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Hello other tintin fans! last night I wrote a code you can solve using a tintin book. You need to use an english translation, so I hope that you all have the same version as I do. I will not tell you which book, as that is part of the code. the code reads as follows:
First, there is the number 4. Once the meaning of 4 is deciphered, there are these to deal with:
53,4,1,1/39,1,3,1/26,13,6,3/2,4,1,1/62,1,8,2/28,6,1,1/
52,5,1,5/10,11,1,6/48,4,4,1/12,1,1,1/49,3,3,2/58,2,1,4/
40,6,8,4/45,7,1,3/47,8,2,2/36,2,4,1/51,11,6,1,/1,2,12,1

Lastly, use this code to reorganize the resulting jumble of letters:
18,10,8,16,13,6,15,4,9,5,12,17,11,14,7,2,3,1

Actually, that appears to be a cipher, see this for more info.

CC

Da Tintin code

I guess it is a cipher. Sorry

Should be "Cigars of the Pharaoh". First the number 4 is of course the fourth album. Then the four digits part tell which page, frame, word and letter. Lastly the sequence tell in which order the letters should come.

No big deal, just a pet peeve of mine:)

Captain Chester

P.S. maybe Broken Ear, the fourth color album?

No it isn't Broken ear, checked the letters an it is Cigars.

The book is Cigars, but can't anyone tell me what the message says?

'cigars of the beeper' first told about a code, then asserted it was rather a cipher.
Here's an article that explains the difference:
- a code usually transmits entire words (exception the Morse 'code').
- a cipher transmits separate letters.
see http://home.earthlink.net/~nbrass1/1enigma.htm

The 18 series of digits given above all feature 4 items, that might stand for page #, panel #, word # and letter #.
I don't have the book to hand, but maybe someone could try and use this method?

About the origin of the word 'cipher':
In Sanskrit, the zero was called "sunya" or "empty".
The Arabs translated the Indian* into the Arabic equivalent "sifr" = "nothing", "zero" (from the verb ÅŸafira = "it was empty"), and "cifr gave the word "cipher", which in former times meant "zero".
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher

Interestingly, 'Tintin' means "nothing" in Herge's language (French), as already discussed here on various threads...

I already told the message says Cigars of the Pharaoh, I've used the formula described by myself and Yamilah. Come on, don't say that it is wrong.

18=C, 10=I, 8=G, 16=A, 13=R, 6=S, 15=O, 4=F, 9=T, 5=H, 12=E, 17=P, 11=H, 14=A, 7=R, 2=A, 3=O, 1=H

I will admit that your name gave me a clue to the answer, when I first saw the 4 mentioned I directly thought of Cigars and your name confirmed it. Not so hard really. I did only check cigarso and h, but I hardly think that it could be anything else.