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Utilities to find solutions to Dinosaur Comics - 1663
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Utilities to find solutions to Dinosaur Comics - 1663

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lonnen/cryptoanagram
• Owner: lonnen
• Created: 2020-04-02T07:57:53.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-12T07:21:44.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-12T12:37:09.335Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: http://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1663
• Size: 5.62 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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cryptoanagram

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Utilities to find solutions to [Dinosaur Comics 1663](http://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1663).

Ryan North has given several constraints in the news post accompanying [Comic 1665](http://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1665):

- All words in the solution are dictionary words.

- What's more, all words in the solution are in the Jadrian's awesome [Qwantz Corpus](http://cs.brown.edu/~jadrian/docs/etc/qwantzcorpus>)!

- The solution is natural-sounding, reasonably-grammatical dialogue that T-Rex would say, using phrasing that T-Rex would use.

- The punctuation :,!! is in the solution, in that order!

- The longest word in the solution is 11 characters long.

- The solution does not refer to anagrams or puzzles or winning t-shirts.

- However, what T-Rex is saying is directly related to the content of the comic the puzzle appears in.

- The letters given are case-sensitive!

- The first word of the solution is "I".

- I tested out [Joel's puzzle-solving tool](http://afifthofnothing.com/anacryptogram.html) and it does let you know that the correct answer works!

- The solution is long enough to make pure brute force not really feasible. You'll have to use your head.

Ryan North followed up with additional clues accompanying [Comic 1666](http://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1666):

- Paul Stansifer has released [Qwantzle Data](http://github.com/paulstansifer/qwantzle_data), which scraped [the OhNoRobot search engine](http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?comic=23) to gather Dinosaur Comics text

- Ryan [released the Dinosaur Comics text as XML](http://www.qwantz.com/everywordindinosaurcomicsOHGOD.xml) which is redundant with Paul's work (above)

- The longest word is 11 characters long, the second longest is 8 characters long, and they're side-by-side in the solution

Additionally at TCAF in 2012 Ryan said to me personally that the solution would make a good epitaph.

In 2023 Ryan provided [one more Qwantzle clue](https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4005#blogpost): The final letter is "w"

Combined with earlier clues this means the sentence ends in "w!!". Presumably this will rule out all the current false-positives that have been submitted.