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Posted November 10, 2011
On the last day of the weekend, we have two different contests for you all, giving you a final chance to win big before we resume our regular and humdrum week tomorrow.

For the brainy among you, we have a cryptogram. Decipher the hidden meaning behind the text below, send the full plain text (and an explanation how you deciphered it!) to us with the subject line, "GOG.com 2011 Cryptogram Contest". From all of the correct entries, we'll pull one lucky winner who gets 10 free $5.99 or $9.99 GOG.com games.

AF IG BY YX RC PM QB FC QC PF ZM CB PQ PT QE UP TP QP
UC NM US GT TI TS RC PM QB FC QC FC TV RC ID TS PG YZ TP QP
ST UY JG BL XU HU EK OY ZU EO LO RC TQ PG DL CE ZU BQ IO XY
ZS CE FO HP JT TV IX QB QC UZ NT MQ GP XE ZM XA OP TV

IB DB IL YS FO EY OP NM UA TV DI GR AM VM
FP CD QI CB RH MH ZL FC OU TS TX GI OX PS HT
TR HT ZP ED QC GI CB RC PM QP RH QE CB EY QB PF RD XQ
PQ TQ XQ QP OF ZS HC RI ZH FO DE BZ IB RG BE GT

If you're feeling artsy instead, we have an alternative for you. It's coming up on the holiday season, and we'd like you to put on your advertiser hats. Make us an outdoor ad that you think would be an awesome GOG.com holiday advertisement. Whether you want to make a billboard by the side of the road, a clever bench, a bus stop ad, or even silkscreen an entire bus with an awesome GOG.com advertisement, let's see what you think this year's GOG.com holidays should be about. Email your best GOG.com advertisement to [url=mailto:contest@gog.com?subject=GOG.com 2011 Advertisement]contest@gog.com[/url] with the subject line "GOG.com 2011 Advertisement" to enter. We will select some of our favorites from the entries and each winner will get 5 free $5.99 or $9.99 games from our catalog.

Since both of these contests represent something a little harder than the previous ones, we'll give you until 6.59 EST on Tuesday (15.11.11) to come up with your entry. We'll announce all of our contest winners on Wednesday, so keep tuned.

Put on those thinking caps, and let's see what you've got!
Posted November 14, 2011
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Ryusui: What. The. Hell.

#2 can't be right. If it's a Playfair cipher, then both I and J have to be in the key matrix because they appear in the cipher - it's W that's missing from the ciphertext.
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TheEnigmaticT: Lbh zvtug guvax gung, ohg gurer'f nabgure cbffvovyvgl.

>.>
Don't talk and chew at the same time.
Posted November 14, 2011
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Ryusui: What. The. Hell.

#2 can't be right. If it's a Playfair cipher, then both I and J have to be in the key matrix because they appear in the cipher - it's W that's missing from the ciphertext.
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TheEnigmaticT: Lbh zvtug guvax gung, ohg gurer'f nabgure cbffvovyvgl.

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Bgure cbffvovyvgl? V'z ybfg! =(
Posted November 14, 2011
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Ryusui: What. The. Hell.

#2 can't be right. If it's a Playfair cipher, then both I and J have to be in the key matrix because they appear in the cipher - it's W that's missing from the ciphertext.
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TheEnigmaticT: Lbh zvtug guvax gung, ohg gurer'f nabgure cbffvovyvgl.

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Good Old Caesar.
Posted November 14, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: Lbh zvtug guvax gung, ohg gurer'f nabgure cbffvovyvgl.

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Do I get a loser's consolation cookie at the end if I was able to figure out what this means? I wish the main cryptogram was this easy.
Posted November 14, 2011
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Ryusui: What. The. Hell.

#2 can't be right. If it's a Playfair cipher, then both I and J have to be in the key matrix because they appear in the cipher - it's W that's missing from the ciphertext.
Could be that the J was replaced in the plaintext (ie, typo, whatnot), not as part of the encryption process.
Posted November 14, 2011
Okay, the clue is making my brain melt.

TG = BZ and OM = GT, right? If T and G are on the same row or column, that would mean B, Z, O, and M would be on the same row/column as them, too - that's six characters on a five-character line. And if they're not, then there's only one pair that TG/GT could swap to, whether encrypting or decrypting.

Have I gone completely insane here and there's something I'm missing?
Posted November 14, 2011
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Ryusui: Okay, the clue is making my brain melt.

TG = BZ and OM = GT, right? If T and G are on the same row or column, that would mean B, Z, O, and M would be on the same row/column as them, too - that's six characters on a five-character line. And if they're not, then there's only one pair that TG/GT could swap to, whether encrypting or decrypting.

Have I gone completely insane here and there's something I'm missing?
My thoughts exactly. I am getting nowhere with this! Since the clues came out I feel like my progress is going backwards...
Posted November 14, 2011
I have to congratulate whoever successfully dismantled this one. Even if it's not much more than a mutant Sudoku, it's heavily puzzling, and apparently requires some good thinking.
I gave up good while ago, but it's fun to observe that not everyone has.
And I like the "TI TS" part :)
Posted November 14, 2011
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Ryusui: Okay, the clue is making my brain melt.

TG = BZ and OM = GT, right? If T and G are on the same row or column, that would mean B, Z, O, and M would be on the same row/column as them, too - that's six characters on a five-character line. And if they're not, then there's only one pair that TG/GT could swap to, whether encrypting or decrypting.

Have I gone completely insane here and there's something I'm missing?
Might be a two-square cipher, then.
Post edited November 14, 2011 by Whitecroc
Posted November 14, 2011
OK. I've just returned from work and all went well... I've got solution. :)
Posted November 14, 2011
Okay. I thought myself clever, now I feel stupid to the max. I bought around 100 games from you, and this is what I get: a totally annihillated self-esteem. =( Thanks, Gog!
*goes to a corner and cries
Posted November 14, 2011
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Tsugirai: *goes to a corner and cries
Move over, will ya ;)
Posted November 14, 2011
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Ryusui: TG = BZ and OM = GT, right? If T and G are on the same row or column, that would mean B, Z, O, and M would be on the same row/column as them, too - that's six characters on a five-character line. And if they're not, then there's only one pair that TG/GT could swap to, whether encrypting or decrypting.
Yeah, the TG = BZ and OM = GT part has me stumped as well.
Posted November 14, 2011
Also stuck on the TG = BZ and OM = GT parts. Any hints on that, given the strict rules that this system should be using?
Posted November 14, 2011
Sigh, again, no reply from bot - soooo people are sending so many answers today? o.o
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