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The First Point of Aries (Or How I Learned To Love the Code)

26 Feb

How Many times Did you Look At this!

Hello Ginter fanatics. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume most of you don’t know me or what I’m about.  So, click here if you would like to know more about my blog.  Maybe my blog is something you’d like to check out now and then.  (Or you want to sift through my old blog.  Whateves.)

Also, this post originally appeared here at our Allen & Ginter Code Blog.  I’ll be doing most of the blogging about this topic over there, with links from here.  This one was too cool not to do twice 🙂

The full story of how this was figured out is too big to tell here (or all at once-it’s big enough as it is).  So if you are just looking for a solution-well you should be able to skim this pretty quickly.

The only caveat I insist on is that you understand that I didn’t solve this puzzle on my own.  This was a three way effort, and Ryan and Guillaume (my teammates) deserve as much, if not more, credit than I do.  I’m happy to have done my part, and to know that I helped.  That what I did was part of the solution, but it wasn’t the whole thing.

That said, after 8 months of this-my eyes were just about to come bleeding out of my skull from this code.

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