Tip of the spear


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Saturday, March 7, 2015
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Stella posted a new weekly challenge:

Ok, the description tells us to form a vignere key (Blaise Vignere...) from the names of the week's solutions and to apply it to the letters on the spear. Straightforward solve:

Decoded letters from spear:

MPFYQOUWAFQPWY

Names from week:

Milton Hershey
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Diana Spencer
Ganesh Dutt
Clara Brown
The first letter gives us: "mcdgc".
Using those two sequences on the rumkin vignere decoder (http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere.php) results in:
"ANCSOCSTUDENTS".
Stella is probably refering to the fundraiser where the students collected money for the cahokia mounds:
 
Solution redirects to:

 

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