Questions tagged [cipher]
A cipher is a simple method of modifying messages to make them unreadable, but still possible to recover. Common ciphers are Caesar, Vigenere, Atbash, and several types of substitution cipher. Other ciphers include polynomial ciphers such as Playfair, Foursquare, etc.
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Help With Dan Brown's Unsolved Puzzle
Dan Brown has an unsolved message on his website https://danbrown.com/
There are hidden symbols on 5 JPG images and 5 PNG images that overlay the JPGs.
JPG Images: int1.bg.jpg, int2.bg.jpg, int3.bg....
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What's up with these words, eh?
hello there = llehht oere
Voldemort's Wrath = dloVrome s'ttarWh
This is weird, right? = sihT si riewr ,dthgi?
Just figure out what is happening to these words. = tsuJgif eru tuotahw si ppahnineot ...
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Decipher the language
An alien planet called EMJ-26 has an alphabet that has letters switched around. Their language is identical to english but they use different letters.
Here are the names of some countries on earth ...
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Wait a minute…Where did he go? (part 1)
A secret person hid three rolls of paper under my bed
First roll: you'll find my country only if you solve this puzzle '3rd of 2, 1st of 2, 2nd of 6, 3rd of 2, 1st of 3, 3rd of 2'
Second roll: you'll ...
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The physicist's puzzle
An unknown physic1st left behind this puzzle with his belongin9s and he can no longer Be found. Here is the puzzle he left with u5 before disappEaring.
Can you figure who this mysterious physicist was ...
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The Case of the Poisoned Poet
I was in my office, trying to officiate a disagreement between Misters Jack Daniels and Jim Beam, when the dame walked in. She wore a slinky dress and glasses so dark all I could see in them was the ...
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It's your turn now!
What is the simple rule behind these three relations below?
$F$ $\rightarrow$ $C$ :: $R$ $\rightarrow$ $I$ $\rightarrow$ $\sqrt{F}$ ::
$IA$ $\rightarrow$ $D$
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Where does my friend live? 5
Other questions in this series can be found here.
One of my friends, Com, has sent me a code to show where he lives:
ARIA, ---, ---, ESIA, ---, KAAN, KYAN, LAIA, ---, MOVA, RUIA, TAAN, TUAN, UKNE, --...
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What are these holes in my Connect Wall?
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
"Why on earth are there blank spaces in your connect wall?"
"In my defense, you just asked me to make categories ...
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The Painted Barcode
Someone spilled paint on what looks to be some sort of barcode, although I am not entirely sure that's what it is.
Can you figure out what the original message may have been?
Hint 1
Hint 2
Hint 3
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A (cipher?) puzzle in a YouTube video description
So, by chance I stumbled upon this video: MASTER BOOT RECORD - C:\DEFRAG that contains the following puzzle in the video description:
066 097 099 107 119 097 114 100 032 097 110 100 032 102 111 114 ...
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Simple letter subs with a twist!
Here's your typical letter substitution puzzle that you can solve, no tricks.
But even so, there's a twist! Decipher this and find out the hidden message!
xhtm tm ytxeanyyq nofxhea wdccye mf jerfje ...
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Try to decipher this puzzle; It's cipher is historical
A individual known for Polygraphiae...
Gpqg atxr bqocq, ucl tzv rip gkmv iu ydw ynpa nkdk?
Gvxi jamy dj przcl Gagmguon sd droabp, jxughv rge cgvx!
Luvl fycw!
If too hard, ask for a clue and you will ...
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Rune Ciphertext (Presumably multi-enciphered )
Here is a cryptogram:
Note: this is not, very very hard. But still, it is not very very easy, I would want to say with a few clues it's more easy than hard:
Clues:
It can be simple substitution.
It ...
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Crypted Gobbledygook, Decrypted Obvious
When it is crypted, it is gobbledygook, when it is decrypted everyone who reads it here understands!
zorrqpxj gzu
fuebmtvbkexjt gzu
baq
Happing decoding :)
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Masyu puzzle with secret code
What secret code is hidden in this masyu puzzle?
Note: The regions marked with x are not to be drawn
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Who fulfills the logic?
Imagine you are on a spaceship. To activate this machine, you have to enter a code with these given clues.
1110C1742
0110F1230
1001B1126
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You have to enter the fourth code using one of ...
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Pigpen cipher makes no sense
My father in law made a pig pen cipher. Gave me a coding matrix and I know the message is spelled backwards but I still canāt figure it out. Can someone help?
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A Word + Number Puzzle
This is a code:
27 15 68 28 29 16 said that
'53 95 62 18 65 92 22 19 7 8 74 102 90 49.'
What is the secret behind?
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Tubariphobia - The fear of pickles
There are many topics that polarize. But not a single topic comes close to the one and only age-old question that some claim is the root of all division between people: "Are pickles disgusting or ...
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Kaboom-y numbers!
Here is a new type of puzzle poem I made. Enjoy!
Note: The title is named like that for a reason.
I have a number in mind, it is super cool,
But there's something you need to know, or you will find ...
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An eye for style
My colour-blind friend and I play in the same Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Our party had just died in a horrendously managed battle against a dracolisk (seriously, don't ask!) and so we were back to ...
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Following Rotting Links
Here's some examples of rotting links. Why are they rotting, and what links them?
Lebanon - ROT -> Slovenia
Monaco - ROT -> Slovenia
European Union - ROT -> Slovenia - ROT -> Antarctica
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There is a poem hidden in this puzzle. Can you solve it?
ŠÓŠ“ ÓŠ² aŃĢÓ ŃÉŅÓŠ·, Š½ÓŃĢŠ½ ÓŠ² ÓŃĢŠ»Š“,
ŠÓ§Š“ ÓŃĢŠ²ÓŃ aŃĢÓ ŃÉŃŠ»ÓŅ£ Ń
Š¹uŠ¼ÓŠ½ ŃŠµĢŃ,
ŠÓ„Š½iŅ« Ń
uŠ· iŃÉŠ½Š» Š»Ó§ Š²Ģi Ń
ÓŃĢŠ»Š“
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A bird-brained cipher
Today my partner, an avid ornithologist who I swear spends his whole day looking at codes and tables online, left me this cryptic clue when I asked where he had been all day. He complained about a ...
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Can you help to secure the sky?
You sit in an airplane high up in the sky, happy to be able to travel again. All of the sudden the man next to you dies. Don't panic! You see pen and paper on the tiny desk in front of him. There is a ...
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Dashed number cipher
74393-493-71335-34393-1-83457102-377-13-57111-40129-3447-1-00-420-50371335-1-93057104-377-13-207-0340-737
Disclaimer: This cipher is not mine, but it was interesting and I managed to solve it. Credit:...
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New word from a rotation function
In the Caesar cipher a word is encoded by rotating the letters in the alphabet a given number of times, $N<26$. A word is the smallest sequence of phonemes that can be uttered in isolation with ...
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Can you provide a hint on how to solve this Hex Cube puzzle?
I've been tackling this puzzle named "Hex Cube" which comes with the instructions "Can you decipher the message? You should be able to if you go back to basics and use a little bit of ...
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Cryptic images have been posted around University of Central Florida campus. Can you help crack the cipher?
Recently there have been sightings of images duct-taped to various poles and such, reminiscent of a large house with windows within the UCF campus. On closer inspection, there is obviously a cryptic ...
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Help me with my friends code?
My friend has asked me to decrypt his code but I havenāt been given any clues and I was looking to see if any one could help me crack it. The code is: āaĢāĀŖ56āaĢaĢĆāaĢāĀŖ56āaĢaĢĆaĢĆ45āaĢOĢĀ½Ā«2aĢĆ45āaĢOĢĀ½...
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Always remember this one thing
After a particularly rough day, Ann went to her abuela for advice. Being rather cryptic, her grandmother provided her this picture and said, "The blocks are always happy, because they remember ...
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Covert Conversation - A North Daniels' Puzzle
It's very important to keep your login details secure, which might entail not writing it down, encrypting them, or using a password manager. What you should not do is save them on some random USB and ...
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Can you get to the final message?
I am unsure of the difficulty of this puzzle, but feel free to give it a try
My prefix is almost dissolved
My infix is an array
My suffix forms nouns of action
I am the key
t nwl i queyh v
Since it'...
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Sorry, I'm new. to this SE
spoil the unlukcy number for this text
fbeel, V'z arj fb gvuf jvyy or fchre rm.
3 > 4 and
4 > 3
^\w|[A-Z]|[^w](?=i) is the whole clue minus a letter.
Find it ...
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Playing with a chess cipher
Alice and Bob both love encryption, and Alice loves to play chess. Unfortunately, Bob isn't very good at chess, so he doesn't think it's very fair to have to play the game for real. So instead of ...
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Can you help me recover this message?
So, in May 2018, a friend and I were sitting in study hall, bored. Both of us had finished our homework early, and we were trading ciphers over email. I sent something that I had encoded, and neither ...
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A weird chess game
Hello everyone, and welcome back to one really crazy game that was played during the lunch break within a dutch prison. It's an inmate with the white pieces against ...
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This stylization needs a name!
Although I have been toying with this idea for a while, posting it in this form was inspired by @Stiv's "needs a name" puzzle series.
I didn't come up with this cipher, but I have never seen ...
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Find your way through the five rings
I am trapped in a cage full of animals and all exits have been sealed. At the end of a long path, there is a sealed six-foot iron gate with 5 rings as shown below. Each ring contains floating letters, ...
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Can you discover who I am?
I made my first puzzle for PSE!
The string below is an encryption for the enigma to be solved. In order to find the answer you must:
Discover what the dots and zeros translate to;
Find the answer to ...
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A Mathematical Cipher [cIosed]
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Not so Simple? Substitution Cipher
Once more the shores of the island of Pohnpei have been the scene of strange fogs, strange smells, and equally strange newly discovered carvings. The previous carvings have widely been thought to be ...
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binary to be decoded (HARDER)
Below is binary but its translated from something else
i dont think a binary to text editor would work
00110001 00110010 00110100 00100000 00110001 00110101 00110000 00100000 00110001 00110101 ...
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To be decoded (BINARY)
Look at this image using a pixel editor. Black is 0, white is 1 and
red is end of statement
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Simple? Substitution Cipher
The following was carved into the cliffs along one shore on the island of Pohnpei after a strange fog had engulfed the island. Even stranger sounds emanated from the fog before it dissipated slightly ...
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Decrypt the Killer's Letters
You work at a police department, and are currently investigating a serial killer who is taunting police with encrypted letters. He has promised three extremely deadly attacks still to come, and has ...
