The secret behind a word
The following text tells an English word by describing each of its letters (in individual sentences).
What's the answer to this question?
&I'm the difference between 7 and even. A dash between two vertical bars. Up-left, Up-right and straight down.;
Hint 1 (Updated):
There are two answers: One obvious one and one obscure one. The obvious one is a 3-letter word (correctly answered), and the obscure one is a 3-digit number.
The obvious one isn't quite hard, but
What does the leading and the trailing punctuation marks do? (after replacing sentences with the letters they describe)
combine with the above one:
What is this question's tag?
Tips:
You might need some programming skills to figure out the obscure answer.
steganography
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The following text tells an English word by describing each of its letters (in individual sentences).
What's the answer to this question?
&I'm the difference between 7 and even. A dash between two vertical bars. Up-left, Up-right and straight down.;
Hint 1 (Updated):
There are two answers: One obvious one and one obscure one. The obvious one is a 3-letter word (correctly answered), and the obscure one is a 3-digit number.
The obvious one isn't quite hard, but
What does the leading and the trailing punctuation marks do? (after replacing sentences with the letters they describe)
combine with the above one:
What is this question's tag?
Tips:
You might need some programming skills to figure out the obscure answer.
steganography
add a comment |
The following text tells an English word by describing each of its letters (in individual sentences).
What's the answer to this question?
&I'm the difference between 7 and even. A dash between two vertical bars. Up-left, Up-right and straight down.;
Hint 1 (Updated):
There are two answers: One obvious one and one obscure one. The obvious one is a 3-letter word (correctly answered), and the obscure one is a 3-digit number.
The obvious one isn't quite hard, but
What does the leading and the trailing punctuation marks do? (after replacing sentences with the letters they describe)
combine with the above one:
What is this question's tag?
Tips:
You might need some programming skills to figure out the obscure answer.
steganography
The following text tells an English word by describing each of its letters (in individual sentences).
What's the answer to this question?
&I'm the difference between 7 and even. A dash between two vertical bars. Up-left, Up-right and straight down.;
Hint 1 (Updated):
There are two answers: One obvious one and one obscure one. The obvious one is a 3-letter word (correctly answered), and the obscure one is a 3-digit number.
The obvious one isn't quite hard, but
What does the leading and the trailing punctuation marks do? (after replacing sentences with the letters they describe)
combine with the above one:
What is this question's tag?
Tips:
You might need some programming skills to figure out the obscure answer.
steganography
steganography
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Cheers to iBug/kanoo for identifying the first part of the riddle. Building off of their answer:
This puzzle has the 'steganography' tag. Using their answer, we look more closely at the question and notice:
In the part from "I'm..." to "...Up-left", each pair of consecutive characters is actually broken up by dozens of invisible soft hyphens.
Deciphering:
Counting the number of soft hyphens between each pair of characters, the counts feature a lot of 32s and are largely in the range 97-122, which indicates these are ASCII values.
In decimal, the counts are73 39 109 32 103 108 97 100 32 116 104 97 116 32 121 111 117 32 100 101 99 105 112 104 101 114 101 100 32 116 104 105 115 46 32 87 104 97 116 39 115 32 116 104 101 32 96 111 114 100 40 41 96 32 118 97 108 117 101 32 111 102 32 116 104 97 116 32 99 104 97 114 97 99 116 101 114 63
In text, this says:I'm glad that you deciphered this. What's the `ord()` value of that character?
Answer:
In Python, PHP, and probably more, the 'ord' function takes in a character, and returns its ASCII value. So the final answer is the ASCII value of the soft hyphen, which is 173.
It’s not part of ASCII, but that’s its position in Unicode.
– Ry-
Nov 10 at 16:17
hey, don't cheers for me, I'm the OP
– iBug
Nov 11 at 1:57
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Could it be
Hyphen?
Difference between 7 and even:
S+even-even = S
Dash between two vertical bars:
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right, straight down:
+ / + | = Y
Resulting in
­
which we can see is a 'soft hyphen' in many programming settings, meant to break words across lines with an inserted hyphen. It is also called a 'syllable hyphen'.
Wikipedia has a page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
Good catch. You might want to take a look at the updated Hint 1, as well as the new Hint 3.
– iBug
Nov 10 at 13:20
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the obvious one may be
shy
I'm the difference between 7 and even.
seven - even = S
A dash between two vertical bars.
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right and straight down.;
/ and | = Y
add a comment |
Partial
I'm the difference between 7 and even
S , (Seven - even)
A dash between two vertical bars
H, ( |-| )
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Cheers to iBug/kanoo for identifying the first part of the riddle. Building off of their answer:
This puzzle has the 'steganography' tag. Using their answer, we look more closely at the question and notice:
In the part from "I'm..." to "...Up-left", each pair of consecutive characters is actually broken up by dozens of invisible soft hyphens.
Deciphering:
Counting the number of soft hyphens between each pair of characters, the counts feature a lot of 32s and are largely in the range 97-122, which indicates these are ASCII values.
In decimal, the counts are73 39 109 32 103 108 97 100 32 116 104 97 116 32 121 111 117 32 100 101 99 105 112 104 101 114 101 100 32 116 104 105 115 46 32 87 104 97 116 39 115 32 116 104 101 32 96 111 114 100 40 41 96 32 118 97 108 117 101 32 111 102 32 116 104 97 116 32 99 104 97 114 97 99 116 101 114 63
In text, this says:I'm glad that you deciphered this. What's the `ord()` value of that character?
Answer:
In Python, PHP, and probably more, the 'ord' function takes in a character, and returns its ASCII value. So the final answer is the ASCII value of the soft hyphen, which is 173.
It’s not part of ASCII, but that’s its position in Unicode.
– Ry-
Nov 10 at 16:17
hey, don't cheers for me, I'm the OP
– iBug
Nov 11 at 1:57
add a comment |
Cheers to iBug/kanoo for identifying the first part of the riddle. Building off of their answer:
This puzzle has the 'steganography' tag. Using their answer, we look more closely at the question and notice:
In the part from "I'm..." to "...Up-left", each pair of consecutive characters is actually broken up by dozens of invisible soft hyphens.
Deciphering:
Counting the number of soft hyphens between each pair of characters, the counts feature a lot of 32s and are largely in the range 97-122, which indicates these are ASCII values.
In decimal, the counts are73 39 109 32 103 108 97 100 32 116 104 97 116 32 121 111 117 32 100 101 99 105 112 104 101 114 101 100 32 116 104 105 115 46 32 87 104 97 116 39 115 32 116 104 101 32 96 111 114 100 40 41 96 32 118 97 108 117 101 32 111 102 32 116 104 97 116 32 99 104 97 114 97 99 116 101 114 63
In text, this says:I'm glad that you deciphered this. What's the `ord()` value of that character?
Answer:
In Python, PHP, and probably more, the 'ord' function takes in a character, and returns its ASCII value. So the final answer is the ASCII value of the soft hyphen, which is 173.
It’s not part of ASCII, but that’s its position in Unicode.
– Ry-
Nov 10 at 16:17
hey, don't cheers for me, I'm the OP
– iBug
Nov 11 at 1:57
add a comment |
Cheers to iBug/kanoo for identifying the first part of the riddle. Building off of their answer:
This puzzle has the 'steganography' tag. Using their answer, we look more closely at the question and notice:
In the part from "I'm..." to "...Up-left", each pair of consecutive characters is actually broken up by dozens of invisible soft hyphens.
Deciphering:
Counting the number of soft hyphens between each pair of characters, the counts feature a lot of 32s and are largely in the range 97-122, which indicates these are ASCII values.
In decimal, the counts are73 39 109 32 103 108 97 100 32 116 104 97 116 32 121 111 117 32 100 101 99 105 112 104 101 114 101 100 32 116 104 105 115 46 32 87 104 97 116 39 115 32 116 104 101 32 96 111 114 100 40 41 96 32 118 97 108 117 101 32 111 102 32 116 104 97 116 32 99 104 97 114 97 99 116 101 114 63
In text, this says:I'm glad that you deciphered this. What's the `ord()` value of that character?
Answer:
In Python, PHP, and probably more, the 'ord' function takes in a character, and returns its ASCII value. So the final answer is the ASCII value of the soft hyphen, which is 173.
Cheers to iBug/kanoo for identifying the first part of the riddle. Building off of their answer:
This puzzle has the 'steganography' tag. Using their answer, we look more closely at the question and notice:
In the part from "I'm..." to "...Up-left", each pair of consecutive characters is actually broken up by dozens of invisible soft hyphens.
Deciphering:
Counting the number of soft hyphens between each pair of characters, the counts feature a lot of 32s and are largely in the range 97-122, which indicates these are ASCII values.
In decimal, the counts are73 39 109 32 103 108 97 100 32 116 104 97 116 32 121 111 117 32 100 101 99 105 112 104 101 114 101 100 32 116 104 105 115 46 32 87 104 97 116 39 115 32 116 104 101 32 96 111 114 100 40 41 96 32 118 97 108 117 101 32 111 102 32 116 104 97 116 32 99 104 97 114 97 99 116 101 114 63
In text, this says:I'm glad that you deciphered this. What's the `ord()` value of that character?
Answer:
In Python, PHP, and probably more, the 'ord' function takes in a character, and returns its ASCII value. So the final answer is the ASCII value of the soft hyphen, which is 173.
answered Nov 10 at 16:02
ManyPinkHats
6,09922746
6,09922746
It’s not part of ASCII, but that’s its position in Unicode.
– Ry-
Nov 10 at 16:17
hey, don't cheers for me, I'm the OP
– iBug
Nov 11 at 1:57
add a comment |
It’s not part of ASCII, but that’s its position in Unicode.
– Ry-
Nov 10 at 16:17
hey, don't cheers for me, I'm the OP
– iBug
Nov 11 at 1:57
It’s not part of ASCII, but that’s its position in Unicode.
– Ry-
Nov 10 at 16:17
It’s not part of ASCII, but that’s its position in Unicode.
– Ry-
Nov 10 at 16:17
hey, don't cheers for me, I'm the OP
– iBug
Nov 11 at 1:57
hey, don't cheers for me, I'm the OP
– iBug
Nov 11 at 1:57
add a comment |
Could it be
Hyphen?
Difference between 7 and even:
S+even-even = S
Dash between two vertical bars:
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right, straight down:
+ / + | = Y
Resulting in
­
which we can see is a 'soft hyphen' in many programming settings, meant to break words across lines with an inserted hyphen. It is also called a 'syllable hyphen'.
Wikipedia has a page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
Good catch. You might want to take a look at the updated Hint 1, as well as the new Hint 3.
– iBug
Nov 10 at 13:20
add a comment |
Could it be
Hyphen?
Difference between 7 and even:
S+even-even = S
Dash between two vertical bars:
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right, straight down:
+ / + | = Y
Resulting in
­
which we can see is a 'soft hyphen' in many programming settings, meant to break words across lines with an inserted hyphen. It is also called a 'syllable hyphen'.
Wikipedia has a page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
Good catch. You might want to take a look at the updated Hint 1, as well as the new Hint 3.
– iBug
Nov 10 at 13:20
add a comment |
Could it be
Hyphen?
Difference between 7 and even:
S+even-even = S
Dash between two vertical bars:
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right, straight down:
+ / + | = Y
Resulting in
­
which we can see is a 'soft hyphen' in many programming settings, meant to break words across lines with an inserted hyphen. It is also called a 'syllable hyphen'.
Wikipedia has a page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
Could it be
Hyphen?
Difference between 7 and even:
S+even-even = S
Dash between two vertical bars:
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right, straight down:
+ / + | = Y
Resulting in
­
which we can see is a 'soft hyphen' in many programming settings, meant to break words across lines with an inserted hyphen. It is also called a 'syllable hyphen'.
Wikipedia has a page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
edited Nov 10 at 13:43
iBug
640118
640118
answered Nov 10 at 12:56
kanoo
1,966328
1,966328
Good catch. You might want to take a look at the updated Hint 1, as well as the new Hint 3.
– iBug
Nov 10 at 13:20
add a comment |
Good catch. You might want to take a look at the updated Hint 1, as well as the new Hint 3.
– iBug
Nov 10 at 13:20
Good catch. You might want to take a look at the updated Hint 1, as well as the new Hint 3.
– iBug
Nov 10 at 13:20
Good catch. You might want to take a look at the updated Hint 1, as well as the new Hint 3.
– iBug
Nov 10 at 13:20
add a comment |
the obvious one may be
shy
I'm the difference between 7 and even.
seven - even = S
A dash between two vertical bars.
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right and straight down.;
/ and | = Y
add a comment |
the obvious one may be
shy
I'm the difference between 7 and even.
seven - even = S
A dash between two vertical bars.
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right and straight down.;
/ and | = Y
add a comment |
the obvious one may be
shy
I'm the difference between 7 and even.
seven - even = S
A dash between two vertical bars.
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right and straight down.;
/ and | = Y
the obvious one may be
shy
I'm the difference between 7 and even.
seven - even = S
A dash between two vertical bars.
|-| = H
Up-left, up-right and straight down.;
/ and | = Y
edited Nov 10 at 11:24
iBug
640118
640118
answered Nov 10 at 9:37
SteveV
5,0502628
5,0502628
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Partial
I'm the difference between 7 and even
S , (Seven - even)
A dash between two vertical bars
H, ( |-| )
add a comment |
Partial
I'm the difference between 7 and even
S , (Seven - even)
A dash between two vertical bars
H, ( |-| )
add a comment |
Partial
I'm the difference between 7 and even
S , (Seven - even)
A dash between two vertical bars
H, ( |-| )
Partial
I'm the difference between 7 and even
S , (Seven - even)
A dash between two vertical bars
H, ( |-| )
answered Nov 10 at 7:32
Shahriar Mahmud Sajid
3,488631
3,488631
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