TEXT UN: 333

[holeful]

I've been thinking about puzzles lately. They can be good team building activities! So here's one to work on;
110020011102011’103 001 033032011-103110033102121 020033111103011 021032 113020021003020 011112011102121110020021032013 021103 121011030030033113. 121011030030033113 113001030030103, 121011030030033113 010033033102103, 121011030030033113 012111102032021110111102011. 113020001110 003033030033102 001102011 110020011 103110001021102103?

Hints;
1: Simplify
2:

[PS: If you feel like your character would be able to solve this but you personally cannot or will not do math, you can dm me or hit me on discord for a hint/the answer! Otherwise please just bully Fukuda for this horseshit.]

Comments

un: mistynight

[hellborne]

This is not a teambuilding exercise, this is torture.

[holeful]

Haha, well, it's my first attempt at making one!

text un: cainknightley

[himbosupreme]

Oh that's a cool looking picture! Did you draw that yourself?

(❁´◡`❁)

[holeful]

Hm? There's not any pictures. Just numbers and equations.

[text] UN: tamamori

[fuckdogramagra]

I
think something went wrong.

[ Tama's a liberal arts student from a horror VN set in 1922, and this is the scariest thing he has ever seen in his entire life. ]

[holeful]

What do you mean? Did the answer not come out right? I didn't have anyone else check it for me before I posted but I did double check my work...

text; un: rider

[kaientai]

I get it. The joke is that this doesn't mean anything right?

[holeful]

Well that wouldn't be a very good puzzle, would it? I wouldn't waste everyone's time like that.

un: yharaskrik

[psionicmolotov]

[ He actually knows mathematics to some degree but this? This still sucks. What kind of terrible bullshit have humans done to calculus. ]

What practical use does this have exactly

[holeful]

[Technically only the one part of this is calculus.]

Like I said! You can work on it with someone else as a team building activity! But besides that I guess it's just for fun.
[Because this is definitely fun and not Math.]

text; un: minakami

[watermemory]

I see! I make no promises but I will do my best!

[Let him just get scratch paper for the hints and...]

[..........]

I don't see.
How does that relate to this?

[ARGs weren't invented in 1922. And even then. He's a lit student he doesn't go here.]

you knew i had to do this

[fuckdogramagra]

If you figured something out then tell me and we're partners now.

[holeful]

You mean the hints? If you put them together it should tell you how to decode the main puzzle.

[HE'S JUST JAZZED SOMEONE MADE ANY PROGRESS AT ALL.]

text; un: gulfan

[protectorofkouka]

I've never seen a mathematics puzzle like this before. It's intriguing.

[But also terrifying.]

[holeful]

I tried not to make it too difficult but it seems like I might have overshot it a little.

text; un: lyra

[sleepinglyra]

A team building exercise on futility you mean.

I'll grant you that hiding the key to a cipher in a mathematics equations is clever but no language consists of only 3 letters.




On the off chance I'm mistaken and the message is in English, 001 is a or i and 103 has to be a letter that is followed by an apostrophe. t or s would be the most likely ones except people shorten too many words these days to easily narrow it down.

[holeful]

Haha, you say it's futile even though you're well on your way to solving it!

Of course no language has only three letters, that's why it's not a direct single numeral to letter cipher. That would be too easy. Like you've deduced, each three digit grouping corresponds to a letter. You could try to work it out like it's a random replacement cipher, but it's not random and the hints would tell you how exactly to decode it.

text, un: gohan

[harimaya]

(If this is a team building exercise then--)

Have you ever been on a team?

[holeful]

[HIZEN!!!!!]








Sort of?

Text; un: bbhood

[appleforyou]

[I’m 14 years old and what is this]

Wow so you’re just a tremendous nerd, huh?

[holeful]

[High school math, get ready, 14 year old.]

Haha, well, I guess so? That's what people tell me.

text; un: stitches

[deadtective]

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....................,/¯../
.................../..../
............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸
........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\
........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...')
.........\.................'...../
..........''...\.......... _.·´
............\..............(
..............\.............\...

[the maximum amount of effort Hazel's willing to put into this is copying and pasting this gorgeous spectacle of online disdain. sorry not sorry!]

[holeful]

[Obsessed with this being their first interraction.]

Oh, ASCII art! Classic!

text; un: fushiguro

[mahoraga]

[ deciding if he wants to try ... he's tired and it could be a ton of effort, but he's also a nerd and it could be fun too. ]

Anyone solve it yet?

[holeful]

Not yet! A few people are getting close though.

[So it might be hard but also maybe you could be the first??]

un: n-jima

[evoked]

Looking at this makes me tired.

[holeful]

Haha, is it all the numbers?

text; un: swordsss

[swordhardy]

The answer ... is 1.

[holeful]

[Sir.]

The answer isn't a number.

text | un: tequila sunset

[horrifictie]

this isn't a very fun puzzle.
puzzles should be fun!
i can help you make a fun puzzle.

so excited for these two to interract

[holeful]

I mean, I think it's fun, but I'm open to suggestions! What did you have in mind?