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Unknown enigma; Not much experience. Need help to solve this
Topic Started: Jan 28 2015, 04:50 PM (197 Views)
Jordy
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My boss recently watched The Imitation Game and decided to put a challenge together for the office. He's certainly not experienced in this, but it's proven to be too difficult for me to solve. I was hoping somebody on this forum might have some tips or pointers. This is what my boss has sent out.

4 15 3 $
26 3 1 15 6
4 54 15
8 2 2 14 15 22 25 17 17
4 25 22 16 15

Any thoughts?
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Jordy
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I've figured out most of it, but I'm still a little stuck...

T E N $

U N D E R

T H E

_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _

T _ _ _ E

I don't know how the numbers correspond to the letters. I just saw "under the" and worked in the blanks. Now I'm stuck again.
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Jordy
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Got it.

TEN $
UNDER
THE
FOOSEBALL
TABLE

Thanks all!
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mosher
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I had gotten that far, but wondered about the following:

4 54 16 = T H E --> H = 54 (all values between 1 - 26, is this an error?)

8 2 2 14 15 22 25 17 17 = F O O S E B A L L --> L = 17
4 25 22 16 15 = T A B L E --> L = 16
'L' has two values? Is this a homophonic substitution?

I actually arrived at _OOS_EBALL but found no pattern word matching. I see now that "FOOSBALL" is spelled without the 'E".

Thanks for the cute challenge!
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