# Runes of the Ancient
We are given an image of a punchcard with some marks.Observing the punchcard, each column contains number 0-9, and are marked with 1 digits.Every third column is marked with 1, so I assumed that the columns are grouped in 3.
`134147129 135192 148129137149134153129148133162 163 137147147133167 137162 163 208 `
Each number most likely resembles a character.Because we know the flag starts with "flag{", I decided to substitute all the number with the corresponding characters.
`134 f147 (l)129 a 135 g192 148 (m)129 a137 i149 (n)134 f153 (r)129 a148 (m)133 e162 163 137 i147 (l)147 (l)133 e167 137 i162 163 208 `
Note that some characters are in parentheses. I put them in parentheses because "l" is supposed to be 140, but the number skipped to 147, so I was unsure if I was correct. However, the word "mainframe" came up, which made me confident that what we have know is most likely correct (searching "punchcard mainframe" on google resulted me some results, so these 2 terms has correlation, so I was confident I was in the right direction)
However, this is where I got stuck.I wasn't sure what the rest of the number could be (162, 163, 167)
After working on other challenges, I came back to this challenge.Because there are 2 occurence of the sequence 162 163, I decided to find 2 consecutive characters after "n" that fits.From this, I was able to conclude that 162 corresponds to "s" and 163 to "t".I was also able to get 167 "x" from this.
The resulting flag is
`flag{mainframestillexist}`