Braingle: 'Just Enough Time to Deliver the Message' Brain Teaser

Just Enough Time to Deliver the Message

In Cryptography teasers, a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and then decode the message to find the answer.

Puzzle ID:	#24001
Fun:	(3.13)
Difficulty:	(2.48)
Category:	Cryptography
Submitted By:	Swordoffury1392

Justin Case and Auntie Bellum are fellow con artists who deliver coded messages to each other to communicate. Recently Auntie Bellum was put in jail for stealing a rare and expensive diamond. Only a few days after this, Justin Case sent her a friendly letter asking her how she was. On the inside of the envelope of the letter, he hid a code. Yesterday, Auntie Bellum escaped and left the envelope and the letter inside the jail cell. The police did some research and found the code on the inside of the envelope, but they haven't been able to crack it. Could you help the police find out what the message is?

This is the code:
llwatchawtfeclocklnisksundialcirbetimersool

Hint

It was a TIMED escape.
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Comments

froggygg Jun 25, 2005	Very good teaser. You almost got me but I figured it out just before I hit the answer!
Swordoffury1392 Jun 25, 2005	Hope you like my newest teaser!
AmyJo0206 Jun 26, 2005	you had me baffled! Good job... I really enjoyed this teaser
Riddlerman Jun 30, 2005	I was on the right tracks. I noticed there were clocks and sundials etc. hidden but i didn't think about reading the message backwards. great teaser. I'll add it to my favs.
Yoyobug02 Jul 04, 2005	awesome teaser
ricangrl787 Jul 07, 2005	great teaser.... i was way off i thought that it had something to do with time because i saw the words in there but you got me... good one!
Frost1250 Jul 08, 2005	Wasnt Really That Hard, And I Dont Suppose You To Much Time In the story Line, The mix words can be harder but you still put creative in it am not gonna be a credict, so i still give a god job and Decently Hard For People Who Dont Understand Minor Codeing.
lucylizzy Jul 09, 2005	yay i got it! well, i looked at the hint but that's understandable, right...?
Fester Jul 10, 2005	have to say that was an intriguing one. Nice.
hotbeaverchick Jul 12, 2005	i liked it, i thought it had something to do with time, and then i looked at the hint, and yeah but i didnt get it. just thought it had to do with time. but good one.
hellokitty593 Jul 13, 2005	I knew that there was something to do with time, but I didn't now that the message was spelled backwards. Great Job!
Tiggr Jul 26, 2005	All I was seeing was words thats related to timepieces, I was clueless as to anything being stuck in there bacwards.
lycanthrope Jul 26, 2005	ditto tigger
TsunamiSurfer Jul 26, 2005	Hi: Thoug this kind of teasers are difficult for me to "crack", I enjoy them. I like short stories.This is a good one. quack - quack
libradawn Jul 26, 2005	Excellent!
redneck_woman Jul 26, 2005	I need help just figuring out Frost1 250's comment! Really good teaser, Nancy Drew would be proud of you!
ilovegame Jul 26, 2005	That was a really awesome teaser!
StOoPs Jul 26, 2005	That was a great one! Like most other people, I did see the "time" words in there -- but I didn't think to take them out or read the message backwards. This one's definitely in my favorites!
bagogirl Jul 26, 2005	wow that was hard, I only got the time words
Swordoffury1392 Jul 26, 2005	Thanks everybody for the positive feedback.
riddlelover Jul 26, 2005	Man, that was hard. I wouldn't have gotten it in a million years. Keep em comin'.
angeleyes_7 Jul 26, 2005	Very good teaser!! However, I didn't get the answer right.
poison_ivy Jul 26, 2005	Very good teaser! And difficult!
poison_ivy Jul 26, 2005	Very good teaser! And difficult!
Ilovepink4 Jul 26, 2005	It was ok.
joeschmo Jul 26, 2005	whoa that was too hard i gave up on it.... but it was good...
jabdr Jul 26, 2005	Swordoffury, I loved this. Didn't get anything but the time words, but I enjoy them even more when I see how obvious the answers are and I'm clueless..
(user deleted) Jul 26, 2005	it was
elu93 Jul 27, 2005	All I could see was watch, clock, sundial, and time.
MTK_90 Jul 27, 2005	I WAS BLINDED THE WHOLE TIME!
MTK_90 Jul 27, 2005	I WAS BLIND THE WHOLE TIME!
loveshellylove Aug 04, 2005	Very good teaser!!! I loved it!
smarty_blondy Aug 18, 2005	Ok mr. tough guy, lets see if you can decode this ! svafsecondymonthotweekseogcenturyenoyearsihtdecade bojhourtnellecxe a bit easier that yours, you must addmit
Swordoffury1392 Aug 19, 2005	Excellent job this one goes to my favs. Thanks smarty blondy (and everyone else)! Happy that you liked it.
FulanitoGM Aug 29, 2005	I know this is totally late, but I had to leave my bragging on here for posterity. I GOT IT!!! On the first try, too! I don't know what clicked in my head, but I thought, "What if I ignore the obvious words?" Wrote it out, started crossing out the words I could see, and almost got stuck on "timer" (couldn't decide if it was "time" or "timer"). Then I looked at what was left and at first, I thought I was going to have to find more words to cross out, but then it just popped out at me. When I saw that I got it right, I thought about how the police in the story were pretty lame if I could figure it out and their crack team of experts couldn't! Great teaser! Another great addition to my faves list!
Winner4600 Sep 03, 2005	smartyblondy, you need another m...ymmonth
edgwood Oct 11, 2005	the puzzle was lots of fun thanks ilike reading the comments & have to agree with redneck woman.what was that???
trumpetsgirl Oct 27, 2005	This was fun even if i did get stuck on the obvious
nightowl19 Jan 03, 2006	I didn't get it, but it was still fun!
teen_wiz Feb 18, 2006	THAT WUZ AWESOME! Great job! Definitely going in my faves!
SPUTNIK2 Feb 20, 2006	FUN! FUN! FUN!
GebbieRose Jun 07, 2006	Easy, but as usual, clever & nicely done.
danielzerman Jun 20, 2006	easy but good
OldChinaHand Jul 26, 2006	I tried this once 'South of the border', used reversed masonry to get out of my cell, but just ended up butt backwards in front of a firing squad. Fun teaser.
Badger Jul 26, 2006	Lots of fun and very clever! I agree with redneckwoman. It read like something out of Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. Thanks for submitting. PS: You can always count on OCH (Old China Hand) for a good laugh in the morning!
shawneeo Jul 26, 2006	faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHa ha, coach! This was a good one, SoF! I wish I was as advanced as the obviously very advanced code-breaker who commented above at the very beginning, about "minor codeing". I've noticed a popular code on Braingle is to misspell so many words so badly that the words become unrecognizable! lol! Actually, with this one, the hint threw me off, because then it made me think the msg.would about what time to escape! I actually had looked backward but wasn't looking at the right groups of letters. Thanks!
underherfeet Jul 26, 2006	revelcbigtonsondabfibtaifllatall,,,with 2 and 3 letter words taken out, total 5, rest is my answer?
bradon182001 Jul 26, 2006	This was interesting.Would have to say good teaser, because it sure stumped me.
kcheer2493 Jul 26, 2006	I almost got It, I was on to something, But then just gave up, Good Job
locutus13ds Jul 26, 2006	I saw the words, but couldn't figure it out. Time to hang it up!
kman613 Jul 26, 2006	Too hard for me, but I had a great time trying to figure it out before reading the answer...
Pizzazz2u Jul 26, 2006	Totally Awesome teaser! I didn't think of mixing forward with backward spellings of the words. And then, the clues can help too much... It was tough for me, this morning. Keep up the terrific work.
coachpisco Jul 26, 2006	It was fun Sherlock. Thanks.
FatHead Jul 26, 2006	I saw the hidden words, and then it was easy!
ItsJustWildman Jul 26, 2006	Very good teaser!
unConfuseMe Jul 26, 2006	AHHH! my brain got teased!
Neek Jul 26, 2006	I always give up too early on these. Good teaser.
speedqueenkmw Jul 26, 2006	enjoyed it...didn't get itbut liked it anyway. great job
scallio Jul 26, 2006	GREAT TEASER!!! I loved this. Thanks.
luvdoritos706 Jul 26, 2006	that was really good.....i didnt get it....first time 4 everythin i guess
Qrystal Jul 26, 2006	That was enjoyable... I like it when things just "come to me." I saw the obvious words, thought aha those must mean something, so I copied and pasted the text into a word processor, bolded the time-related things, and the "sool" at the end made me think of "loose", so I kept reading backwards....... trockitogtreeidlakena yay for me! Glad I didn't look at the hint, it might've thrown me off! oh and I had so much fun, I solved the ones in the comments too.... smartyblondy, you're missing an m in secondymmonth! underherfeet, one of your five words isn't a 2 or 3 letter word!
syracuse945 Jul 26, 2006	so i ddn't get it... ah, well, gr8 tragedies happ'n all the tym... jk... neway, it was rili good... the only thing i got out of it was "sundial"... haha...
jcann Jul 26, 2006	I got it right away! It made my day! Thanks for the fun teaser!
jabdr Jul 26, 2006
RRAMMOHAN Jul 26, 2006	Great one! Couldnt guess how to go about cracking the code!
monkeygrl99 Jul 26, 2006	I heart this teaser!! LOL
FeaerFactorY666 Jul 26, 2006	Nice!
besamishuevos Jul 26, 2006	Has anyone ever played the game Mindtrap? If not, you should...but i digress....this teaser is a blatant ripoff of one of the puzzles in that game....WORD FOR WORD.... nice job indeed....you fooled all but one...
Swordoffury1392 Jul 26, 2006	besamishuevos, I don't see how my teaser could be in that game since this is a completely original teaser I came up with. Thanks everyone for the positive feedback!
Trishgal Jul 26, 2006	This was very hard for me . iam not very observant maybe i can learn
bluehawk Jul 27, 2006	Okay you got me again. Almost had it, but no cigar.
vlerma Jul 29, 2006	SOF that was great. I did see all of the references to time and I had thought about reading the teaser backwards. But of course, stupid me, I didn't reove the time pieces before my attempt. Great job. More please?
shawneeo Jul 31, 2006	Very good! Thanks, SoF! Hey, besamwhatever- Accusing SoF of plagiarism (that means copying someone else's work) is vicious and mean, and if you can't PROVE IT, you shouldn't say it, especially not in a public format. If you really had a case, you should PM SoF or the webmaster with your EVIDENCE. Also, has it ever occurred to you, besablahblah, that two people could come up with a teaser based on the same word or name without one copying the other? How very, very RUDE!
ztodd Jun 06, 2008	I don't get it. What do those time pieces have to do with loose bricks or the message being backwards?
Swordoffury1392 Jun 22, 2008	They don't. It's just part of the code to take out those time pieces.
dzym Oct 26, 2008	Took me less than a minute and no hint. CHA! ;D
mathisnice Jun 29, 2009	Added it to my favorites! Hard
auntiesis Jul 26, 2009	Finding the words was easy, but I never thought of discarding them, or reading the rest backwards. Great teaser. Love it.
patiencewithaP Jul 26, 2009	I didn't get it...my brain isn't going this early on a Sunday. Great job!
avonma Jul 26, 2009	The extra words were obvious to me, so I just took them out, when I realized they were all the same, but didn't mean anything. This one didn't take me very long to decipher. Thanks!
BBChibi Sep 19, 2009	This code is from the Deltora Quest series right??
WonderMess Dec 03, 2010	During a particularly boring winter, I learned to write backwards ... made it easy to read the code. ... who'd a thunk that writing backwards would ever be useful, (other than winning bar bets)
mandolin_summer Jul 26, 2012	Easy - I'd hate to live in a town with cops who couldn't figure this one out. (But fun, too!)
JQPublic Jul 26, 2012	I only got the time words.
jaycr Jul 26, 2012	I'd still be stuck in that jail cell.
crazy10man Jul 26, 2012	fun teaser. I thought the inclusion of four timepieces would have some bearing on the coded answer, like "meet me at 4 o'clock" but it was still clever.