm thinking it will be a picture.

After "tacking on" the binary value of 3000 after every set of 8 digits, putting the new set of numbers back into groups of 8 to convert into hexadecimal values, and then grouping the hexadecimal values into sets of 3 can make RGB values for colors, and an example of what you can see is what's found at the link in my sig...

So Hiro, are you making a pretty picture for Hana?!? Do you mean "gamen" for screen?

maybe every time the digits 100 show up, you add 3000? But 3000 what? I dunno.

What if you type 3000 after every 4 bytes?

I think it will turn into a picture itself.

Possibly the DNA strand.

I was looking at it using 4 bit each (before part-time = byte) and then i added the numbers up, for example 0100 = 4. you can never get higher than 15 (1111). so look here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highcolour

16 bit color has bits 00 - 15

I'll try. Just note that, a bitmap as its name says is a map of bits. In its smallest size it would represent only the colors black (1) and white (0). So creating a bitmap image would be almost like the document pattern. And we also must now the width and size of the image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_bitmap

Most interesting: "If the number of bytes matching a horizontal line in the image is not divisible by 4, the line is padded with null-bytes."

3000 could be the null-bytes

That is what I said before.. I agree that this is an encrypted binary picture. However I can not program. Andre can you google something to see if you can make sense of this theroy.

Forget it, the message was truncated... I'll try to host this somewhere

With so many repititions in the code when converted to text it would seem to me that its some kind of binary picture. Now if anyone knows how to convert it over to that we might have something.

Anyone else notice that when you copy and paste it out that each line breaks individually, almost like they are meant to be taken individually? Just an idea.

So I've looked around, and someone made a point that the translation plays a key role here. So if "byte" was translated to "part-time worker" then "dollar", "key", "game" or "picture" could really be something else. Someone said earlier that "key" could be "kikan", which can also mean letter (either a stationary or a character). "gamen" means picture or scene. These mistranslations could have importance, as does the key on a keyboard and the key to the puzzle.

I'm done. Masi, you're the modern-day Riddler.

Allright, I have some skills with programming, so if you have some clues I can try things

Maybe if you add 3 zeros after every four bytes, the whole set turns into a picture.

"I shall bring you a game."

The Japanese word "gamen" translates to picture or scene, so that would be "I shall bring you a picture." I'm leaning towards creating a bitmap with the binary data. The rest of the text in the post is telling you how to set up the bitmap. Anyone know anything about creating bitmaps?

On the newer keyboard both symbols are on the 5 .

It seems to me that the "a picture is 5" line is telling us what the cipher is.

Many people are trying to translate from binary to ascii where E=69, but what if he's saying that the cipher is that each letter's number is its position in the alphabet?

i.e. A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, etc...

The symbol on the number 5 at the top of the keyboard is "%"

Collating the ideas that make the most sense to me, since some of them seem to be getting lost.
part-time worker -> baito -> byte
dollar -> $ -> 4
picture -> e
dollar -> 8 bits is also possible, but "Use one byte at a time, and for every 4, (add 3000)" seems more useful than "Use one byte at a time, and for every 8 buts, (add 3000)".

3000 as hex in binary (0011000000000000) seems promising, but I haven't found a way to apply it that doesn't result in gibberish, yet.

e is, as metioned in another comment, a possible Japanese translation for picture, and also the 5th letter of the alphabet, but I don't think those clues will be useful until we get the first part.

It's not the cent sign, it's the Euro sign on the 5 key.

Use one byte at a time and for every 4 bytes, add 3 zeros?

If "The picture on the key 5 is the key" is correct, then the symbol ¢ is shown as a picture in the key 5. As 100¢ represent 1 dollar, it's another trip to solve the puzzle.

So, let's see what happen if we insert the "3000" or something by separating 100 bits at a time.

I believe you have to modify the set of 1's and 0's, and translate it into text.

The sentences give a clue on how to modify the binary code.

I think you have to rearrange the sentences:

"Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000."

4 = $ on the keyboard when you press shift

For every 4 ones, add 3 zeros. Use one part at a time.???

Could we rearrange the words to make something more coherent?

"Use one byte at a time and for every 4 ones add 3 zeros"?

The second part:

The key is on the key. A picture is 5.

If you rearrange the words,

"The key is the picture on the 5 key."

The symbol on the 5 key is %.

This may relate to the name of the next episode, ".07%"

What do you guys think?

Nick, you are on track.

baito: a Japanese loan word that is pronouced "by-toe" and is written in katakana. It comes from the German work "arbeiten" which means "to work". It is what Touya uses to refer to all of his part-time jobs.

Just a bit of help, I've got another picture on my 5 key, which is under "Currency Symbols" on word's symbol dictionary, It's "€"

Hope that helps.

The english word "byte" translated to Japenese is "baito". Apparently "baito" is also slang or an abbreviation or "part-time worker" according to its usage in this URL:

http://no-sword.jp/blog/2006/05/now-if-we-can-only-get-her-to-rename.html

So the real translation of the first line as I interpret it is: "Use one byte at a time and for every 8 bits, add 3000."

Still no luck deciphering though...

There's an interesting pattern in the binary:

It begins with "01", then there is a 14 digit string of binary, then another "01", then another 14 digit string. This pattern continues throughout the entire message.

Don't know if that means anything, but I thought it was interesting.

"The key is on the key. A picture is 5."

It seems to be a kind of anagram.

What if it means "The picture on the key 5 is the key", so... '%'?

I hope to help ya... but I'm still looking for good ways to do it. =)

good luck to ya

The key is the key. The picture is 5.

The fifth picture in Linderman's gallery is 3 godsend pictures. I think this might mean something but I'm not too sure.

wow!!!!!!!!!

how can I fix this!!!!!!

XD

"The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit signed integer.)"

Link to info on timestamps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timestamp

No idea if any of this is related to figuring this out.

Now I'm really scared with you...

Anyway, the password just worked:

For C004:

username: bennet
password: GGeh81zu

[i]The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit signed integer.)[/i]

Sorry, I'm just a fan of the show. No one in the know or anything.

There was a link in the previous post from Samantha - who is Hana - which I followed to find it. Then I did some online research and found out that the site has been around for a while and I just hadn't caught on.

On another note, I was just playing around in google and entered in the date of this post and learned that the exact date and time of this post - if you convert the stardate - ties to the absolute last date stamp for a 32-bit signed interger... of which I have no idea what that was/is... so I went hunting some more and found this website:

http://pw1.netcom.com/~rogermw/Y2038.html

Again, coincidence or a clue?

Not a clue myself, but maybe it means something to someone?

Cheers,
Hadley

How the heck did you find that site?

And who is Hadley?

My first thought is that it was the password for C004 file but it does not work.

GGeh81zU is the password to the fourth - C3004 - file.

All passwords can be found here:

http://samantha48616e61.com/

-Hadley

Sorry, hard time looking at the different colors. But if you copy it from IE and paste on Word, all the words will be highlited. The correct is:

GGeh81zU

The first profile (Hana) has some letters with different color:

GGe81zU

Also, the password for each profile is written on the sketch image of the body with anotations

Wow, I was just trying that but I had no idea of the passwords... I remember trying that some weeks ago, so I decided to check it out now...

Congrats!

Go to http://www.primatechpaper.com/about.shtml touch the logo click on the symbol.

Username: bennet
Password: claire

Hana:
Check out my file – C3001

Username: bennet
Password: HGghx11a

Matt:
Click on profile C3002.

username: bennet
Password: MPggtn75x

Ted:
Click on file C3003 and type in:

Username: bennet
Password: TSntz14b

Hadley may have been on to something as well with What If

See hadley msg: c33000 ...

Okay, so, me and two friends are at out college comp lab trying to figure this out... so far, not much luck. I know that Hiro wouldn't throw up some elaborate plot to figure this out. Hana may be good with computers, but I doubt she's a logic genius. There has to be an easier anawer than all of the crazy things we are all doing. It's gotta be something simple. Something SO simple, that it would make COMPLETE sense once we've done it. Like Hiro's last puzzle. It wasn't easy, but the idea was pretty simple once we figured it out.

Let's stay along those lines.

~Kel

Ok... maybe this has nothing to do with anything, but on my comment in which I didn't place returns and pasted the long string, there are a lot of C3's which show up... which is the working group Bennet is part of over at Primatech... coincidence or part of the clue?

-Hadley

Do U remeber the passwords for the profiles on the activatingevolution.org?

We are having profiles named

C3004 C3003 C3002 C3001

we are lacking the 3000.

:)

Hey, Could the key be the answer from Hiro previous message. The key is on the key. Can anyone decode binary for images?

3000 is realted to the stardate of the prior post on Hiro`s blog??

Anyone notice that Hiro bolded To Flower maybe this is a hint.

The literal traslation from Japanese to English is so:

As for the flower, as for me it comes having the game. And the worker of use 1 part-time for all dollars adds 3000 at one time.

(CODE)

As for the key there is a key. Image is 5.

Jonasdash,

Your result is DuDF3000
From this binary traslator
http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/

Hope this helps, good idea.

Diane4747

Don't know if it was comment before but 3000 in hex is equal to 12288 (stardate) in decimal

"Use one part-time worker at a time" I'm reading this as reading 4 bits at a time, just a feeling. "And for every dollar, add 3000." Dollar = 8 bits. Maybe 3000 means three zeros?

00110011001100000011000000110000 is binary for 3000

My theory:

Take each segement of every 4 digits as "one part-time worker at a time" and then every eighth one add in the binary for 3000. Then run that through some binary or hex translators

Example: 1st segment of 4 bits at a time is 01000100011101010100010001000110 then insert 00110011001100000011000000110000

That makes 0100010001110101010001000100011000110011001100000011000000110000 the 1st 'completed' segment

I am firewalled at work and can't run this through any translators, but I suspect this may be a letter. repeate this for the entire binary message posted and we may have our message.

A prior post by "Bob" pointed out that the stardate, 12288, is represented as 0x3000 in hexadecimal. The binary representation of 12288d or 0x3000 is "11000000000000".

Maybe we have to insert that string of bits after every eight bytes.

Part time could in be 4? instead of the normal 8 hours work?

The romanization for one of the japanese words for "picture" is just the letter "e".

So "E" is 5?

"Use one part-time worker at a time" I'm reading this as reading 4 bits at a time, just a feeling. "And for every dollar, add 3000." Dollar = 8 bits. Maybe 3000 means three zeros?

That has already been noted, but it could also be some semi-faulty translation from Japanese. Would a Japanese person know about 8 bits being a dollar?

8 digits of binary equals a byte. those digits are also called bits. 8 bits= 1 DOLLAR

Oh. my. god.

Shoot, sorry, I should have put in breaks with that. Didn't even occure to me.

Could this be helpful? Binary code, using clumps of 5 digits, representing the alphabet?

http://www.csiro.com.au/scope/activities/e01c01activity.htm

Like someone said, part of the key to fully understanding the hints are translating them back to Japanese, since the author wrote it in that. it's probably just part-time worker and possibly dollar that matters though

Oh! and 3 rows end in "1000", which (as someone said before) is how many words a picture is worth... maybe "1000" at the end of a row should be changed to 101 (binary for 5)? Doing that and adding 101110111000 to each row that ends in 0100 still doesn't make it divisible by 8, but maybe it doesn't need to be?

Hmm again... 7 rows end in 0100... I tried adding 7 of the binary for 3000, as Silent Ounce posted it, but that didn't make it divisible by 8 either (although it did only leave 4 numbers left over)... I'm not a binary guy, but maybe it's somewhat sensible if 101110111000 is added to the end of each line that ends in 0100?

Hmm. If you break each row into bytes, you get a series of bytes and then 4 bits left over (if I remember correctly 4 bits are called a "nibble"). A bunch of the nibbles left over are 0100, which could be a "dollar"? Maybe nibbles are "part time workers"?

After looking at it again I'm fairly sure that the first thing that needs to be done is translating it back into Japanese. After all, it was autotranslated. The numbers will remain the same, but the Japanese text may offer additional clues.

One part time worker xxxx.
For every dollar 0100 add 3000 (101110111000). And I still ended up with something not divisible evenly by 8. D'oh. Thought I had it

Auto-Translated by: Yamagato Software? is he in japan again?

Maybe adding means use some bit operation like OR, AND, etc...

Maybe a dollar is 100 (1.00)

0.07%

0.07%

has anyone looked at their KEYboard lately? 010 - lol!

What is the significance of of adding three thousand in place of/after every dollar? do they mean to add 3000 in binary every so often (which is 00110011001100000011000000110000)? Did we decide every dollar is a bit, and that we half that as the "part-time" implies?

"Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000."

A part time worker is a temp. For every 8 bits add 3000. So count up the total number of 8 bit words and multiply by 3000.

"The key is on the key. A picture is 5."

On a keyboard the 5 key has a % picture on it. So could the key be "%"?

Just typing out loud trying to help.

hola soy de san juan , argentina esta mas que claro que lo que esta escondido es un estilo de vida del ser Humano... gracias y me gustaria viajar a los estudios de " Universal Chanel"...

The final result text must be from this mess of letters:

DuDFO„OHWuWFa„aHmuMFOHMFOuOBMFOBOlOBS„SHSl]B]„]HWFWHD„DJWHDJo†WJOBO†W†MH]BWHD†W†olDuMH]lDJo„]l]uDlol]uSuWlDlSualWHDBW†]„ouoFalauO†M†auo„M†M„WJoFM„O„o„DJolMuDJaJO„OFoFWJMuol]„S„OFOlS„a„�

But we have to work, as a encryption text, the key is the ciphers(code) that we have to discovery to apply to the text above, should be to switch same letters from others letters or even transpose the order of it shows in the text.

The question remains, which cipher (code) use now, from the riddle "
The key is on the key. A picture is 5. "

there is no number on the key that simone brought back to issac that i can see. in both places she deals with the keys, there is no showing a number.

Did anyone notice that some columns are anti-aliased and some are not? Thought that might help.

click on this 'Diane4747' to go to her myspace. Very interesting. Also interesting is this 'Psychoholic-Genius' who's left some comments on her page. Definitely check out her blog and pictures and all that stuff.

Very interesting.

ARg, one last thing before I go to bed (and peeps on 9th Wonders, I tried registering, but I never got a confirmation email, so I would be sharing this with y'all, I put my user page URL for the link).

The last post had 19 long lines, with a shorter 20th line. This post has the binary setup in a similar fashion. So the previous post plays some importance. They're "shaped" in the same way. When you break down the bits into bytes, there are 9.5 bytes per line, the 20th line having 7. I don't see a correlation with the amount of words per line from the last one and the bits on this one, but it's apparent they're making the previous post important to this one. Perhaps the "key" (as in the important factor, not cryptographical sense) to the puzzle is on the last blog's key..."The key is on the key" -> "The focus is on bound between 47 on the 15th character" or something like that.

Whew, I'm done. This is how I spend my spring break...breaking codes from a fictitious television character at 1am.

For the Techs out there:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5141596&messageID=9521889

..."
I need to store an image as a String, this would not be as hard if the String didnt need to be in "hex" format, i can convert the image to byte array. and i have this code to convert it to a String, but i am not sure how to convert it back to a byte array.. the same byte array. ...."

They also have the code for java. Hope this helps.

Has anyone checked this out:
Grey Code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code

Wow, they give us a big hint and I thought I was in the right direction.

The stardate, when translated to hexidecimal, is 3000. So, we need to translate the bytes into hex. Then ASCII I'd imagine.

So the word for part-time job was stated earlier, but the slang for it is "baito", which is translated in English poorly to Byte (8 bits), such as the game WTF Baito Hell from Sony.

Sooo, to paraphrase:
Use one byte (part-time worker) at a time and for every byte (8 bits or a dollar), add 3000.

Now, the question is are we physically adding 3000 or are we adding something else (the previous blog posted at Stardate 3000, "3000" in ASCII, etc)?

After that, what are they talking about with the key and the picture?

ARg, I need sleep

Might be worth noting that the puzzle is addressed to "flower"

Flower in Japanese is Hana.

Does anyone understand this:
"...Sequential search: 3000
Binary search: at least 13 "

Maybe this can help the cause :)

Two things that have not yet been mentioned that I thought might be noteworthy:
300 is MMM in Roman numerals.

When I looked "key" up in wikipedia, I learned that "The Key" is a DC Comics Supervillian.
It might mean nothing, but the picture of him on wikipedia is from the promotional cover art for Batman: Gotham Knights #5.

Since it talks about money, I wonder if it's a set of instructions for playing a game at the casino? picture could refer to the slots. The chips can be used to make 3000.

How about this:

Use 1 block of 4 bits at a time on the fifth block use the binary code for 3000. Then keep repeating itself to get a picture.

Something like that, maybe someone can work with.

How about this.
Simone was trying to give Issac back his key and he told her to keep it and he is the only one that draws pictures. What was his fifth picture and can anyone get an image of the key. I remember the camera shot focused on the key. Maybe the number is on it? What was his apartment number? What is Issac in binary?

Could this be a book cipher? Take half (part-time worker) of each byte (eight bits = dollar). Now apply them to the Stardate 3000 puzzle. Maybe the first number is the line and the second number is the letter in that line? Then "the key is on the key" could mean "the way to solve this puzzle is from the last puzzle." But "a picture is 5" confuses me. Still stuck on that.

your translation for "key" in binary isnt right. you gave "Key-", key in binary is 01101011 01100101 01111001.

the binary for 3000 as text is 00110011 00110000 00110000 00110000.

just a couple ideas, one definition of key "Computers. a field or group of characters within a record that identifies the record, establishing its position among sorted records, and/or provides information about its contents."
also theres a good chance that on of the "key"s is about a keyboard key.

Okay, I just thought of this - if the key is on the key, and the binary for 8 bits is on the binary for key, than 8 bits would be the key, right?

U need to do a HEROES SYMBOL , remember that episod , that mohinder descover the password to acess Suresh files.... we need do a big picture with "0" and "1" .... that is the anwers

I've been tinkering around with this. What I found was - pertaining to the clues -

1 dollar could also be 8 bits - the binary of which is "10101101"

The binary for 3000 is "1011 1011 1000"

The japanese word for "part time job" is Arubaito - the binary for which is "0100000101110010011101010110001001100001011 01001011 1010001101111001
00000"

The binary for key is "01001011 0110010101111001 10101101"

I've broken the binary for "key into 3 parts - the first part is the letter k. It is found in the binary for key, as well as the binary for Arubaito. The second part is the binary for "ey." and finally, the third part of the word "key" is the binary for "8 bits."

I'm curious as to why the binary for key isn't just "k" and "ey" - why "8 bits" is tacked on there. I hope this helps someone.

I just thought, in Binary, 5 is 101. What if you took every occurence of 1000 (# of words a picture is worth) and replaced it with 101?

I went to http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
and c/p'd the code in, and what I got was:

DuDFO„OHWuWFa„aHMuMFOHMFOuOBMFOBOlOBS„SHSl]B]„]HWFWHD„DJWHDJo†WJOBO†W†MH]BWHD†W†olDuMH]lDJo„]l]uDlol]uSuWlDlSualWHDBW†]„ouoFalauO†M†auo„M†M„WJoFM„O„o„DJolMuDJaJO„OFoFWJMuol]„S„OFOlS„a„�

but then it says "the key is on the e", so maybe the person who typed the 'gibberish' had their left middle finger on the e instead of the d, where it's normally supposed to go. (the whole homerow idea).

I'm gonna try and figure out through this and see if I can get anything...

Here is the alphabet based on the hexadecimal system... however, if that is a key to the code, I have clearly missed something because so far all of my tinkering is spelling out "Dudfo..."

Anyway...

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/ascii.html

It's been a while since I did anything with binary. But yeah, if you think about it... the number you get is 42000. 5 digits long. The picture is 5. ??

When you add 300 (binary form) to the first 24 bits, you get all one's (FFF in hex).

Does this help anyone?

.... design a display decoder that decodes
a 5-bit binary number coming from the 4-bit adder (four Sum bits and one
Carry_out bit) and which displays the results on a 7-segment LED display.

source: http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=binary+5+bitdecoder&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2&x=wrt&u=www.seas.upenn.edu/%257Eese201/labise/Lab02_4bAdder.pdf&w=binary+5+bitdecoder+%22bit+decoder%22&d=fGBMgBIeOSe2&icp=1&.intl=us

try do a 5 with this number, and u will see a msg...i guess xD

Sweet! Another riddle!

A link?

Use the decoder named Neribas, and type the numbers in, you will get a picture, you will get some funny words

So I broke it down into bytes (as stated before). I found a pattern after every 8 bytes:

44 75 44 46 4F 84 4F 48
57 75 57 46 61 84 61 48

Then when I get to the third line, it breaks:
4D 75 4D 46 4F [b]48 4D 46[/b]

The code didn't change when NBC updated the blog, so I think that may have something to do with a pattern. It's after 168 bits or 21 bytes.

14 * 3000 = 42000 not 4200.

At least the formatting is back the way it was.

It's a picture... like unfocus your eyes and you'll see something, though I am not good at this, it looks like that symbol on Hiro's weapon.

When the binary is converted into DEC it spits out this.

68 117 68 70 79 132 79 72 87 117 87 70 97 132 97 72 77 117 77 70 79 72 77 70 79 117 79 66 77 70 79 66 79 108 79 66 83 132 83 72 83 108 93 66 93 132 93 72 87 70 87 72 68 132 68 74 87 72 68 74 111 134 87 74 79 66 79 134 87 134 77 72 93 66 87 72 68 134 87 134 111 108 68 117 77 72 93 108 68 74 111 132 93 108 93 117 68 108 111 108 93 117 83 117 87 108 68 108 83 117 97 108 87 72 68 66 87 134 93 132 111 117 111 70 97 108 97 117 79 134 77 134 97 117 111 132 77 134 77 132 87 74 111 70 77 132 79 132 111 132 68 74 111 108 77 117 68 74 97 74 79 132 79 70 111 70 87 74 77 117 111 108 93 132 83 132 79 70 79 108 83 132 97 132

The number 117 comes up 14 times. The us dollar equals 117 yen. So, 14 dollars x 3000 (add 3000 for every dollar) = 4200. Anything goes from there.

48616e61 is hexidecimal-encoded ASCII, which translates to the name "Hana".

0x48 = "H"
0x61 = "a"
0x6e = "n"
0x61 = "a"

btw, "0x" is the prefix that designates that a number is hexadecimal rather than decimal.

What happened to the clue about "Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000"? It's a little frustrating that they don't make sure that these things are ready to be posted when they post them. It's like the codes that Hana sent out to access the Primatech files. They didn't work for at least several hours after the messages were sent. This thing has been in a state of flux since it was posted. Is this part of the puzzle?

48616e61 is hexadecimal for Hana I think it's unrelated to this puzzle except that Hana would probably be especially good at deciphering a binary puzzle.

I've always thought Hana's website address was strange because of the: 48616e61 after samantha. I wonder if that has anything to do with solving this game???

A picture file is a BINARY file, not a series of ASCII characters. If this is a image we need some kind of converter/decoder for image.

The "Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000." have been removed?

By the way, in the old days, a dollar used to be referred to as "eight bits". Like the old song "shave and a hair cut - two bits" meant a shave and a haircut cost 25 cents. So the "interval" is probably every eight bits

So he uses the term "for every dollar add 3000" which would mean at an interval you increment. I divided the message into bytes (8 bits) and got 184 bytes, but when I tried to do a count to see which byte was used most, there wasn't a significant dominant character, so this would indicate that it's being incremented. FYI: an ASCII character is two hexidecimal characters, or a byte in binary notation. So, by adding a value after a certain interval, the message can be decoded...hopefully haha

Information on binary numbers...maybe this will help someone crack it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system

He mentioned adding... maybe the info on adding will help? I don't know...

"Freeter" is the English-Japanese word for a "Part-time worker". Does is have another meaning in the binary world??

OMG everyone I just noticed the post is by 'Jotaro Kujo' whereas in the past they're by Hiro. This might not be Hiro.

This is gonna be hard.
But for sure this -> "Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000."
is a way to solve the problem.

Not sure how much help this is, but the stardate (12288.0) this entry was posted equates to:

Tue, 16 Apr 2335 02:52:48 GMT

That would be because it is likely a code. An encryption needs a key. My guess is the key to the encryption is on a key that they share knowledge about. "Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000." This probably refers to some kind of encryption method or other way to break the code. Now, if I knew anything about code-breaking and cryptography, there would likely be a simple way to solve this.

looks like he just ANDed ASCII characters with a binary string.

hm... we have 1472 number =p

I hate this puzzles cause most of the time I dont hav a clue about how to solve´em !!!
But its good fun watcthing others doin it!!!

....damn, popped that into a Binary translator, and got nothing but gibberish.... Hmmmm.....