I recently came across a strange YouTube channel from 2014 called Arcus Grid, containing a puzzle which has seemingly never been solved. It's been posted to Reddit a couple of times, but nobody has ever really gotten anywhere with it. I haven't had any luck decoding it, or even identifying what kind of cipher it is. I would greatly appreciate any guidance on cipher identification (or even better, a solution).
The channel consists of 96 6-second videos, like this one. Here's a GIF of what the videos look like.
There are always six squares that show up, in any of 7 colors (think ROYGBIV).
In each video, there is also Morse code playing in the background. The Morse code always has the following format:
- There are 18 characters per video,
- The Morse code is split into 6 groups of 3 characters
- The first character is always a letter A-F
- The second character is always a number 1-6
- The third character is always one of ROYGBIV
For example, in the first video, it is C5V A3O E3O E5R B4G F6B.
My first thought was that it could be a Polybius cipher, though that has only produced gibberish. Turning attention to the Morse, it seems like it HAS to be coordinates to the grid, along with an associated color. Yet, I cannot figure out how to integrate the Morse with the grid. Could the visuals be a key for the Morse? I'm quite stumped.
Here are transcriptions for the first 10 videos on the channel: Visuals (with A-F being the x-coordinate left to right and 1-6 being the y-coordinate top-to-bottom):
- A6Y F5B F2B B3R D5G E2I
- F5B E3B D6Y A4V D6G A1Y
- B6I E5V F1O F5G C5B D1R
- E6O A1Y A6Y C5B D3V F3R
- D6G B5Y D1I B2R B6I F5G
- C5B F2G A5Y D4I B3V B2O
- D2Y A2B A6G F5B D6R E2I
- A4O A3Y D6R D1V F3B C6G
- F5B C3Y D5I A1Y B1Y B1G
- D3V B6R A3Y E2O E3G E6I
Morse:
- C5V A3O E3O E5R B4G F6B
- A3O D2Y E1G F6G E1B C3G
- C6O F5R B1Y D3B A3V A6R
- A6O C3G C5V A1I D4Y D4R
- E1R C4G A6R B3I C6O D3B
- A5Y E3O C5G B4V A4I E4Y
- B3R B4G B5B A3O E4G D3V
- E3G B1B E4G F3R D4G D1O
- A3O D6V A3R C3G F1Y F5O
- D4Y C3Y B1B E5O E3R A2Y
A full transcription is available here.