Backward Riddle

[Shannon]

The answer is Stephen King. How?


03041877030418810304188109191881030418170304182503 041861041
51865030418370304184103041817030418250304185303041 857030418
45030418490304184104041841030418530304185703041829 03041837

[Shannon]

Nothing?

[stroppygoblin]

I've been working on it in my spare time - It's a beauty Shannon I'll give you that.

so far I have tried a number of things (Character substitution, Ascii values, removing repeated sequences, etc) I am assuming the gap between the long number and the second number on each line is significant? normally this kind of code indicates that the smaller number is a key to the larger, but that may not be the case in this instance.

030418 repeats frequently, again this may be padding to disguise the actual values - not sure (if so there is a potential mistake as the last line has a '0404184')

I've probably reached the limits on my ways of coming at this, so a clue may be in order here.

[Shannon]

The forum puts the gap there. No significance.

Alright let's see ... a clue ... Hmmm ... I'll change it up a bit (any gaps/spaces are not significant):

0304187703041881.0304188109191881.0304181703041825 .0304186104151865.0304183703041841.030418170304182 5.0304185303041857.0304184503041849.03041841040418 41.0304185303041857.0304182903041837

And the clue is ... you (Mr. Stroppy Goblin) might not be familiar with the key to this one.

[Shannon]

Grrrrr, nothing!?

[Joe315]

I've been trying to figure this out too. All I have is that 03041 is the zip code for New Derry, NH. You're clue makes me think this has to do with dates of some kind that are in the US format, as apposed to Stroppy's UK format. Otherwise I am stumped.

[Shannon]

03041877-03041881
03041881-09191881
03041817-03041825
03041861-04151865
03041837-03041841
03041817-03041825
03041853-03041857
03041845-03041849
03041841-04041841
03041853-03041857
03041829-03041837

[Shannon]

There's quite a bit more to go on the riddle, so I guess I'll push it along. The above are date ranges.

[Joe315]

Each date range represents the term of a U.S. president. The number of each president (19th president, etc) represents a letter in the alphabet, which spells out Stephen King.

[Shannon]

Joe315 wins!

Thank God that one's over, lol

[stroppygoblin]

Dammit! I had that from the start but couldn't get the dates to match up. Why? because I forgot the US has different date formats to the UK so I was searching for an event that occurred on 3rd April 1877 and not 4th March 1877!!

Aaargghhhh!!!!!

[Jon]

Christ!

I had the presidential term thing figured out but I thought it spelled "I can't breath."
The apostrophe was a bitch!