[Enigmaster]

Hmm, the name is very interesting. It was just last week that the 12 labours of hercules were compared to a perplexian equivelent, and now we're seeing it again.
But a thirteenth labour...? I dunno, maybe my research just isn't up to scratch.

[cassandra]

More large gray letter parts (see the purple 'in other words' or whatever it is) - perhaps soon we'll be able to get another message via the card vertices lining up?

[Atrophied]

I've transcribed the code for you.

Enjoy.

Code:

69 A9 3A FD C5 AD 43 8F 48 53 56 0F 1D 35 3A 8C 5C 44 A6 90 1B 76 46 C7 65 53 C8 A1 E4 B0 40 41 85 2B B7 81 59 E0 D2 39 35 A3 27 3B C3 AF 2E 2E 2F 3B 3B 0B 01 FE 67 51 FE 73 A8 E9 36 0A 93 85 55 2E 9A 4A AE C9 84 CF 18 F8 AB 4D B5 6D 45 07 4E 17 23 A5 7C F1 E8 BD A5 8A BD C8 FE FC DA 2B 6B 71 76 88 1F C0 D1 95 61 8D DB DC D8 17 2E D7 1D D5 F7 AB AD AB 3E 52 2A 9A 9B BA 37 FE 80 FB 53 95 C9 1D A2 22 AE 72 85 4A 43 1F 7C 2A BF 2A 79 3A 15 03 8D F2 5B 43 98 90 6D CC A0 BB E2 A9 6A 52 D1 CB 2B 83 DE D8 BF EC 20 11 70 71 AA 22

[Reason]

I didn't mean that we would take the date literally, I was thinking along the lines they we had to decifer it first.

[BennyH]

On the 64th of December? Unless the dates are Perplexian, or some such silliness...

I don't believe that the CRP would want us to spend two years on a card...so maybe it appears to be an advanced cipher, when in fact that isn't how we should be looking at it?

I say this only because I am a maths retard, and don't want to be left out.

[Reason]

When Fi saw me get this one out the pack she told me it should be solved 'sooner rather than later'. Its lost on me I'm afraid though. Six digits at the top seem like they could be refering to a date, possible live meet or broadcast?

[SteveC]

The code is almost certainly RC5-64... Unless someone has a key (which I might, I'll update soon), it took the folks at www.distributed.net a few years to do this one.

[Reason]

[PUZZLE] #251 - Silver - The Thirteenth Labour