Journal 29 Hints & Tips

The last one eludes me. Obviously I have the keywords, but the numbers under don't make much sense. I tried concatenating the two keywords and then using the numbers as a positional lookup, but that led to 2 nonsense words.

thank you for your help

who you really want to thank for their help...

you are not alone in this

the keys for 118 and 119 are a 5-letter word and a 7-letter word. they don’t seem to have obvious meaning together (one latin/spanish, one english slang). the letters of the two words can be matched to the 5- and 7-digit numbers below so there is a 1:1 correspondence between letters and numbers. the repeat letters in the words are also repeat digits in the numbers. so i have a total of 9 letter substitutions for numbers 1-9. but what numbers to decode? i tried the black holes of 118 and the answer to 119 without any luck.

and the clues about thanking for help and not being alone leave me perplexed. help from crowdfunding? readers? editors? spouses? not alone in a crowd? a group? a family? i’ve tried various versions as answers. nothing has worked and i can’t see a connection with the keys and numbers...

thank your team

I have the keys, I've assigned numbers to the letters. But I can't seem to figure out what the answer is supposed to be.

read the text before puzzle 64 again