Quote from: captainnoob on January 24, 2018, 02:09:12 AM

There are 8 unique combination of border/fill/height for each of the flames on the border (10 if you count the orange ones, but they look like noise to me).

Red,Green,Tall
Red,Green,Short
Red,Purple,Tall
Red,Purple,Short
Yellow,Green,Tall
Yellow,Green,Short
Yellow,Purple,Tall
Yellow,Purple,Short

I think there is a real possibility that this a representation of octal, but not direct octal > text. I think it might be encoded a couple of levels... Something like octal > hex -or- binary > Morse > etc.

There are 40,320 possible ways to assign 0-8 to each of the color/height combinations. Also, not knowing the direction to read the information makes it more of a shot in the dark. So manually checking this might be unreasonable, and even scripting this is going to produce quite a bit of information to sift through. It would be nice if there were some clues available that might narrow the possibilities. I will try to script this out when I have some time. I think it might be best to grab a small sample rather than the whole thing.

If anyone has the ability to get this scripted out faster than me, I would really appreciate it if you would share your code with me.

dude, you forgot to factor in "blob" which is the fatness of inside of the flame and comes in two varieties (fat and thin). It makes for another bit for each flame and makes the problem you are posting intractable.

Also, the rule (at least for the previous puzzle) was: no brute forcing. But of course, I am desperate too and some little brute forcing never hurt anybody