And I would be thankful for a link (Twitter?) to where Coin Artist said she coded the message with bacon cyphre. This bacon piece of info popped up out of nowhere and one moment nobody and the next everybody is searching for bacon coded hidden messages.
The reason why I am asking is I thought it would be rather coded with full byte coding, I was thinking of ISO-8859-1, the default for QR codes, which I think is incidentally same as the Code Page 437 mentioned before (when restricted to a-z, A-Z, 0-9 at least). I compared them very briefly though so I may be mistaken.
So please, anybody has the Twitter link or at least recalls what exactly she said?
Here is what captainoob asked for, she explicitly said under the twitter post with high resolution image that nothing from the previous steps is needed for the solution, only the painting:
https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/945728698518593538Edit:
One more thing, notice she calls it "1FLAMEN6 Puzzzle". AFAIK this is the first time we have a conformation that "N6" is not a random product of vanity generator but something intentionally put there. Does it mean "in six" is open to discussion.
OK thanks itod, so it seems to have finally disproved that they may be any merit in what I was suggesting earlier: to try to link the sequence of Xs (from the very initial clue of this puzzle) with the 7x9 chessboard.
By the lack of info of the bacon cyphre twit by Coin Artist, I am starting to think it is just something somebody suggested at one point and the rest of us cought it because of its direct link with Shakespear. By I could swear I saw somebody mentioning it was suggested by Coin Artist herself...