+Cach-U-Nuts Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 (edited) I'd send them email or something... the original date was the 26th, but they moved it up and I bet they forgot to update that website!! Congrats on "cracking" it Naomi ta - i pm'd them with some mac stuff for the website was hoping the cacheunuts are watching this thread and would reply shortly Thanks for the heads up!! All is good....Craig just forgot to change the final comment! All of your information was recorded and you're entered into the drawing so no worries NOTE TO EVERYONE....The drawing will be held on Thursday evening the 31st around 6:00 pm MDT - we've already awarded the 1st prize to SEWdaughter who was the 1st to solve. We'll be drawing out 7 additional names on Thursday evening so if you haven't yet completed the challenge....get 'cracken' 7 more limited edition two-toned antique bronze/chrome coins will be given away!!! We will post a note here with the winners names!!! GOOD LUCK! Edited January 29, 2008 by Cach-U-Nuts Quote Link to comment
+MustangJoni Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Yippee! Tomorrow is the drawing! Quote Link to comment
+Cach-U-Nuts Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 oh DANG! the website says I'm right but after entering my details it says the deadline has passed! Sorry about that. We hadn't changed the website after we decided to change the deadline. We have your infomation and you are officially entered into the drawing. Same goes for anyone else who entered and received that false message. Quote Link to comment
+mousekakat Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Yippee! Tomorrow is the drawing! Joni, are you dying to know how many correct entries there are, like me, lol? Naomi Quote Link to comment
+MustangJoni Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Yippee! Tomorrow is the drawing! Joni, are you dying to know how many correct entries there are, like me, lol? Naomi Why yes I am? ..hint, hint... Quote Link to comment
+Cach-U-Nuts Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Yippee! Tomorrow is the drawing! Joni, are you dying to know how many correct entries there are, like me, lol? Naomi Why yes I am? ..hint, hint... Well.....Okay then....here's a hint....it's less 100!! Quote Link to comment
+MustangJoni Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Cool! Now if you can throw out every name but mine.... Yes, I am joking again! kinda... Quote Link to comment
+mousekakat Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Cool! Now if you can throw out every name but mine.... Yes, I am joking again! kinda... WITCH, lol! Can you throw them all out except for Joni and mine, lol? Naomi Quote Link to comment
+lelle1987 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Cool! Now if you can throw out every name but mine.... Yes, I am joking again! kinda... WITCH, lol! Can you throw them all out except for Joni and mine, lol? Naomi For my part, nobody has to be thrown out, as long as I'm guaranteed to be one of the winners... Quote Link to comment
+MustangJoni Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Cool! Now if you can throw out every name but mine.... Yes, I am joking again! kinda... WITCH, lol! Can you throw them all out except for Joni and mine, lol? Naomi For my part, nobody has to be thrown out, as long as I'm guaranteed to be one of the winners... That is very generous of you! Quote Link to comment
+coreynjoey Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Good Luck everyone!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Cach-U-Nuts Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Good Luck everyone!!!! Drum roll please . . . And the winners are: http://www.thecachingplace.com/enigmawinners.htm Quote Link to comment
+coreynjoey Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 ***Does the Happy Dance*** YAY! Thanks for the challenge!! It was fun!!! Quote Link to comment
+desert georangers Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 That was fun, even though I didn't win. How many entries did you end up with? Quote Link to comment
+Cach-U-Nuts Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 That was fun, even though I didn't win. How many entries did you end up with? We ended up with 76 correct entries. Quote Link to comment
+GPX Navigators Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 That was a great puzzle. Thanks to TCP and the creator for making a great coin. I learned some interesting stuff with this challenge. Mostly about the shortcomings of my brain. Fun! Quote Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Congratulations to all the winners!! Thanks or the fun Cache U Nuts!!! Quote Link to comment
+Little'n Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Hooray!!! I think my husband thought I had won the lottery when I saw my name on the winner's list. ha! I can't wait to see the LE coin. Thanks for the cool geocoin and fun challenge! Quote Link to comment
+GPX Navigators Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Oh and Congrats to all the winners! See my brain wires are fried! I think Joni shold get a special coin just for all the fun she brought to this topic and for her cool Enigma cache! Quote Link to comment
+MustangJoni Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Oh and Congrats to all the winners! See my brain wires are fried! I think Joni shold get a special coin just for all the fun she brought to this topic and for her cool Enigma cache! Too funny! Congrats to all the winners! Quote Link to comment
+dhenninger Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Congrats to the winners! Thanks for the contest! Quote Link to comment
+wutzebear Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Wow - my name is on the winner list! What a beautiful start into the day (well, over here it's 6 a.m.). Thank you very much and congratulations to all the other winners! But even if I hadn't won: it was a great joy to that old thing called brain to decypher the code! Quote Link to comment
+Nurse Nanna Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Thanks Cache U Nuts for the fun of this! I had the coin in hand for some time before I got the chance to work on it. Then could not seem to figure it out for quite awhile.....then one night just as I was getting ready for bed the light bulb lit. Raced back to the computer and fiddled with it and got it working in just minutes. The words and letters took a bit to figure it out and some experimentation of possibilities. And before I knew it, I had it! Very fun, a great challenge and I really enjoyed it. Thanks! And congrats to the coin winners! anne Quote Link to comment
+OverTheEdge Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Congrats to all of the winners! I received my coin(s) last week - I still have plans on working through the puzzle. Thanks for the challenge. Quote Link to comment
+mousekakat Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Congrats to the winners.... *goes off in the corner with something alcoholic in each hand and prepares to pout* One for me, and one for Joni, lol! Naomi Quote Link to comment
+lelle1987 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Grats to all the winners! And thanks a lot for the contest, it's been great fun! :-D Form now on I'll encrypt all my posts at this forum with Enigma, and I wont tell anyone which settings I use... Quote Link to comment
+The Caching Place Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the ENIGMA Challenge - TCP would like to acknowledge and thank Dave Mars (aka The Mars Bars)...designer of the coin and challenge and a very 'special' thanks to Dirk Rijmenants from Belgium, Dirk is the creator of the Enigma Simulator that many of you used to "crack" the code. We'd like to encourage you to visit Dirk's website: http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/index.htm where he currently has a very exciting challenge taking place! Thanks Dave and Dirk for making the ENIGMA coin a GREAT success! Quote Link to comment
+Team FIREBOY Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Would someone who figured the code out please email me the answer. My brain hurts and I only tried for about 10 minutes a month ago. I just don't do puzzles. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+forthferalz Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Would someone who figured the code out please email me the answer. My brain hurts and I only tried for about 10 minutes a month ago. I just don't do puzzles. Thanks. Me too but this one is ok as long as you have an Enigma Machine. You can get one from the internet -just check you have understood how to set up the machine before you start. I expect there should be some sort of trouble shooting page for this coin - perhaps someone will write one up for the......trackablecoin.com wiki http://www.trackablecoins.com/index.php?title=Enigma_Geocoin Quote Link to comment
+coreynjoey Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Good Luck everyone!!!! Drum roll please . . . And the winners are: http://www.thecachingplace.com/enigmawinners.htm We received our coin today, w00t! It's very very nice, thanks again for the challenge and the coin! Quote Link to comment
+wutzebear Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I found my coin in the mailbox yesterday and wow - it looks great! Thanks again, TCP, Dave and Dirk! Quote Link to comment
ASH Campion Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 (edited) Sorry to bring an old thread back to life (and I know the contest is over) but the coin has been driving me crazy these last few days. I've downloaded an ENIGMA simulator and I am pretty sure that I have my settings correct but am getting stuck with the key starting position.... *wait a minute, checks pdf help file, light goes on over head, sees what he was doing wrong, and ...* YES YES YES Two days I've been going over what was written here . Just started to type the above and beg for a clue with the start key but I think I've got it now! *off to submit answer* Confirmed. YES Edited August 29, 2009 by ASH Campion Quote Link to comment
+freshfreddy Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 still don't get it. ut ^'ll keep on looking Quote Link to comment
+freshfreddy Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I had an Enigma GeoCoin ( http://www.thecachingplace.com/shop/pc/vie...p;idproduct=254 ) given to me for Christmas. Has anyone completed an Enigma GeoCoin challenge? I downloaded the Enigma Simulator, keyed in all the info from the coin, and I get gibberish when I try and decode the message. Oh, and I was not aware that you only get 5 tries. So I'm at one try left. Can anyone who has successfully completed the challenge give me a hand? Thanks, -J I suggest you read the paragraph "The Message Key" here . When I had read it and repeated it slowly to myself 25 times or so, I finally managed to understand what I had missed. We spent about 2 hours on it when we got the coin and that was the part we were missing as well. I'm sure that's where a lot of people get stuck. Just remember, everything you need to know is on the coin!! I still don't get it. Pls help me Quote Link to comment
+Team Bear-Cat Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 (edited) I recently got one of these coins and successfully decrypted it – after a pleasing amount of head-scratching – using an online simulator at https://cryptii.com/pipes/enigma-machine. "Of course I won't spoil the fun," but here are a few tips on exactly how to use this software which were not initially clear to me. The "Enigma M3" default setting corresponds to the Naval M2114 used on this coin. This simulator has three groups of settings: "rotor," "position," and "ring." As expected, "rotor" is the rotor selection for each of the three slots in the machine. What this simulator calls "position" is what the coin calls "outer ring" and corresponds to what letters the operator would see. What this simulator calls "ring" is what the coin calls "inner ring" and corresponds to the position of the plastic disc inside, known only to the officer. (Not all available simulators have all eight rotors which were used with this machine – this one does.) Even twelve years later – "thanks for the geo-challenge!" Edited September 4, 2020 by Team Bear-Cat 1 2 Quote Link to comment
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