Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hmmm, that confirms my suspicions, you added the extra red tiles, and no-one has deciphered your message. Would you now call the addition of the extra red tiles a success?

Only if you have a tenuous grasp of logic. The fact that nobody has tried doesn't equate to it being impossible, it just means that nobody has tried.

I think clarifying the role of the extra red tiles is the key.

I clarified very explicitly about six times (inlcuding the last two posts), you simply ignore it or feverse it each time. That's why I'm saying it is you. You can't seem to get over the idea, which was your own, that...well, I can't say it, or you'll quote it out of context. It just comes down to me saying that A is always B, which you consistently interpret to mean that B is also always A, which is not true.

Where is the error?

It's kind of clever, because you managed to make up the case, then stated that the case couldn't be made up. You stated that I created the rules a couple days ago, then go on to state that the rules "can't be deduced by anyone looking at the message". So...how did I deduce the rules a few days ago if nobody can do so by looking at the message? Did I not figure them out from looking at the message, and if so, then where did I get them from? They do happen to be sufficient for interpreting the message, which you don't dispute (a good thing, because they happen to be sufficient), and you say that I didn't have them before a few days ago, so where did they come from?

Too late, I have already established that the main role of the red tiles is to act as a character delimiter and you agreed. =)

I don't have a problem with you saying that they are mainly used as a character delimiter. By number or frequency, that is clearly true. The issue I have is with you then going on to assume that that that is the SOLE role they serve, which is not true.

I merely noticed the obvious error you inserted into your binary pattern, then you tried to cover it up by inventing some rules.

But you said that nobody could do that, so I must not have done that. How could I be doing something that you have proven I could not have done.

You can use two half tiles to make everything line up neatly, and I am sure that you can work out how to insert a gap without generating a tripping hazard.

As for the first one, rather than the hassle of cutting two tiles in half (and having to decide whether that should be a gray or tan tile that I cut, or half of each), couldn't I just use a tile of a different color? As for inserting a gap...no, I don't believe I can work that out. How about a suggestion?