Square:
RJOCK
TVQUI
ZPHDB
AGSFE
WLYNX

Key was: "HERE IS THE KEY"

Everything exactly the same like in this old riddle

Congrats by your lateral thinking! Post #1203! Obvious when you know, but not before!

Thank you both, didn't really pay attention to the old riddle, thus missed it.

That one you can brute at least. He says it's numbers, so the three • are all one number.

So that leaves you with three numbers to find, all different.

Yeah, i was trying to add or subtract 12 03, didn't check the post.

There is nothing to bruteforce, just google "alt codes"

Thanks for the contest/giveaway, NameGoo!

OF COURSE!!! Now I feel stupid...

ZOMG! I can't believe you people are this smart! oh well... back to my dumb chair and stupid desk :p

Thanks for the original giveaway, NameGoo, you... *insert nasty word here*

:D

Aye, but you can still brute it in a reasonable amount of time unlike the rest.

Some asked me how I solved the fourth riddle, so I'll explain (while crying for not be able to solve the code for so much time, and got beated...)

The clues were:
1. Password hint: Cipher, #1203
2. 46 99 56 66 76 56 42 66 56 60 90 96

The first was obviously to a post, #1203, there NameGoo said he used nihilist cypher, and if you follow that link for the cypher, you can find the info needed about that cypher.

The coded message was in Caesar (ROT-13) and the decoded text is:
"R. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx." within a square.
HERE IS THE KEY

If you count the letters in the message in quotation marks, they're 25, just the needed in nihilistic cypher in a 5x5 square, and using the letters like this:

- 12345
1 RJOCK
2 TVQUI
3 ZPHDB
4 AGSFE
5 WLYNX

and the key text "HERE IS THE KEY", has 12 letters, the same as the numbers in the riddle, so the key is: HEREISTHEKEY. If you translate the letters to the square in positions, they are (y,x): 3,3 - 4,5 - 1,1 - 4,5 - 2,5 - 4,3 - 2,1 - 3,3 - 4,5 - 1,5 - 4,5 - 5,3

Now everything put together to decode:

P.T ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??
KEY 33 45 11 45 25 43 21 33 45 15 45 53
C.T 46 99 56 66 76 56 42 66 56 60 90 96

We're missing P.T. (PT+KEY = CT), so to get PT we needed to subtract KEY from CT to get PT, like this:

P.T 13 54 45 21 51 13 21 33 11 45 45 43

And that, translated from the square to get the letters, gave us this text: "onetwothrees"
and used as a password in the pastebin web, gave us the final code (the one I couldn't figure it out... :P)

Thanks NameGoo! :)

Thanks for the explanation!

EDIT: Time to go offline. Have fun, you all!

Is there a term for words that also make up other words?

For instance: Car and Cart.

primitive?