Riddle Me This!

Well, for the past week , Quah (Our retarded monitor, YEA!) had nothing to do, so he decided to riddle us with two puzzles he created himself (with some inspiration from scouting cryptography) and since then they were solved by our class people! Well, here are the methods in solving these puzzles.

PUZZLE 1

Method In Solving 

1. If a hint is presented, ALWAYS take care when observing its layout (direction, special symbols, etc)
2. Notice the numbers. Square root any of them, and you'll notice that it is an integer. This is taken from the hint where the arrow is pointing at the C which is squared.
3. Now, you will get numbers as follow,


 15.27.15.27 - 14.22.26.13.8 - 18 - 15.12.5.22 - 4.12.6 !!!

4.Now, note the hint again. The arrow is pointing towards the left, from C -> A. We need to convert these numbers into alphabets in order to make sense of it.

With this, since we are going backwards, we shall use the lower number line, going from Z to A,and we get;

L?L? MEANS I LOVE YOU!!!
But, there isnt any 27th aphabets, which was later rectified by quah as a mistake, and the number should have been

225.676.225.676 - 15.26.15.26 - LALA

PUZZLE 1 Answer : Lala means I love you!!!

PUZZLE 2

Method In Solving
1. Now, this one requires a more keen observation in finding the answer. Firstly, we have to realise what the lines mean. Looking closely, you can see that the | in front of each "symbol" has to be placed into the "symbol" to make a word. For example the 1st word,

We can see two |'s , marked with yellow. When they combine at the end of the symbols, marked at red, they form a word , shown -

Forming the word "An" . Doing this with the whole page and you will get;

An astronomer and a scientist
met in a pub one day. The
astronomer told the scientist
"Imagine a pluto Changed
place with the sun! The scientist
said "Yea, the Problem would be
the same as three days ago"
The astronomer proclaimed.
Yeah, but now Earth would be
three days away from origin!" The
limit will be twenty six only!"
Not if I have <.> ,but I have <.>
Bring it on ios I have <.> lives.
I'd chum you down <.> times!
Oh yea, Mr.<-> Thats Right Mr.
<.>. Id be asking to be <.> you
<.>son of <.> say that again and
i will .<.> you. <.> not with wy
<-> on me, you cant even .<.> me
with a <.> even if you had a.<.> to
.<.>? ME!!

Those <.> and <-> are the numbers with either a dot or a dash in front.

2. Now, we can analyse the hints given.
"Imagine a pluto changed place with the sun!"
Pluto, before being voted off the planet list, was the LAST large body object in orbit around the sun.
The sun, on the other hand, was the FIRST.
This tells you that the Alphabets are reversed (Last -> First)

"Yea, the problem would be the same as three days ago"
This problem (the riddle) was the same as the riddle given 3 days ago, (Riddle 1) in method of solving.

"Yeah, but now Earth would be three days away from origin!"
 The numbers would have to be altered by going back 3 spaces ( minus'ing 3 from the numbers gotten by the previous method) 

"The limit will be twenty six only!"
The limit of the alphabet is 26 and the count would have to restart from there afterward.

Notice that up to the twenty six, the numbers were SPELT but after that, they were WRITTEN AS NUMBERS.

Also, after that, the passage would not make sense, making it non-important.

3. Now, the numbers can be taken and written down in a straight line :-

441.484.9.100 - 441.121 - 225.81.144.225.324 - 289.225.100.100.225

Becoming
21.22.3.10 - 21.12 - 15.9.12.16 - 17.15.10.10.15

But we have to minus the numbers by 3

18.19.0.7 - 18.9 - 12.6.9.13 - 14.12.7.7.12
(0 goes around because the limit is 26.)
Now we use our translator to get

IHAT IR OURN MOTTO
....
Hmm...I'm not that good and I probably made some mistake somewhere, but it was supposed to read
What Is Our School Motto.


PUZZLE 2 Answer: Fortis Atque Fidelis (Strong and Faithful)

Peace Out!

JJS a.k.a Graphite!