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Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle

An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts · By obnakwa

Can't decode chapter 59 [spoilers]

A topic by sblom created 21 days ago Views: 68 Replies: 2
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I'm having trouble figuring out how to organize things to find the poem to unlock chapter 59. (I'm working on the poem that begins "weoei/iyetlP".)

I've decoded the hint, and took it to mean start by line-breaking the poem on the slash marks. That seems unlikely the be right.

Since there are a prime number of characters, I tried taking every N characters since it's circular, knowing that for any N I would use all the letters on the disc. None of those seemed to be correct.

I'm confident that the task is simply to find the correct way to re-order the characters on the disc much like the columns in the previous chapter, but I'm striking out on specific approach.

I'd appreciate hints, starting with very gentle clues that might get me off on a productive path.

Thanks in advance!

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Do not focus on the primes.

Yes, breaking the lines by slashes is not the way. 

Now for the actual (hopefully subtle) hint: There is another common approach to line breaking of the poem.

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Unstuck! Thank you.

Strangely enough, but not really out of the ordinary for how puzzles go, I had made an observation related to what ended up working, but I had not gone down that path quite far enough yet. Appreciate the nudge!