I'll explain it in the secret tags. Anyone who wants to solve it themselves, don't click!
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×As you've probably gathered, clue one's a code. Silver revealed that splitting them up into groups of three demonstrated that the first clue is made up of a pattern of four sets of letters. DiMono's fourth clue tells us that the first clue is encoded twice - and as it's a string of letters associated with DNA, the four sets of letters correspond to each of the four letters in DNA. But which?
DiMono's third clue suggests using Google. Googling 'DNA encryption' brings us to
this page on which is detailed award-winning research on encrypting messages in DNA, including the code they used. Applying this code twice to the message gives you 'elementary,_my_dear_watron'. From there, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is but a small leap.
So it really wasn't all that hard, unless you didn't click, in which case it was very hard indeed.
Edit: I'll leave my unnecessary bragging here, as a cautionary tale, but Watson and Crick discovered DNA. Which is why it would have been very cool.
Matt
[Edited by Mattcrampy at
Local Time:05-15-2005 at 11:28 AM]
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What do you call an elephant at the North Pole?
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×Lost.
