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04 Music file analysis
From time to time, there is also something for the ears in the listing. In such media, too, coordinates and further information can be concealed in an outrageously wide variety of ways. The easiest way is in the metadata, which can be found in most music players, in Windows via the file explorer...
File analysis - Pictures, Music, Videos145 March 31, 2021 -
03 Technical picture hiding places
Besides the purely optical variants, a lot of nastiness can be done with digital images in a technical way. In geocaching mysteries, I find computerised steganography the worst. As nice as it is to be able to hide almost any imaginable thing in pictures invisibly and almost uncrackable with...
File analysis - Pictures, Music, Videos160 March 31, 2021 -
02 Optical game of hide and seek
The simplest way to hide additional information in an image is to simply write it on it in a clearly visible way. If the image has a very high resolution and is therefore displayed at a very small size on the screen, such labelling can be almost invisible, depending on the background. Very large...
File analysis - Pictures, Music, Videos141 March 31, 2021 -
02 Keyboards
Sometimes you have a jumble of numbers or characters in front of you as a puzzle, which can be translated into plain text using keyboards. Keyboard shifts and position A variant of the keyboard shifts usually works with a standard QWERZ keyboard - i.e. the one we usually have under our...
Language and writing162 March 31, 2021 -
05 Esoteric Programming Languages
No, we are not leaving the realm of logic now and entering our inner, spiritual realm of knowledge. Esoteric programming languages might be a little better titled as "exotic" and describe programming languages that were not created for practical use, but for demonstration purposes, as academic...
Other204 March 31, 2021 -
03 Colours
Many mysteries encode the coordinates with the help of colours. This also has the advantage of making the listing pretty colourful ;-) Resistance colour code One of the most frequently encountered is the resistance colour code. Mostly without, but sometimes with calculation of the current...
Other1004 March 31, 2021 -
01 Barcodes
We all know bar codes. For several decades now, the bar codes have been emblazoned on all goods to reveal to the beeping cash register exactly what wants to be bought. With the spread of smartphones, we got another barcode in our everyday lives in the form of the square, black-and-white data matrix...
Other66 March 30, 2021 -
01 Monoalphabetic substitution
Monoalphabetic substitution means an encryption in which each letter or group of letters is replaced by exactly one letter, group of letters or character. Thus, there is exactly one key alphabet. The advantage here is the simplicity of encryption and decryption. The disadvantage in the...
Encryptions604 March 30, 2021 -
02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Playfair Cipher?
The entered text is automatically decrypted or encrypted according to the key and modification. The modification is Replace J with IReplace C with KReplace W with VV
Playfair Cipher62 March 30, 2021 -
01 Manually decrypt ciphertexts
Simple, monoalphabetic ciphers, where each letter of the alphabet is simply assigned a different letter, character or string of numbers, can be deciphered in a relatively short time using a piece of paper, a table of letter frequencies for the language in question, and a little time. As a...
Decrypt175 March 30, 2021 -
06 Painting numbers
After all, in mysteries we are always looking for one thing: the digits or numbers that tell us the GPS coordinates. Thanks to this circumstance, an almost unbelievable number of variants have developed over the course of time to represent numbers. This blog post is about what I consider to be a...
Numbers, numbers, numbers98 March 30, 2021 -
04 Binary, octal and hexadecimal numbers
"There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary code and those who don't." Another, much better known, place value system is the binary system. A place value system with a base of two. There are only two states, zero and one, on or off, dot or dash, there or gone, true or false....
Numbers, numbers, numbers128 March 30, 2021 -
03 Number systems
But what if we leave the pure numbers and number words we know and move into other place value systems? If we no longer count to 10 as in our decimal system (which does not happen to harmonise with the number of our fingers), but perhaps to twenty, as in the vigesimal system. Or to sixty, as in the...
Numbers, numbers, numbers162 March 30, 2021 -
02 Foreign languages
This section thus begins with a topic which would also have fitted perfectly into the section on "Language and Writing". Numbers can be nicely hidden by representing them in foreign languages. One, two, three we will all get freely translated, but what about aon, M?t trà or hai,...
Numbers, numbers, numbers67 March 30, 2021 -
01 Introduction
Numbers are usually what we are looking for. Coordinates. A pair, north and east. Sometimes also a bearing, although here you still need a point from which to take a bearing. Usually this is the coordinate where the listing was placed. If a coordinate is hidden, then either in its entirety and...
Numbers, numbers, numbers68 March 30, 2021 -
02 Geocaching-specific cryptanalysis
Or also: And what do I do with this now??? You've found the puzzle and are now confused by a mountain of numbers, letters, pictures, signs or the like? Again, perhaps this attempt to present in a structured way what what I have found could be will help. Please do not take it amiss if I do not...
The analysis to start with433 March 30, 2021 -
01 What are Babylonian Numbers?
Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia The Babylonians calculated in a number system with the base 60 (sexagesimal system). That means that the place values are ascending from right to left: 600 (1), 601 (60), 602 (3600), 603 (216.000) and so on. Multiplying the digits by the place value gives...
Babylonian numbers244 March 28, 2021 -
01 Which functions are provided for circle number pi (π=3.1415926…)?
The function package "Pi" provides functions for calculating numbers from the decimal places of the irrational number Pi - circular number. n-th decimal DigitRangeSearch Occurrence
Circle Number Pi34 March 28, 2021 -
01 Which functions are provided for Golden ratio Phi (Φ=1.6180339…)?
The function package "Φ" provides functions for calculating numbers from the decimal places of the irrational number Phi - Golden Section. n-th decimal digitRangeSearch Occurrence
Golden ratio Phi32 March 28, 2021 -
04 What calculations take place at moonrise/moonset?
The following information is required for entry: LocationDateTime zone The output will then show: RiseTransit/culminationSet
Astronomy86 March 28, 2021
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