Braingle Lite



Just Enough Time to Deliver the Message

Category:Cryptography
Submitted By:Swordoffury1392
Fun:**** (3.13)
Difficulty:*** (2.48)



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

Answer:

The message was "loose bricks in left wall." The message was put backward with words related to time in between.

This is how the message looks when separated:
ll watch awtfe clock lnisk sundial cirbe timer sool

If you take out watch, clock, sundial, and timer, this is what is left:
llawtfelniskcirbesool

Look at this backwards and this is what you have:
loose bricks in left wall

Auntie Bellum took out the bricks and escaped in the night. Then, she put the bricks back where they were.

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Comments on this teaser


Posted by froggygg06/25/05
Very good teaser. You almost got me but I figured it out just before I hit the answer! :lol:

Posted by Swordoffury139206/25/05
Hope you like my newest teaser! :D

Posted by AmyJo020606/26/05
you had me baffled! Good job... I really enjoyed this teaser

Posted by Riddlerman06/30/05
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. :D

Posted by Yoyobug0207/04/05
awesome teaser :) :) :)

Posted by ricangrl78707/07/05
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! :lol:

Posted by Frost125007/08/05
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. :wink:

Posted by lucylizzy07/09/05
yay i got it! well, i looked at the hint but that's understandable, right...?

Posted by Fester07/10/05
have to say that was an intriguing one. Nice.

Posted by hotbeaverchick07/12/05
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.

Posted by hellokitty59307/13/05
I knew that there was something to do with time, but I didn't now that the message was spelled backwards. Great Job! :wink:

Posted by Tiggr07/26/05
All I was seeing was words thats related to timepieces, I was clueless as to anything being stuck in there bacwards. :oops:

Posted by lycanthrope07/26/05
:oops: ditto tigger :lol:

Posted by TsunamiSurfer07/26/05
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

Posted by libradawn07/26/05
Excellent! :D

Posted by redneck_woman07/26/05
I need help just figuring out Frost1 250's comment! :roll: Really good teaser, Nancy Drew would be proud of you! :lol:

Posted by ilovegame07/26/05
That was a really awesome teaser! :D :D :D :) :D :) :wink: :D :) :wink:

Posted by StOoPs07/26/05
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. :oops: This one's definitely in my favorites! :P

Posted by bagogirl07/26/05
wow that was hard, I only got the time words :D

Posted by Swordoffury139207/26/05
Thanks everybody for the positive feedback. :D

Posted by riddlelover07/26/05
Man, that was hard. I wouldn't have gotten it in a million years. Keep em comin'. :wink:

Posted by angeleyes_707/26/05
Very good teaser!! :D :D However, I didn't get the answer right. :oops:

Posted by poison_ivy07/26/05
Very good teaser! :lol: And difficult! :D

Posted by poison_ivy07/26/05
Very good teaser! :lol: And difficult! :D

Posted by Ilovepink407/26/05
It was ok. :D :-?

Posted by joeschmo07/26/05
whoa :o that was too hard i gave up on it.... but it was good... :D

Posted by jabdr07/26/05
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.. :roll: :D

Posted by elu9307/27/05
All I could see was watch, clock, sundial, and time. :cry:

Posted by MTK_9007/27/05
I WAS BLINDED THE WHOLE TIME!

Posted by MTK_9007/27/05
I WAS BLIND THE WHOLE TIME!

Posted by loveshellylove08/04/05
8) Very good teaser!!! I loved it! 8)

Posted by smarty_blondy08/18/05
Ok mr. tough guy, lets see if you can decode this :lol: ! svafsecondymonthotweekseogcenturyenoyearsihtdecade bojhourtnellecxe a bit easier that yours, you must addmit :wink:

Posted by Swordoffury139208/19/05
Excellent job this one goes to my favs. Thanks smarty blondy (and everyone else)! Happy that you liked it. :D

Posted by FulanitoGM08/29/05
I know this is totally late, but I had to leave my bragging on here for posterity. :D 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! 8)

Posted by Winner460009/03/05
smartyblondy, you need another m...ymmonth :D

Posted by edgwood10/11/05
the puzzle was lots of fun thanks ilike reading the comments & have to agree with redneck woman.what was that??? :-?

Posted by trumpetsgirl10/27/05
This was fun :D even if i did get stuck on the obvious :oops:

Posted by nightowl1901/03/06
I didn't get it, but it was still fun!

Posted by teen_wiz02/18/06
THAT WUZ AWESOME! Great job! Definitely going in my faves! :D :D :D :D 8) :D :D :D :D

Posted by SPUTNIK202/20/06
FUN! FUN! FUN! :D :lol: :lol: :D 8)

Posted by GebbieRose06/07/06
Easy, but as usual, clever & nicely done. :)

Posted by danielzerman06/20/06
easy :( but good :D

Posted by OldChinaHand07/26/06
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. 8)

Posted by Badger07/26/06
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! :D :lol:

Posted by shawneeo07/26/06
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! :laugh: :D

Posted by underherfeet07/26/06
revelcbigtonsondabfibtaifllatall,,,with 2 and 3 letter words taken out, total 5, rest is my answer?

Posted by bradon18200107/26/06
This was interesting.Would have to say good teaser, because it sure stumped me. :o

Posted by kcheer249307/26/06
I almost got It, I was on to something, But then just gave up, Good Job

Posted by locutus13ds07/26/06
I saw the words, but couldn't figure it out. Time to hang it up! :roll:

Posted by kman61307/26/06
Too hard for me, but I had a great time trying to figure it out before reading the answer...

Posted by Pizzazz2u07/26/06
Totally Awesome teaser! I didn't think of mixing forward with backward spellings of the words. And then, the clues can help too much... :P It was tough for me, this morning. Keep up the terrific work.

Posted by coachpisco07/26/06
It was fun Sherlock. Thanks. :)

Posted by FatHead07/26/06
I saw the hidden words, and then it was easy!

Posted by ItsJustWildman07/26/06
Very good teaser! :D :D

Posted by unConfuseMe07/26/06
:x AHHH! my brain got teased! :x

Posted by Neek07/26/06
I always give up too early on these. Good teaser.

Posted by speedqueenkmw07/26/06
enjoyed it...didn't get itbut liked it anyway. great job

Posted by scallio07/26/06
GREAT TEASER!!! I loved this. Thanks. :D

Posted by luvdoritos70607/26/06
that was really good.....i didnt get it....first time 4 everythin i guess

Posted by Qrystal07/26/06
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!

Posted by syracuse94507/26/06
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... :wink:

Posted by jcann07/26/06
I got it right away! It made my day! Thanks for the fun teaser! :P

Posted by jabdr07/26/06
8) 8) :roll:

Posted by RRAMMOHAN07/26/06
Great one! Couldnt guess how to go about cracking the code! :cry:

Posted by monkeygrl9907/26/06
I heart this teaser!! LOL

Posted by FeaerFactorY66607/26/06
Nice!

Posted by besamishuevos07/26/06
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...

Posted by Swordoffury139207/26/06
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! :D

Posted by Trishgal07/26/06
This was very hard for me . :o iam not very observant :cry: maybe i can learn :-?

Posted by bluehawk07/27/06
:lol: Okay you got me again. Almost had it, but no cigar. :lol: :wink: 8)

Posted by vlerma07/29/06
:) 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? :wink:

Posted by shawneeo07/31/06
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!

Posted by ztodd06/06/08
I don't get it. What do those time pieces have to do with loose bricks or the message being backwards?

Posted by Swordoffury139206/22/08
They don't. It's just part of the code to take out those time pieces. :)

Posted by dzym10/26/08
Took me less than a minute and no hint. CHA! ;D

Posted by mathisnice06/29/09
Added it to my favorites! :D Hard :oops:

Posted by auntiesis07/26/09
Finding the words was easy, but I never thought of discarding them, or reading the rest backwards. Great teaser. Love it.

Posted by patiencewithaP07/26/09
I didn't get it...my brain isn't going this early on a Sunday. Great job! :D

Posted by avonma07/26/09
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. :D Thanks! :lol:

Posted by BBChibi09/19/09
This code is from the Deltora Quest series right??

Posted by WonderMess12/03/10
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) :)

Posted by mandolin_summer07/26/12
Easy - I'd hate to live in a town with cops who couldn't figure this one out. (But fun, too!)

Posted by JQPublic07/26/12
I only got the time words. :oops:

Posted by jaycr07/26/12
I'd still be stuck in that jail cell. :-?

Posted by crazy10man07/26/12
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.




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