Tea House of Cards

ALL cards are worthless.

All Cards are Worthless wrote:

ALL cards are worthless.

No

OOC: Give Bridge some love please, even if I play lots of card games, I would still prefer to play Bridge :) But let us move on to the RP, shall we?

For Tea-kachu, it was quite a weird night.
Looking like an adult rabbit just helps him move around these humans more easily without detection. When everyone else was thinking about the puzzles, he would just sneak up and try the password, but nothing seems to be working out well for him. He stared at the cards again and again, but nothing seems to work out for him.
Let us talk about what happened from the start. When poker cards show up the first think he thought of was alphabets. 26 alphabets typically match up with 52 unique poker cards (4 suits of 13 cards means 52 cards, excluding the joker). After all, a joker can be seen as a wild card anyways, like a blank tile in scrabble. So with the Poker Deck order in mind, he tried various methods of translating the 56 cards given to him.
First it was suit than card value (23456789TJQKA). It gave him a gibberish string. Then card value before suit. Still gibberish. In fact, as he write down the letters, he can't seem to get anything in particular. "Unless those letters are what I have to key in?" he asked himself. He stares at the 2 string of letters he got in front of him:
s*rfqbuofafqzta*eqragmpq*urrzefftqmkagjwufqbfqbxzlxzmlw*u
x*runedfuawnxba*qntaywjn*fttxquwbpyqaymldunewnepxsrxwsn*d
Nothing at all. Just nothing. What can you get from that 2 strings? Then he went on to count the quantity of each card, and notices that there are exactly 27 unique cards. A joker and 26 unique cards. "Unless we match them instead?" he thought to himself.
He repeats the process with the 26 cards.

OOC: I actually figured this part out before the hint was posted on the Carp Museum WFE but I have no idea what to do with it now that I know I'm right.

There had to be a reason that there were repeating cards. Obviously, those cards weren't a part of a normal deck. Could it be that they were letters? No, there were only thirteen numbers and there couldn't be only thirteen letters in the code. That wouldn't really make sense. Wait... there were thirteen numbers, and twenty-six letters. There are also two colors of suites. Could it be that each color of suite combined with their number was a letter? That would explain why there were repeating cards. Since there were the most of the five of diamonds, that should be the letter 'e', because that was the most common letter in the English language. Using the key, Adam quickly deciphered the code only to find out that this was the result:

T?ftepictogeauo?sesoumde?vssastiuraloukkitepgeplazyazx?i

The question marks being the jokers in the deck. That message sure didn't look like anything. Maybe without the jokers?

Tftepictogeauosesoumdevssastiuraloukkitepgeplazyazxi

That message was so much clearer. Totally. The word 'epic' was in it... but it wasn't like that would do anything. Maybe if he ran it through some cryptogram solver? Code solver? Something like that. He got the message:

hw her of hi mean ise sing be us sash on la dint to her mer day pay xo

That definitely was not the answer. Well, what the heck else could he do?

After sitting there for hours, trying to figure the code, Adam may have fallen asleep. But that's not the main point of this story. The main point is that he uses his genius brain, figures out the code, and enters the museum.
Okay, maybe that's not quite what happened. But I promise it might will happen soon. When he awoke from his slumber, Adam had a start. Why was he here? Where was he? In his surprise, he punched his card horn and got a bruise on his hand, as well as another fright from the loud 'BEEP'.
As he finally reoriented himself, Adam wondered what the code could be. Could it be that he switched the letters, like a=b, b=c, and so on? That wouldn't work; then the letter 'e' wouldn't be the most recurring letter there. It was worth a try anyway. Hm... it was called a ceaser cipher. Or it was spelled something like that. He was too lazy to correct it. Thank god for autocorrect.
As he scrolled through each combination of figures, he realized that no, he definitely couldn't figure out the code like this. Ugh. Some more code solving for the night...

Thank you all for a great event! The caRP will continue on the RMB and we hope to see you again in S3, so don't be afraid to keep your puppets here!

Tea house founder wrote:

Thank you all for a great event! The caRP will continue on the RMB and we hope to see you again in S3, so don't be afraid to keep your puppets here!

I'll be moving mine as soon as the Card Farming Competition results are published, since I prefer to have all of my card farmers in my puppet storage region.

Debian 1 wrote:

I'll be moving mine as soon as the Card Farming Competition results are published, since I prefer to have all of my card farmers in my puppet storage region.

same

The old man watched. And waited. One had made it past the first test, but they all needed help. It was a conundrum to him on how to help without hurting their progress in the long run. He sat and waited a few hours, thinking about the optimal solution. And then it occurred to him. He could tell them his name. Disguised as he was, he slipped a few more cards next to the lock: 🂣🃌🃁🃗🃄🃟🂶🂶🃁🃑🃑🃒🃑 with a note:

Mathematical Theory of Communication

The tea of today
will not go to waste
but the wait for the day
when I can taste-
test Season 3's first assay
makes me want to make haste!