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challenge 9B

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    Sylveon
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    More than 20% of my plaintext decrypt letters make sense, however, when i submit it, I get 0%. Could you please check there is no bug or glitch. Thank you!

    This is a feature, not a bug. The marking algorithm has a threshold (which I can;t remember for the moment) below which it truncates marks to 0 and refuses to give feedback even when the feedback is switched on. This is to discourage attempts to fish the solution out of the database a character at a time. It has the additional benefit of causing mayhem at this stage in the competition. Ho ho ho. Harry

    #114308
    decrypting_donkey
    Participant

    Surely its impossible the key is in christmas carol. I tried every word in it and none worked. is it a combo of words?

    #114307
    decrypting_donkey
    Participant

    I have a keyword that correctly decrypts part of the text but the rest is gibberish. Is this a trick you’re doing or is my keyword wrong?

    Strange isn’t it? Harry

    #114369
    F6EXB_the_frenchy
    Participant

    @person1
    #114308

    Impossible n’est pas français. Unless I am mistaken, I count this word nine times throughout the entire work.

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