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Some Mars
Week 15
You have intercepted the following message - you don't know anything about it, other than the fact it has been typed on a machine containing only the following characters:
- Lowercase letters: a-z
- Digits: 0-9
- Space
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Can you decode the message? A reminder, if you are completely stuck, hints will be released after 24 hours :)
Hints
Hints will be released at the start of each of the following days - e.g. the start of day 3 is 48 hours after the challenge starts
| Release Day | Hint |
|---|---|
| 2 | Look at how many unique symbols are used in the message |
| 3 | Consider the number of consecutive spaces - are they always the same? |
| 4 | The challenge name is an anagram of a famous inventor related to this challenge - his short-form of his first name is used (3 letters), while his last name is 5 letters. If you figure this out, you should know how the message has been encoded |
| 6 | Sam Morse is the hidden name - the message is Morse code, but using the Sun for dots and the snowflake for dashes |
| 7 | You can search "Morse code dictionary/array github" for example online to easily copy and paste an existing mapping between letters/numbers and their Morse code equivalent |
| 8 |