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== Some facts ==
 
== Some facts ==
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The following statements about the Book of Woo are important and accepted/confirmed to be true:
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* The Book of Woo definitely contains sensible information that can be deciphered.
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* The encryption isn't based on some sort of device or mechanism that is hard to get.
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* The plain text is some sort of literature, as one can guess from Woo’s comment and the illustrations. A lot of time went into the plain text as well.
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* The story for “The Book of Woo” is written in English or German or both and an arbitrary number of encipherment steps (in a broad definition) have then been carried out.
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* The following word appears in the plain text: ENGLISH: Potbelly Hill | GERMAN: Bauchigen Hügel . Novil says "It should be quite easy to determine on which page."
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* On August 2, 2012, the reader Satsuoni posted the following in the comment thread (which was later on confirmed by Novil to be correct):
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<blockquote>By looking at the distribution of character pairs I have discovered that the alphabet can be cleanly separated into two parts, with “u” and “e” serving as separators (incidentally, they look like on and off switch) between two sets. Sets seem identical in function. For example, “z” in one subset is equivalent to “w” in other. The distribution of separators doesn’t suggest that they are spaces of any kind [...]</blockquote>
  
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More facts can be found on this page: [[What_We_Know|What we know]]
  
 
== Transliteration ==
 
== Transliteration ==

Revision as of 23:33, 1 March 2018

I tried to make the central bits from this wiki available on a single page for you to get started. Much more stuff is of course available in the individual pages.

Narga (talk) 22:49, 1 March 2018 (CET)

Links to comic and posts by novil

Some facts

The following statements about the Book of Woo are important and accepted/confirmed to be true:

  • The Book of Woo definitely contains sensible information that can be deciphered.
  • The encryption isn't based on some sort of device or mechanism that is hard to get.
  • The plain text is some sort of literature, as one can guess from Woo’s comment and the illustrations. A lot of time went into the plain text as well.
  • The story for “The Book of Woo” is written in English or German or both and an arbitrary number of encipherment steps (in a broad definition) have then been carried out.
  • The following word appears in the plain text: ENGLISH: Potbelly Hill | GERMAN: Bauchigen Hügel . Novil says "It should be quite easy to determine on which page."
  • On August 2, 2012, the reader Satsuoni posted the following in the comment thread (which was later on confirmed by Novil to be correct):
By looking at the distribution of character pairs I have discovered that the alphabet can be cleanly separated into two parts, with “u” and “e” serving as separators (incidentally, they look like on and off switch) between two sets. Sets seem identical in function. For example, “z” in one subset is equivalent to “w” in other. The distribution of separators doesn’t suggest that they are spaces of any kind [...]

More facts can be found on this page: What we know

Transliteration

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