So I was wondering how you would solve that.
If you were to assume that 24811812513198111524 was a series of English letters (since we know that the user speaks English) then you’d still have the problem of the decimal system. Or, to put it another way, how would you know when something is 1, 1 or 11 (one and one or eleven).
There are small things, like very few English words have two as right next to each other, but that’s also assuming that they chose to have real words in their username. Or that they didn’t have a foreign name like Aabria
But I would start with the 8s, 9s and 5s, and maybe 4s. We know that they are either the last digit or the whole number. (I.E. 8 is either 8, or 18)
For example, that first 8 has to be an H, neither 8 nor 81 are a valid entry.
[24] 8 [118] [125] [13] [19] 8 [1115] [24]
The brackets representing that we don’t know if it’s 24 or 2,4, etc.
If we go with the double a thing from before, and replace what we know, we get this:
[24] H A R [125] [13] [19] H [1115] [24]
We also know that the second to last grouping has an A, but we don’t know where.
Next, let’s do 125 and 13. It can either be
I probably should have come the 19 here as well, but it was always a lot and I couldn’t compute more in my head. Lucky that I chose the end of the word (or hindsight bias) but either way, I’d be fairly confident that it’s Harlem, because that’s the only recognizable word there.
[24] H A R L E M [19] H [1115] [24]
19 is either S or A I, and since I can’t think of a single word that starts with AIH, it me probably S. We don’t know if it’s Harlems H or Harlem Sh, but it’s a step closer.
[24] H A R L E M S H [1115] [24]
Since we know one 1 of the 1115 is an A, let’s start there. Once again, this is assuming there are no double a’s. It can either be
Or K O, now that I think about it.
But since no English word has HK right next to eachother, it has to be AKE.
That just leaves us with the 24s at the end and the beginning. So it’s either
And while I love the idea of bad dragons in Harlem, it’s probably the x. We’re all familiar with internet naming stuff.
Solvable with a little luck.