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  1. The girl (lady? sorry) in front of me in the signing line was a 17th sharder and got a few juicy comments written in the front of her books. If/when you show up here please can you post them?
  2. That was excellent. First time I've ever been to a signing. I loved the Jasnah reading and the The Silence Divine reading.
  3. You think he might have left a clue in a book in a physical location, not that the clue is printed in every book? Part of the shard hunt?
  4. Someone got a plaintext copy of the book they could send me? Is that legal if I have the hard book? If not, could someone run something this perl to find words that are palindromes? if ( $str == reverse($str) ) { print "PALINDROME!\n"; } If I can get a plaintext copy of the book I could write some more complicated perl to parse out all the keteks.
  5. Nice find Brybry. Might we use an html copy of the ebook to search for more keteks of the form "a b c X c b a" using Python/Perl? I'd help but I only have a hardcopy of the book Maybe then we could find one that matched our palindrome number sequence in some way.
  6. That's a REALLY good spot. Does that make 9 'I' or 'A'?
  7. I re-interleaved the two floorboard 17 texts to see if it helped or provided a hidden message. Nope :*( The remainder from the long one was: ecraftaweapon I'm grasping at straws now I think.
  8. I had considered that if we actually have two interleaved codes here then the first two letters would be capitals since all of the other decoded passages start with capitals. I didn't get any further than that. If you want to delve deeper, use this: http://regexr.com?38ent You can paste in your sentence and it will delete everything except the capitals. Are we sure we've got all the clues? Is there any place where a character reads out part of the diagram?
  9. Letter pairs 'ch' or 'sh' or 'th'? Some kind of phonetic spelling of words shortening certain parts? What was that mention of his funny spellling of 'Parshendi' that one of the characters mentioned? Was it Shallan? There were three different words that made no sense together but when combined they reasoned he meant Parshendi. Is that a clue? I don't have my book with me to look it up. The length of those three words when uncombined might be much greater than when concatenated to Parshendi. This could make up our difference in lengths from the floorboard 17 texts. Edit: Oooo! The second one has the word Parshendi in it and it's the shorter of the two floorboard 17 quotes. If we substitute parshendi for that three word concatenation, do the lengths of the two segments match up!?! If so, that would tell us that the cipertext for all letters is the same length. Also, can we assume that the ciphertext for a capital is different to a lower case since they're showing up? Or do we try to find a frequently occuring piece of ciphertext which when prefixing another letter makes it into a capital? Since there's no punctuation they're essential to sentence structure and we know they're there. EDIT2: That makes sense. I agree. I think the translation for non-English books is a big clue.
  10. Peter has previously confirmed that this was intentional not a typo. Read it in one of the Tor pre-release material discussions.
  11. I'm still super suspicious of this. Why aren't they the same length? It MUST tell us something about the way the characters are arranged from number format. It does tell us that they're not all pairs like we've assumed in places. ie you can't just break the decimal numbers up into pairs then use them as letters.
  12. Satsuoni, I'll put a link to the first page of this thread, do you think you could update your first post with all the clues from page 2 of the discussion so anyone coming here from Reddit has all the facts? EDIT: /r/crypto is the wrong place for it so I've put it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/1zpgme/help_with_code_from_brandon_sandersons_newest/ If the first post gets updated with everything we think we know I'll remove the epigraphs from the Reddit post to make it clearer. Have I left anything out that would be useful for them to know? I've asked for clues rather than a solution, they might be able to tell us what kind of clue to look for in the book.
  13. Ok I'll draft a post to ask them. I don't think we'll get a solution from them but they might be able to give us a list of clues, tools to try, be able to tell us something at least.
  14. How badly do we want to know? Should we ask on reddit.com/r/crypto or would that spoil the fun? EDIT: That probably wouldn't help actually. I'd be willing to bet money that the solution requires knowledge of the book or to find a clue in it.
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