# Help me with this bar code puzzle **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 17, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-bar-code-puzzle/441631 "2008-03-17T07:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-bar-code-puzzle/441631/1 "2008-03-17T07:10:28Z")
[Bar code](http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/824/imagephpds2.png) The only clues are Octal embedded in C39. And The barcode can be decoded using the number 69. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-bar-code-puzzle/441631/2 "2008-03-17T07:22:46Z")
It is from a game that I am playing and may contain unsutible writen ocntent. I dobt to bad though. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-bar-code-puzzle/441631/3 "2008-03-17T08:01:00Z")
Wow! It is late my typing is gettgin bad. That and reading bar codes all night. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tom\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_P)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-bar-code-puzzle/441631/4 "2008-03-17T13:33:28Z")
The barcode is in Code 39 (lacking the start and stop symbols) and reads: 16514215514115115404015. Converted from octal to decimal: 135112972642800768080 I have no idea what the last clue means in this context.