Wildlife

[Strategos]

Wait, do we get our stats reset and then our current stats added on? If not, then won't we have less than everybody else? Unless Stats doesn't mean health.

[Shattered_Ribbon]

o_O We come this far, and now it's over? *sniffles even more*

Oh well, Wildlife 2 will be even funner. ^=^

 

*still sighs wistfully*

[Parshy]

We should add this prize onto the other prize for WL2

[antiaircraft]

@Aang: Well we thought of that but we decided we didn't want to deprive the winner of Wildlife 1 of their hard earned prize.

 

@Vira: Hopefully Wildlife 2 will make up for it. :yes:

 

@Strategos: Your current contest stats will be used to boost your stats for Wildlife 2, so yes, it is a bonus.

 

And now I can post the answer to the scenario that nobody got right. :devil:

 

The message was encoded with a method that involved both scrambling and disguising.

 

HECYR8 EAPYQHLFU 5SB D3PK5EX

 

First you get rid of all the spaces:

HECYR8EAPYQHLFU5SBD3PK5EX

 

Now, I mentioned as a hint to look for the one number that was repeated twice, which in this case was the number five. So you break the message up into groups of five letters:

HECYR 8EAPY QHLFU 5SBD3 PK5EX

 

Next, you write each of the groups in its own column to form a grid:

H8Q5P

EEHSK

CALB5

YPFDE

RYU3X

 

Then, you form another string of letters by reading across the grid:

H8Q5PEEHSKCALB5YPFDERYU3X

 

Now the two numbers repeated in the code come into play again. The message was disguised by hiding it in a whole load of junk text, so you get rid of everything except the letters in between the two number '5's:

PEEHSKCALB

 

Then you simply reverse the text to get:

BLACKSHEEP

 

black sheep

 

I love the grid scrambling method, it's effective yet easy to use. b)

[Crusher]

To be honest, Theo, may I suggest that you work for the S.A.S.? >_<

 

=Cameron=

[antiaircraft]

If I worked for the SAS, I'd get fired immediately since my codes would be cracked within two seconds. :P

 

[hint]Post the final winner and PM them[/hint]