3 Jumbled Words - Stumped!

[kirupa]

Hey everyone,
I was IM'ed this rather strange decoding thing/stuff. There are three words merged into the following series of letters:

a g f p b d j j r b n g f c g c k i a c h h d a e a

Does anybody know what the three individual words are? I've been staring at it for the past 2 seconds (ha!) and I can't seem to figure it out.

Here is a file that lists the potential words that could be one out of the three words we are seeking: http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=203255

Cheers!
Kirupa :ub:

[mdipi]

wow! lol i will still look

[kirupa]

The PD is extraneous - meant to throw us off; I just found that out a few seconds ago....still doesn't help me much.

[senocular]

thats pretty rough

heres something that might help a little... vowels seperated out and the rest in alphabetical order:


a a a a e i
b b c c c d d f f g g g h h j j k n p r

[mdipi]

or me...

[mdipi]

26 letters in the thing...

[[Legoman]]

I would've assumed the letters would be in the order they appear in the words, but it seems impossible that way since there aren't enough vowels near the start, so maybe not.

[kirupa]

EDIT: Kirupa was having a brain freeze, and besides referring to himself in third person, removed the erroneous letters posted.

Cheers!
Kirupa :bandit:

[kirupa]

A list of potential words ThePope sent me using a program called Anagram Genius.

It may help :)

[[Legoman]]

Kirupa, the bogus p and d were already removed, Sens list was right.

[thoriphes]

lego, you sent this word thing?

[[Legoman]]

no, but the list in the first post has already been edited from the original one he posted to remove a 'pd' and that's what sen's rearranged.

[kirupa]

Sorry - I edited my post; I was mistaken :) Sen's post was accurate. On another note, here is another page that may help somebody out: http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html I was unable to get a workable solution - I am going to get a pen and paper and try to do this by hand (probably the way it was intended to be done) :)

Cheers!
Kirupa :rd:

[kirupa]

I was provided with the solution and the method of obtaining it - I'll post it sometime tomorrow. I don't want to discourage any of you from staying up all night trying to figure this out :P

[thoriphes]

wait, is it an actual anagram or is there some system?

[kirupa]

There is a system. The methods that we used previously would probably not work.

[kirupa]

Well, the solution is "guess this code". The solution can be found by converting all the letters to their numerical equivalents. For example, A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.

In the end, you have 26 numbers, or 13 sets of numbers. Take each set of numbers and add them together. You will now have 13 numbers. Subtract 1 from each number, and you will have another group of 13 numbers. Convert the numbers back to their graphical, letter equivalents. You will get guessthiscode which breaks down into: "guess this code".

Thanks to Raja for IM'ing me this puzzle and the solution, and thanks to the encoder of this puzzle - Anand. As is the case with most online acquaintances, their last names elude me :)

Cheers!
Kirupa :tb:

[senocular]

:looks above his head:
Oh look there it goes now!

[kirupa]

Yeah - all the great lengths I and a few friends went to find various C++ anagram decoders, Word Macros, etc. to solve this problem was in vain lol.

[thoriphes]

wow, cryptography. that's pretty dense, and there i was descrambling the letters and such.

[[Legoman]]

hmm I hate completely illogical puzzles like that. Bah! to Raja and Anand!

Ps. anyone else think that d-a-m-n shouldn't be censored?

[kirupa]

Hey lego,
This puzzle was logical. It just required us to throw away our old ways of thinking. I immediately assumed that three words must be mixed up in the 26 letters without thinking that a different way may exist.

Sorry - had to edit your post; as long as **** is used towards other people, it will stay on the banned list. I don't want you to banish my friends to hell lol! =)

Cheers!
Kirupa :block:

[[Legoman]]

well, what I mean is, there's no logical progression to the solution, it's just a randomly chosen system that could just as easily have been a different set of calculations.
but anyway, I'll try not to curse any more of your friends to an afterlife of eternal pain ;) was just thinking that from my viewpoint **** ain't a very strong word, so it can seem like you're saying something worse since it's a four-letter censored word...

eg. my initial post said **** Raja and Anand

[Raydred]

Kwyjibo !!!!!

=)