Ultimate Evil Wicked Crypto Revisited

[pootie49]

hi

pizarro, de soto, magellan
spanish explorers
magellan was born portugese.
they might all have been portugese...i think only magellan though.

[admin2]

Four out of four!

[admin2]

Clue: Three of a kind

eviqqjsxtv, baqqzmgaqq, vfomsdzfy

[bansaisequoia]

Wow, definitely a tough one, but I may have stumbled upon the second word. There is definitely very little repetition of letters. Other than the second word, the remaining vowels seem to have been used only twice in one case, but only once for the other three. Am I on the right track?

[pootie49]

???

bansai this ones all yours.
i cannot suss it at all.

[admin2]

Wow, I finally found one to stump pootie! :-)

Vowels are somewhat scarce in these. I think, though, that if you stumbled on the 2nd word, there would be no question that you'd immediately uncover the 1st and the 3rd.

If you just put your thinking hats on I'm sure you'll sort them out...

[pootie49]

Holy Cow??

Its welsh isnt it?? LOL
no idea. i have no idea at all.
ok you found one thats too hard.
unless bansai is just sitting on it and wont let us know??
i assumed welsh for the repetiton of the q's.
i dont like doing this but...

[admin2]

Its welsh isnt it??

These are English names from a very well known piece of English literature.

They are three of a kind ... out of a total of four.

[pootie49]

Aaaackkkkkkarghhhhhh

arghhhh ackkkk
what is it??????
american english or english english literature?
four what?? hobbits, daughters of king lear, riders of the apocalypse, er the beatles?? lol
I know we have to wait longer but its driving me cuckoo.

[pootie49]

Thank you Guest

Guest got it.

Phew.

Great Job Guest...now register and come play, lol.

[admin2]

Well done Guest! :-)

[bansaisequoia]

Um...

Um... So what was the solution?

[pootie49]

hi sorry

Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw

GUEST figured it out.
from harry potter, english literature.
(puts away dickens and shakespeare, lol)

i was also digging deep into cs lewis, and tolkein. thought it might be the four kings of something in somehere part of middlearth.
however admin you got me re interested in a midsummers night dream. they got lots of odd names there. <good grammar. LOL
good wicked crypto. thanks for the challenge.

[bansaisequoia]

Yeah, I just figured it out myself. I couldn't remember where I'd heard the literary reference, "Hufflepuff," so I looked it up online and from there found the other two, which I'd never heard of. I've never read any of those Harry Potter books nor seen any of those Harry Potter movies.

[admin2]

Crypto: leeway, months, uphill

Clue: The missing pieces add up to 429.