Contest officially is over. there will be a new one during the month of September. you will not have to solve a hard cryptic puizzle this time, but do something more TF2 skill related! More details this weekend! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's been solved (a bit different than expected). Congratulations to Penguin for winning! http://steamcommunity.com/id/penguiin/ Answer: A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. How do you do it? It was encrypted twice. The first step was to perform a modulo analysis. Using Excel, you performed a mod of the number (position from start + level) if it was above 50. You do this for every max's head. The result is 50 unique numbers from 1-50. Those numbers tell you were the max's heads ned to be rearranged. Once the max's heads have been rearranged, you decrypted the Vigenere cypher using "scorpion" as the key. If you want to see my Excel file on how I did it, look at my spreadsheet below: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApHnYvVrpRZSdFZia0pSVHhwNl9IcTBhUnZDQ1JzYWc&hl=en#gid=2 Thanks to everyone for playing!