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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 1184101, member: 24633"]SECRET GIVEAWAY CONTEST I have enjoyed solving word and logic puzzles since I was five years of age. That is almost sixty years! When I was in the U.S. Army, my specialty was cryptanalysis. That is code-breaking for you civilians. With that said, let’s get started. CONTEST RULES <ol> <li>All you have to do is decipher the encrypted message, and send your answer to me by Private Message. IMPORTANT: DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER HERE.</li> <li>There is no minimum number of posts required to participate. Who knows, maybe some lurkers will join just so they can play.</li> <li>The contest is open to ALL of our friends, here, regardless of their age or country of residence. By the way, if there is anyone here who feels they may not be welcome to participate because of differences with me in the past, that is ancient history. I want everyone to feel welcome.</li> <li>In your answer, spelling and capitalization must be correct. Punctuation is already in place, so I needn’t remind you that I don’t want to see any run-on words and sentences.</li> <li>Sorry, only one entry per person, so you’d better make sure that you’ve dotted all your eyes (i) and crossed all your tees (t) before you submit it.</li> <li>The encrypted message will be displayed using all uppercase letters so as not to give anything away. It is up to you to decide where capital letters are to be used.</li> <li>Entries must be received no later than Friday, May 27th at midnight (12:00AM) Eastern Standard Time. (Subject to change.)</li> <li>At the end of the contest, I will post the correct message and announce the winner and the SECRET PRIZE no later than Sunday, May 29th.</li> <li>In the event that there is more than one entry with the correct answer, the names of the members with the correct answer will be thrown into a hat for a random drawing.</li> <li>I am going to allow a 24-hour period for anyone to ask questions if there is anything that needs clarification. These questions must be posted directly to this thread so that everyone can read them. However, if I feel that the question will provide clues to the content of the coded message, I will inform you that I won’t give you an answer. </li> <li>Once the Q&A period has ended, I will post the encrypted message and the contest will officially begin.</li> </ol>NOTE: For those of you who have never solved a cryptogram (coded message), all you have to do is replace one letter for another, and that letter substitution will be the same throughout the entire message. For example, if you were given the coded word, PUZGMPZ, the answer could be Lincoln. Every “P” would represent an “L” and every “Z” would represent an “N” as illustrated in this example.[/QUOTE]

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