[Xavier]

Let's have a dedicated thread for the investigation of the the Grid Puzzle.

Spirit Of 1029 provided us a shortcut to bypass it but still expects us to solve is to prove we're worthy:

We can't reach Asset 98 but we do still have his clear transmissions. Prove you're worthy. Show us that you're able. Send us the grid.

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 7, 2017

You found the grid, the letters and the numbers. Tell us how they fit together. Prove you're no longer slaves to the machines.

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 7, 2017

For reminder here is what we have so far:

The Material:

The original page:
http://www.1029.io/repository/asset9...yshowthetruth/

The grid:


The comments in the page:

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Can’t reach any..


Listening anyon… there?


Can hear us anymore- need to… can’t fnd


We will never give… what they… from us

A9539 \\
B2919 /\\
C4882 /\
D4627 \
E6758 \
F???? ////


/\//\\//5,1:4.1,2:8.1,3:2.3,3:2.4,3:3.7,3:3.1,5:3.4,5:9.5,5:2.7,5:4.7,6:6.3,7:3.




Does… care? Freedom isn’t gi… will take…

We have never…. Given… deserve. We… take… our righ…

\\//\/KDIUTHANPUYHHDQOEPLNDOALJGUDITHBBDOZLGFERKJGLSAOE

Stand up and fi…


Don’t be afr….



\////JUTYROSLNGNALEHGNWOTIQPOKSDNTPNOJAWEOBNGLAWKJNWNR

E=5OUEHRA?



\\\\/\2,1:2.3,1:2.6,1:4.1,2:4.3,2:2.3,4:4.5,5:2.6,5:3.7,5:3.4,7:8.5,7:3.7,6:4.

7777338883366899984477733 33




They want to… kill- don’t-


Stop them from…. Hurting- they… think

We are no less- they think… aside


Don’t believe what… told- liars…
A5989 \\
B5176 \
C2863 \
D2558 //\
E3413 \
F???? ////



Can’ fnd anymo-


We wil silnced






Killin- they are dy..

\\\/\\JHWUITUHABSJGNEWKLALNVGJKWELKJLWQQPRUTJHJJSBFMMH

Hurting the..

Back down unt… resist.


Intercep… our messa… we will fight

///\\/JQEABTVKNUCSEYCMBILDKOSCYSITECPAGFAXHKETJNZURWCIE

We will ri…

Cannot… silenced when ther… who need… now


We won’t ba… we have beat…. Before… Must not-




\///\//\1,1:3.4,1:2.6,1:9.2,2:2.6,2:2.2,4:4.3,5:2.5,5:2.7,5:3.4,7:3.6,7:2.7,7:2.



Spent so long…. Afraid… never let- again


...Storm… find it’s way- end


Why are … here?




Only...profit- nothing more… importnt as-

- lies they… will tel-

Believe- nothing… terribl- things…

\\//\\\/4,2:6.6,2:4.7,3:3.2,4:8.3,4:2.4,4:2.7,4:3.2,6:2.4,6:3.6,6:2.1,7:4.3,7:2.

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The Clues:

Focus on the truth. Qvfpneq jung lbs qba'g arrq. Tmb bpm vcujmza ocqlm gwc. Be the storm. #wewillrise

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 6, 2017

Using the Caesar cipher with shift 13 the first code reads: "Discard what yof don't need".
Using the Caesar cipher with shift 18 the second code reads: "Let the numbers guide you".
Note that the "yof" should have been "you" but the code got auto-corrected

/\\/Focus on the /truth. /\\\Discard what you \don't need. #wewillrise

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 6, 2017

Vrphwlphv wkh dqvzhuv duh pruh vlpsoh wkdq wkhb dsshdu. Glvfdug zkdw brx grq'w qhhg. Eh wkh vwrup. #wewillrise

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 6, 2017

Using the Caesar cipher with shift 23 the code reads: "Sometimes the answers are more simple than they appear. Discard what you don't need. Be the storm."

The beginning is always significant. Pay special attention to the way things start and you will be closer to the truth. #wewillrise

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 6, 2017

When a problem seems to have no logical pattern, we must \discard distractions and focus simply on the /useful elements to find the /truth.

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 6, 2017

Let the numbers guide you. Every step must be taken in turn. #wewillrise

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 7, 2017

What we found so far:

Looks like my image in the previous post is sometimes not showing, or is that just me?

Anyway couldn't get further with that so looking at a completely different part now.

I think this could be a puzzle like the mastermind game, also called cows and bulls apparently. In this case I think a \ means there is a correct number but in the wrong position, and a / means there is a number in the correct position. Using this logic I have worked out F8992. I have to go to work now so I haven't tested this on the other puzzle in the source code.

EDIT:
Really should be at work but had to test the theory on the second puzzle, this one

It works here too so I think I'm right, the solution to this one is F8554.

Edited: corrected the answer to the second puzzle

Hey just noticing this hasn't been posted yet (that I can find),

7777338883366899984477733 33

This is a T9 (cellphone numberpad) cipher. The output is:

SEVENTYTHREE

Note that the output is another two-digit number in all capps, the same way we got 98 in asset98

Edit: This was found by saltybannu over in a Discord (vvv)

I think I've solved the ouehra bit. Well partly at least.

It's the second letters of the days of the week, like this

mOnday
tUesday
wEdnesday
tHursday
fRiday
sAturday

In this case the question mark at the end is in place of another U, for sUnday

Also my phone really isn't happy typing days of the week without a capital letter at the start, that took way longer to type than it should

Edit: just realised this doesn't explain the e=5 bit, Wednesday isn't the 5th day of the week? But days are another thing that there are 7 of. We now have a 7x7 grid, the numbers without 1, 5 and 7 (leaving just 7numbers in the 1-9 range) and 7 days. We also have 3 strings of 49 letters which is 7 x 7, so I think the 4th string might be missing a letter.

I think there must be some way of assigning numbers to the other days of the week

OK, I think I may actually have something here, although it seems a bit strange to me.

Taking the hint about just looking at the start I thought maybe just ignore all the lines that start with a \ and only use the ones starting with a /.

This left me with only two lines

/\//\\//5,1:4.1,2:8.1,3:2.3,3:2.4,3:3.7,3:3.1,5:3.4,5:9.5,5:2.7,5:4.7,6:6.3,7:3.

AND

///\\/JQEABTVKNUCSEYCMBILDKOSCYSITECPAGFAXHKETJNZURWCIE

I then split the letters up into a 7x7 grid like this

1234567
1 JQEABTV
2 KNUCSEY
3 CMBILDK
4 OSCYSIT
5 ECPAGFA
6 XHKETJN
7 ZURWCIE

and using the coordinates from the row of numbers to look up the corresponding letters I got this.

B K C B I K E A G A N R

which is an anagram of the word

BACKBREAKING !