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Can you help? I have been all over trying to decode this thing and nothing I’ve tried is making sense. I have googled “base case,” and get varying information that seems useless or so esoteric that it’s beyond me. I’ve tried a variety of binary code translators.
Please PM me if you think you can point me in the right direction to solve this cache…
GC1P72Y
Am I going to have to sit with one of those binary charts and do this by hand? I never know where to start and end with these strings.
If so, I guess that’s what I’ll be doing for some of the day. Thanks.Piggybacking on your request for help. I am also trying to solve a different binary puzzle (don’t have the GC number handy).
Am I going to have to sit with one of those binary charts and do this by hand? I never know where to start and end with these strings.
That is what I figured I would have to do, and it is a long process. If there is another way, please share. Thanks.
I have used online translators for other puzzles, but they don’t seem to work for this one. I really struggle to understand when a string begins and ends when they’re all 0s and 1s.
Hint from the cache owner?
All it says is BIN fives.
I almost think this one could be a 5 difficulty, cause it seems like it requires special knowledge to understand. If I knew how to discern where the numbers break, I’d be happy to sit and hand decrypt it. Not that different than S4, and I managed that!
Anything I google to try and gain some insight seems to require a basic knowledge of coding. I don’t know if I’m converting to ACSII, hexidecimal or what! I’ve tried them all.
I don’t know if this matters, but do you have to split the code up in groups of five.
Trekkin’ has figured that part out. I gave up and decided to let him tackle this one. I’ve solved all but two of our puzzle solves thus far. He can take a turn, LOL.
We can’t seem to find how to match these groupings into anything meaningful, though. Seems like everything is based on 8s and such. He figures the first word is four letters, and the middle two are the same letter. So he’s made better strides than I!
What did the cache owner say when you contacted them with questions on the puzzle?
On the Left Side of the Road...Nothing yet, Michael, but I told emailed him again and told him Trekkin’ has figured it out. He’s going through the decoding process, but his first efforts were making sense, so I think he’s got it!
Glad one of our left brains was working today. He cracked the code, then wanted me to do the dirty work. Told him, nope, you get the pleasure for a change, LOL.
Just a note to all Coulee Region cachers. The only hints we’ll share are those that were suggested here, which Trekkin’ figured out.
Course, we have to finish and then try and find it, so we’re not celebrating yet. It’s happened before that I’ve solved something, it made sense, but it didn’t check out. This one is such that geochecker wouldn’t work to confirm our solve, either. We’ll have to head out with blind faith here.
I’ll only help if you write my name on the log for the ftf :>
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
I think he’s got it!
8)
On the Left Side of the Road...@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
All it says is BIN fives.
I almost think this one could be a 5 difficulty, cause it seems like it requires special knowledge to understand. If I knew how to discern where the numbers break, I’d be happy to sit and hand decrypt it. Not that different than S4, and I managed that!
Anything I google to try and gain some insight seems to require a basic knowledge of coding. I don’t know if I’m converting to ACSII, hexidecimal or what! I’ve tried them all.
What I meant was what did the cache owner say when you asked for a clue.
Looks like you have it figured out anyway, so no matter. This isn’t a 5 difficulty though. 4 is pushing it, other than the tedium of hand decoding the whole thing.Yeah, you’re right about the difficulty. Once Trekkin’ got it, it was just busy work. There will be a payback cache of some sort placed soon, now that we get how this stuff works!
It was actually somewhat embarrassing where he found the information he needed to come up with this one. But to save our psyches, we aren’t telling, LOL.
Perhaps after you decode the binary, you get another embedded code?
@amita17 wrote:
Piggybacking on your request for help. I am also trying to solve a different binary puzzle (don’t have the GC number handy).
Am I going to have to sit with one of those binary charts and do this by hand? I never know where to start and end with these strings.
That is what I figured I would have to do, and it is a long process. If there is another way, please share. Thanks.[/quote
So, what’s the GC # Curious as to which one…..
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