Hamstergame: Unlocking tier 2

To to unlock the infernal hammer with the ultimate goal of tapping the prize money and saving the homeless animals at the shelter its first necessary to decipher the following old spell.



IuTmxgzargzouty. lux atruiqotm zokx zcu vrkgyk cxozk znk yAs ul totk vray totk otzu znk luXas. haz jutz luxMkz ot znoy josktyouty grr tashkxy gxk Ynolzkj he yOd.


In the old magic book which the hamster uses there is a blurred note which stats one should pay attention to the upper case letters which are a key.)




Cheating, asking a shyster, trying to bribe the seahorse, using puppet sockets accounts or glitches is like always allowed.
Only the correct answer matters.


I would also like to point out again that there is always the possibility to consult the seahorse at your own risk if you get stuck.

74

Maybe your calculator is a bit flawed. Its not 74

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Top Marks for creativity. I'm terrible at these teasers. But I'll take a stupid educated guess anyways. Is it 98?

52
Ycabnyyh

Ycabnyyh, Cycnos, I agree with that... But don't forget the " haz jutz luxMkz ot znoy josktyouty grr tashkxy gxk Ynolzkj he yOd."
So either yod or znoxze ? Depends on which side you shift...

Don't read the following message if you don't want to be spoiled for this enigm !

For, me there are three possibilities (it depends on how we interprate the part you quoted) :

1. We use the decimal digits in the calcul and we encrypt the result after that (in this case the way we write the numerals should not changed the calcul itself) with a result of "Ycabnyyh" in decimal that we encrypt to get "52".
   
2. We consider we are in a new base-ten where "totk" is equal to a 3 as its place in the common decimal base changed. We do the calcul and got the "yod" that is written "6" in this base and equals two in our decimal base.
   
3. We consider they speak about the "totzn" number of this new arranged base-ten, so "5". We do the calcul in this base and got "74" that equals eighteen in our decimal system.
   

The last answer was already submitted by Grinya but was wrong, so it should be either 52 or 6 for me.
"Znoxze" doesn't seem to work here as we don't shift to this side during the encryption : the "jutz luxMkz " stipulates we have to use the same encoding, so there is only one side possible.

ITAXMYO

Quote: "Beekeeper"​ITAXMYO

​Aiix fowe

Quote: "ashlobo"​Top Marks for creativity. I'm terrible at these teasers. But I'll take a stupid educated guess anyways. Is it 98?

​ ooh, can I change to 107 please!

Quote: "Cycnos"​Don't read the following message if you don't want to be spoiled for this enigm !
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​For, me there are three possibilities (it depends how we interprate the part you quoted) :
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1. We use the decimal digits in the calcul and we encrypt the result after that (in this case the way we write the numerals should not changed the calcul itself) with a result of "Ycabnyyh" in decimal that we encrypt to get "52".
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2. We consider we are in a new base-ten where "totk" is equal to a 3 as its place in the common decimal base changed. We do the calcul and got the "yod" that is written "6" in this base and equals two in our decimal base.
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3. We consider they speak about the "totzn" number of this new arranged base-ten, so "5". We do the calcul in this base and got "74" that equals eighteen in our decimal system.
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​The last answer was already submitted by Grinya but was wrong, so it should be either 52 or 6 for me.
​"Znoxze" doesn't seem to work here as we don't shift to this side during the encryption : the "jutz luxMkz " stipulates we have to use the same encoding, so there is only one side possible.

I don't think that a second may be correct because "totk" is written with the letters, not just figures.

There is also a possibility that the whole result of double "totk" shall be shifted by six, not every figure in it.

So a correct answer may be 12

Last Hint: The correct numbers where mentioned already. I will unlock the next game next week.

@ashlobo off course, you can always edit your input. even when the contest is over!! As i mentioned above, cheating is always allowed with hamster games

Quote: "Muenzenhamster"​Last Hint: The correct numbers where mentioned already. I will unlock the next game next week.
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​@ashlobo off course, you can always edit your input. even when the contest is over!! As i mentioned above, cheating is always allowed with hamster games
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In that case, since the examiner doesn't care, I'll copy off someone who looks like he/she knows what this is all about ... my new better thought out answer is now 52

Well, I'll go with 6 then...

Unfortunately, I lent to a friend my copy of Simon Singh's "Code Book" when I was at high school but I never gave it back...

Quote: "Grinya"​

​I don't think that a second may be correct because "totk" is written with the letters, not just figures.
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​There is also a possibility that the whole result of double "totk" shall be shifted by six, not every figure in it.
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​So a correct answer may be 12

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About the second proposition, we should thing like that :
The way we wrote the world "box" change when you encrypt it, but we still talk about a 9 faces object. Even if we encript it, the shape of the object stay the same.

If we start at 6 (0 in decimal) and count until 86 (20 in decimal) like that, it will be : six, seven, eight, nine, zero, one, two, three, four, five, seventy (or seventy six ? Depend the prononciation of "76" here), seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine, seventy zero (or seventy ?), seventy one, seventy two, seventy three, seventy four, seventy five, eighty (or eighty six ?).
I'm noticing I made an error with this one : the answer would be 6 in decimal, or "2" / "zcu" encrypted

However, I agree there is a problem with this concept because of the definition and etymology of the words we use for the numerals : it's the reason why I didn't chose this answer in my first comment.

12 can work, indeed ; I didn't think about this possibily ahah

Quote: "ashlobo"​​
​In that case, since the examiner doesn't care, I'll copy off someone who looks like he/she knows what this is all about ... my new better thought out answer is now 52

What if I'm just a puppet and someone ordered me to confuse you to orientate your answers in the wrong directions ?
Maybe the correct answer was 98 after all ?

Anyway, the answer is twelve and "6" is correct.

Znk gtyckx oy zckrbk

translate to:

The answer is twelve





9-6+9-6=6

so six is correct


Tier 2 will be unlocked in the evening.

Quote: "​Cheating, asking a shyster, trying to bribe the seahorse, using puppet sockets accounts or glitches is like always allowed."​Only the correct answer matters.

6.​

@pnightingale hahahahahaha

Sorry next game will be unlocked soon. Had lot of things to do.