Ginter Code Solution Part 6

Mike: So at this point we know the order of the cards, and we can account for 99 of the 100. The next thing Nick and I looked for was a message. Using the Squared "L" in each column, we picked out the letter from each card that fell in that position.

Column#1
Background Red
Border Left

Wells ("L" on 3rd position)
Bruce
Lidge
Thome
Giles
Utley
Peavy
Garza
Maine
Braun
Lopez

Nick: I saw "dollar" and thought hmmm...could this be prize money :)
Mike: Would help to recover hundreds spent on Ginter cards!

Column#2
Background Red
Border: Top

Kinsler ("L" on 5th position)
Grienke
Fielder
Hoffman
Santana
Ordonez
Pedroia
Iwamura
Quentin
Berkman
Soriano

Column #3
Background Red
BorderRight

Uggla ("L" on 4th position)
Parra
Myers
Weeks
Crisp
Cantu
Upton
Votto
Meche
Abreu
Olsen


Column #4
Background Blue
Border Left


Ankiel ("L" on 6th position) Posada
Aviles
Greene
Martin
Ichiro
Lackey
Doumit
Church
Harang
Matsui

Column #5
Background Blue
Border Top

Reynolds ("L" on 6th position)
Hochevar
Zambrano
Kotchman
Saunders
Youkilis
Jurrjens
Hamilton
Pettitte
Guerrero
Renteria



Column #6
Background Blue
Border Right

Loney ("L" on 1st position)
Eaton
Soria
Ortiz
Reyes
Danks
Ellis
Rolen
Blake
Young
Snell


Column #7
Background Green
Border Left

Miller ("L" on 4th position)
Smoltz
Burnes
Lowrie
Kuroda
Willis
Jacobs
Duncan
Helton
Maholm
Suppan


Column #8
Background Green
Border Top

Hill ("L" in 3rd position)
Cain
Cruz
Kemp
Webb
Drew
Mora
Cust
Zito
Span
Hart


Column #9
Background Green
Border Right

Liriano ("L" in 1st position)
Theriot
Tejada
Weaver
Ibanez
Teahan
Hunter
Furcal
Lannan
Atkins
Gordon

Here is where the fun begins! A couple points about what to do next:

• Imagine each three colors sets as three separate "pictures" Red, Blue, the Green




• When you read the letters, read clockwise starting in the lower left corner of the left border up around the top border and down the right border side of the each color set.

If you write it down correctly her is what you will see...

PAIRALLODULLNDMANOUTMALRRKSTOTHEEIGHTYONES

LLVAMELETTERLESORDERBYSPOTCOLORNLLLIUMBERSTARLTTWITHFLAG

Mike: If you look at what you read above, you will spot certain words, but there appears to be a lot of gibberish as well. Then a revelation hit me, and I emailed Nick "I know what it says", almost within seconds he responded "me too!" Here is the deal. We figured out that in order for this gibberish to make sense, you must eliminate the letters associated with the primer card, as well as the mate card (where the entire border side matches). He is what it looks like when you eliminate the 18 cards...(eliminate letters highlighted in red)

PAIRALLODULLNDMANOUTMALRRKSTOTHEEIGHTYONES

LLVAMELETTERLESORDERBYSPOTCOLORNLLLIUMBERSTARLTTWITHFLAG

This would leave:

PAIRALLODDMANOUTMARKSTOTHEEIGHTYONESAMELETTERSORDERBYSPOTCOLOR

NUMBERSTARTWITHFLAG

or...

Pair all odd man out marks to the eighty one same letters, order by spot, color, number. start with flag!

So now you know who the "Odd Man Out" is. The only yellow background card of the lot, and the 100th card of the code, Mr. Pat Neshek! Also notice that the bottom left symbol is a flag...BINGO!

So here ya go! Is this the answer? NO! We still have more cracking to do (but getting close!)