You are voyaging on a tour of the Pacific. On the last day of your travels, this message, wrapped up in a bottle, drifts up to your ship.
Find the sum of all the numbers that occur in this sentence.
As an explicit example, if the number three and twenty-six are present in the sentence, one would input .
Hint: If the picture does not immediately give you a hint, it probably will not give you one at all. All is revealed in the solution.
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The hint suggests that if the gold bug reminds you of nothing, you will never solve the puzzle. I did not recognize it, but by searching the internet, I figured out what it symbolized.
Note the skull in the Golden Bug.
The easiest way to solve this is to Google "gold bug cipher" and see what comes up.
So wikipedia has a list of classic ciphers. I was browsing through these in an attempt to find a cipher related somehow to bugs. I recently watched The Imitation Game and researched the Book Cipher. After getting bored, I started reading about the Beale Ciphers. And just by chance, I got the clue I needed.
"Edgar Allan Poe has sometimes been suggested to be the real author of the pamphlet. He had an interest in cryptography and used it as a plot device in several of his works, most notably his short story "The Gold-Bug." "
That Gold Bug there got mixed with a creepy looking skull... Oh hey, Poe is known for being really creepy! :D Let's research this short story that so happens to be called "The Gold Bug"!
So basically, the story about this Gold Bug (duh) which looks like a skull (coincidence much?), which bit some guy and he went cray cray blah blah blahh.... Then at some point some guy found this encrypted message then blah and stuff the end everyone wins maybe idk?
So this is the guy's encrypted message...
53‡‡†305))6 ;4826)4‡.)4‡);806 ;48†8 ¶60))85;;]8 ;:‡ 8†83(88)5 †;46(;88 96 ?;8) ‡(;485);5 †2: ‡(;4956 2(5 —4)8 ¶8 ;4069285);)6†8)4‡‡;1(‡9;48081;8:8‡ 1;48†85;4)485†528806 81(‡9;48;(88;4 (‡?34;48)4‡;161;:188;‡?;
Which translates to:
A good glass in the bishop's hostel in the devil's seat twenty-one degrees and thirteen minutes northeast and by north main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the left eye of the death's-head a bee line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out.
Kay there's 21... 13... 7... 50... so 21+13+7+50 is... 91! AHA THATS THE ANSWER!
Wat
so 13 and 7 is 20... 20 and 50 is 70... 91! Yeah um... what?
Wait maybe this guy (guy referring to the guy who made this puzzle) changed some numbers, let's compare the 2 messages.
53‡‡†305))6 ;4826)4‡.)4‡);806 ;48†8 ¶60))85; >>> ;]8 ;: <<< ‡ 8†83(88)5 †;46(;88 96 ?;8) ‡(;485);5 †2: ‡(;4956 2(5 —4)8 ¶8 ;4069285);)6†8)4‡‡;1(‡9;48081;8:8‡ 1;48†85;4)485†528806 81(‡9;48;(88;4 (‡?34;48)4‡;161;:188;‡?;
53‡‡†305))6 ;4826)4‡.)4‡);806 ;48†8 ¶60))85; >>> 1‡(;: <<< ‡ 8†83(88)5 †;46(;88 96 *?;8) ‡(;485);5 †2: ‡(;4956 2(5 -4)8 ¶8 ;4069285);)6†8)4‡‡;1(‡9;48081;8:8‡ 1;48†85;4)485†528806 81(‡9;48;(88;4 (‡?34;48)4‡;161;:188;‡?;
I have bolded (And singled out) a noticeable difference. This is the one change that was made. Translating, we get:
A GOOD GLASS IN THE BISHOPS HOSTEL IN THE DEVILS SEAT FORTY ONE DEGREES AND THIRTEEN MINUTES NORTHEAST AND BY NORTH MAIN BRANCH SEVEN TH LIMB EAST SIDE SHOOT FROM THE LEFT EYE OF THE DEATHS HEAD A BEE LINE FROM THE TREE THROUGH THE SHOT FIFTY FEET OUT
Our new numbers are: 41, 13, 7, 50; As opposed to the numbers in the original message: 21, 13, 7, 50.
Adding 20 to the previous answer 91 we get 1 1 1 .