Find the Word

[jsmcmullen92]

00001011/01011100 | C
00001011/01010001 | 4
00000110/00001101 | 2
00001010/01011011 | C
00000001/00001000 | 7
00001011/00001001 | B
00001000/01001111 | 6
00001011/01100001 | 8

Hope this is not too easy or too terribly hard. Thought about making it a little harder.
Enjoy
Josh

[jsmcmullen92]

Nothing? Not even a guess?

[Xerrand]

:lol: I genuinely assumed this was a wind up! I certainly can't see any words at all.

[stroppygoblin]

yay! new puzzle!!!

Ok, only had a few minutes, but here are my thoughts so far..

The numbers on the left are clearly Binary and I'm guessing the last column is possibly Hex, so converting all to decimal we get:

11/92 |12
11/81 |04
06/13 |02
10/91 |12
01/08 |07
11/09 |11
08/79 |06
06/03 |08

My next thought was to convert the decimal to ASCII values but that's clearly wrong as lower numbers are control codes (Line feed, Carriage return, etc)
They also look like dates - 12th Nov 1992, 4th Nov 1981, 2nd June 2013, etc which may tie up to specific King books - not had chance to correlate yet.

Will spend more time later...

(Loving this :) )

[stroppygoblin]

Ok books (kinda) Match up to years (assuming Month?year of release date, so:

11/92 - Gerald's Game (but was released in may '92 not Nov - hmm)
11/81 - Cujo
06/13 - Joyland (possibly Dr Sleep, but Joyland is listed as June)
10/91 - Needful Things
01/08 - Duma Key
11/09 - Under The Dome
08/79 - The Dead Zone
06/02 - Lots of Viking Dark Towers released so 'The Dark Tower...'

So then I tried taking the Hex value and counting letters in the title - so 11/92 | C(12) 12th letter of Gerald's Game. = M (or E if you don't count the apostrophe)
Then you get:
11/81 |4 = O
06/13 |2 = O (or R)
10/91 |C (12) = N (ooh - thats spells M-O-O-N :evil: maybe we are on to something here...)
01/08 |7 = E
11/09 |B (11) = D
08/79 |6 = E
06/03 |8 = K

MOONEDEK! MORNEDEK? Hmm doesn't look good.... :pullhair:

[jsmcmullen92]

Simon you are on the path of the beam. (and I just realized that I messed up the last one... updated the original post.)
Hint 1
Of course Simon gets the computer nerd one
think zero-width space

[stroppygoblin]

hmm that changes the last one to 11/97 |08

The only book I know that was released in 97 is Wizard and Glass so assuming we dont count spaces then we now have:

11/92 | C(12) = E
11/81 |4 = O
06/13 |2 = O
10/91 |C (12) = G
01/08 |7 = Y
11/09 |B (11) = M
08/79 |6 = A
11/97 |8 = N

Obviously the first one is incorrect, so double checking the Books released date, we find Dolores Claiborne was released in November 92!

12th Letter of Dolores Claiborne = B! so the answer is:

BOOGYMAN

[stroppygoblin]

I hid all my workings out in a spoilers so others can try!

Great Puzzle Josh! :clap:

[jsmcmullen92]

hmm that changes the last one to 11/97 |08

The only book I know that was released in 97 is Wizard and Glass so assuming we dont count spaces then we now have:

11/92 | C(12) = E
11/81 |4 = O
06/13 |2 = O
10/91 |C (12) = G
01/08 |7 = Y
11/09 |B (11) = M
08/79 |6 = A
11/97 |8 = N

Obviously the first one is incorrect, so double checking the Books released date, we find Dolores Claiborne was released in November 92!

12th Letter of Dolores Claiborne = B! so the answer is:

BOOGYMAN

Very nice and congrats!!! You get the goose. I was going to rearrange the so the final puzzle was an anagram that you then had to solve but I didn't want to make it too difficult for the first one..

[stroppygoblin]

hmm that changes the last one to 11/97 |08

The only book I know that was released in 97 is Wizard and Glass so assuming we dont count spaces then we now have:

11/92 | C(12) = E
11/81 |4 = O
06/13 |2 = O
10/91 |C (12) = G
01/08 |7 = Y
11/09 |B (11) = M
08/79 |6 = A
11/97 |8 = N

Obviously the first one is incorrect, so double checking the Books released date, we find Dolores Claiborne was released in November 92!

12th Letter of Dolores Claiborne = B! so the answer is:

BOOGYMAN

Very nice and congrats!!! You get the goose. I was going to rearrange the so the final puzzle was an anagram that you then had to solve but I didn't want to make it too difficult for the first one..

If it didnt make an obvious word, an anagram would have been my next likely route anyhoo :)

... Got me thinking now, been a while since I posted a puzzle..... :evil:

[Girlystevedave]

:lol: I genuinely assumed this was a wind up! I certainly can't see any words at all.

Me neither. I tried. The original post says "I hope this is not too easy..." and that made me feel like an idiot. :lol:

[jsmcmullen92]

Haha I figured it was very easy to spot where to start like Simon did and then once there shouldn't take much. Simon did exactly what I thought would happen.

[RainInSpain]

Yeah, recognizing binary numbers was the (relatively) easy part. The rest....not so much! :lol: