The message is encoded and requires three elements to break it. The three elements need to be guessed. Besides being required to break the code, they are also clues as to the identity of what we're searching.

I'll start by giving a random clue for each of the three elements. To know the identity to each of the clues, questions need to be raised, to which I'll reply with a simple yes or no.

When one of the three elements is guessed I'll confirm it. When all three have been guessed, you have what is needed to break the key.

The message: dnYzHeupqlecjio

Clue #1: It is a bird
Clue #2: It is one month
Clue #3: Given as nourishment

Last Edited : Thursday, 6 December 2007 - 11:23

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree!

#1 eagle
#2 12th of year
#3 food

So sage: What?

Harold1:
#1: No
#2: No
#3: No

#1 Dove
#2 Feed
#3 May

#1: No
#2: No
#3: No

wrong order on my guesses and spelling too I see on one
#2 May
#3 Fed

#2: No
#3: No

(BTW ... I assumed you meant the correction and went with it for the 1st replies)

I'll help out with a hint. It's mythological.

A Roc?

No too short,

Not a pheonix,

I'd say Stymphalian but it has no j and is not a month.

Gah!!

Itzamna Cocahmut??!! I dont know.

Last Edited : Thursday, 6 December 2007 - 16:55

In general no

Huitzilopochtli?

#1 Turkey
#2 march
#3 water

LOD you got it!

#1: It's hummingbird, He was know as the god of war, and was represented as a hummingbird.
#2: It is the 15th month of the Aztec calendar
#3: Heart, he was to be fed human Hearts.

Now using a simple transposition with the key, where A = 1, B = 2, ... , Z = 27, (space) = 28, a = 29 , ... , and some upper/lower case transpositions you get the key: HeartHummingbird and a simple numerical offset of 15 (the month).

You get:
H u i t z i l o p o c h t l i
8 21 9 20 26 9 12 15 16 15 3 8 20 12 9

H e a r t H u m m i n g b i r d
8 5 1 18 20 8 21 13 13 9 14 7 2 9 18 4

31 41 25 53 8 32 48 43 44 39 32 30 37 36 42
d n Y z H e u p q l e c j i o
8 + 8 + 15 = 31,
5 + 21 + 15 = 41,
1 + 9 + 15 = 25, etc.

Last Edited : Friday, 7 December 2007 - 21:45

Oh it wasn't a scrambled word it was a code?

Would have helped if I had read all of your post. lol

Last Edited : Friday, 7 December 2007 - 06:23