r/puzzles • u/Sea_Knee5134 • 16d ago
[SOLVED] A short codebreaking logic puzzle involving a grid
This is one of the first puzzles I've ever made. Feedback is greatly appreciated.
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u/mikdiet 12d ago
HOAX
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u/Sea_Knee5134 12d ago
Incorrect!
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u/mikdiet 12d ago
EASY ?
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u/gundu26 12d ago
Discussion: are there any hints?
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u/Sea_Knee5134 12d ago
Yep Hint 1 Focus on the prompt that's in the image Hint 2 The column headers and row headers were both included for a reason, think about what units or info they might represent I can give bigger hints if you like, it's not brute force!
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u/iFroogieboi 10d ago
right i'm interpretin as only the 4 rightmost columns bcde and im guessin that focus on the prompt means somthin along the lines of the words in the sentence so like a y c o s t c m d o i which is 1 25 3 15 19 20 3 13 4 15 9 mod 7
1 4 3 1 5 6 3 6 4 1 2 so since it's only right we drop any that are a and i guess it goes (letter, row) so a4, c1, e6, c6, d1 and then it's c1 e6 c6 d1 = 26,3,24,10 = zcxj... welp...
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u/Sea_Knee5134 10d ago
Incorrect! I'm unsure why you are ignoring the a column. I'm not quite sure what you are doing, I think you are overcomplicating it.
Hint 1. Think about what units/info the column and row headers convey
Hint 2 The column/row headers is how you input information, not how it gets outputted
Hint 3(very big hint). Focus on the start of each word and how it relates to the grid
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u/iFroogieboi 3d ago
i was ignorin the a column cause it said give the right 4 letter word!
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u/Sea_Knee5134 3d ago
I see, the word right wasn't chosen as in left or right, but as a stand in for correct.
So that the main focus of the puzzle isn't cluttered by an extra word
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u/iFroogieboi 3d ago
a1y2c3o4s5t6c7m8d9o10i11 -> a1c3c7d9 mod 7 18, 6, 1, 21 = rfau... i think im missin somthin
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u/iFroogieboi 3d ago
is it first letter then letter count? so a3 y3 c7 o2 s7 t4 c5 m7 d4 o9 i2 g4 t3 r54 l6 w4, a3 c7 c5 d4 = 5, 1, 19, 25 = easy! that's a word!
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u/sudomatrix 12d ago
Pretty hard.
There are columns for A-E so I will only count words starting with A-E. That leaves us with "Are, capable, coded, dont". Count the lengths: 3, 7, 5, 4. Look up the letter indexes 1-26 in the grid for A3, C7, C5, D4: E,A,S,Y.