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Mr. Weft is kidnapped. He is in a locked room. The door is locked by a 4-symbol code.
His kidnapper said, "I am an evil kidnapper. But I LOVE riddles, puzzles... so I'll give you one. The door is locked by code, as you well know. Take this letter with a small riddle. From this riddle you can get a door-code and get out. But be quick, after 3 days I'll change the code, so you can't get out anymore. Start the riddle!"
The letter reads:
The first letter, which you get today: "Cambridge's alleys stop everyone."
Weft thought HARD. But he can't find an answer.
Help him!
His kidnapper said, "I am an evil kidnapper. But I LOVE riddles, puzzles... so I'll give you one. The door is locked by code, as you well know. Take this letter with a small riddle. From this riddle you can get a door-code and get out. But be quick, after 3 days I'll change the code, so you can't get out anymore. Start the riddle!"
The letter reads:
The first letter, which you get today: "Cambridge's alleys stop everyone."
Weft thought HARD. But he can't find an answer.
Help him!
Hint
Read this teaser again and again... concentrate on one of words.... the " symbols in the letter are also important...Answer
CASETHE FIRST LETTER... the letter must be understood in another way... Take the first letters. The "symbols" show where to start and where to end.
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cool story, dumb kidnapper.
I got it right, but I didn't quite get it.
Good one. Took me a while - especially after the hint said to read over. So, I read it over and over and over.....And finally - got it right!
I don't understand this at all! I'm so confused...
just kidding i get it now!!!!
This teaser s just made in one year and even after I corrected it many times before I paste in on BRAINGLE. +1 ?
Decrypt smile crypto and knew my question.
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not bad.
This one was ok, it was one of the harder ones though
hard but still fun for me. Nice work, Nice teaser
Wonderful teaser, absolutely wonderful. Keep up the great work!
I was a bit lost.
-First, I thought we were looking for symbols rather than letters. "4-symbol code"
-Second, I thought he would get a different riddle each day and that was the first of the set (one today and one more each of the following 3 days) "The first letter, which you get today...". This sentence implies more letters are coming.
-So, I mistakenly believed the CASE symbol was the first of the four digits and was trying to determine what the next 3 digit symbols could possibly be. I also couldn't determine was a case symbol was exactly.
Sorry... not trying to be rude, but thought this teaser could have been worded a bit more clearly.
Fun story though!
-First, I thought we were looking for symbols rather than letters. "4-symbol code"
-Second, I thought he would get a different riddle each day and that was the first of the set (one today and one more each of the following 3 days) "The first letter, which you get today...". This sentence implies more letters are coming.
-So, I mistakenly believed the CASE symbol was the first of the four digits and was trying to determine what the next 3 digit symbols could possibly be. I also couldn't determine was a case symbol was exactly.
Sorry... not trying to be rude, but thought this teaser could have been worded a bit more clearly.
Fun story though!
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