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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Elementary, my dear …
My list for today
Iodine-Sulfur+Americium-Scandium:Phosphorus
Iodine-Titanium+Molybdenum+Thorium+Yttrium-Lithium:Helium
Praseodymium+Oxygen+Vanadium+Erbium+Boron+Sulfur-Lithium:Aluminum
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CASCADE -> SCASCCA, then PROBLEM ->? [on hold]
In a certain code, CASCADE is written as SCASCCA. How is PROBLEM written in that code?
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Absent Employee's Password
You are the boss at an engineering firm.
Recently a rather eccentric employee named Mr. Robemer made an abrupt exit when you accused him of devoting his worktime to his hobbies. Robemer stormed out ...
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Musical Chairs Cipher: Double Trouble
This question is a continuation of the first question: Musical Chairs Cipher.
The basic rules:
Six children -- Alice, Ben, Carl, Denise, Eddie, and Flo -- are playing a game of musical chairs in ...
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Musical Chairs Cipher: Intermediate
This question is a continuation of the first question: Musical Chairs Cipher.
The basic rules:
Six children -- Alice, Ben, Carl, Denise, Eddie, and Flo -- are playing a game of musical chairs in ...
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A Salute to Poetry
In honor of National Poetry Day (which happens to be March 21st - go figure), I have crafted a puzzle which I hope will do a small bit of justice to this day.
Carefully hidden in the four sections ...
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Baby don't hurt me no more
You've been taken captive by a spy organization who seems convinced you're an agent for the other side. You've already spent a miserable day of questioning and torture and have no wish to spend ...
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Musical Chairs Cipher
Six children -- Alice, Ben, Carl, Denise, Eddie, and Flo -- are playing a game of musical chairs in class. On each of the five chairs is written a seven letter word.
The children start out in ...
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Cricket or Cipher?
Congrats Bass for finding the answer of Find this Cricket terminology
Find the names of three Cricket stadiums from the below codes:
1.
dy30q7i
2.
23jgo36
3.
5y39fqo
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Where is Steve?
Steve is a modern painter. He and his brother live in England. Today his brother found him missing. He searched everywhere, but couldn't find Steve. But in Steve's room, he found the below painting.
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Find my name from this list of symbols
From the symbols below, find my name?
# ! # @ * @ & \$ ^ # * # \$ #
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Hiker's Cabin Mystery | Pt. IX
You are starting to feel a strange affinity towards this mysterious hiker as you head over to
(Answer to Part VIII)
as per his instruction.
As you walk inside, you notice a man standing at the ...
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Some music sheet to decode
Find the word that was encoded in this music sheet:
(No instrument is required)
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A married couple
Disclaimer: This puzzle is from a university in Israel, computer science. Its in a real document written in Hebrew so no point in posting it. There is no link to it on the internet.
There is a couple ...
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Hiker's Cabin Mystery | Pt. VIII
Part VII is still up for grabs!
At last! You've solved the mystery of the cards! Now that you've gotten into the hiker's computer in the hotel room, it's time to explore!
Good news! There is only ...
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Beginner CryptoGram - Msgs From Your Puzzle Community
I like simple ciphers. Here is one, no tricks, alpha-numeric substitutions only:
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Find the celestial body
Last week, a group of 5 astronauts went on a space-tour. They accidentally got crashed on a celestial body in space. Luckily no one was harmed! They were amazed to see some highly intelligent aliens ...
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Hiker's Cabin Mystery | Pt. VI
The only part that doesn't have an answer yet is Part II! Chop, chop!
You finally are able to get out of the airport after quickly solving the mystery. You are becoming quite the detective! Only...
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Find the cipher used
Each of the following lines were said by various famous personalities. Each line corresponds to one person. There is no relation between these lines. After obtaining the names of these people, A 6 ...
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Hiker's Cabin Mystery | Pt. III
See Part I | See Part II < needs answer!!
Finally, you've gained access to his files... but the filenames are all encrypted! Oh, no!
You only have one chance to open the files! Which one should ...
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The “Jumbled” Cipher
The elusive "Jumbled" cipher has stumped scientists and cryptographers alike...
Not really, but it will stump you soon...
The Jumbled Cipher is a mysterious text cipher that puts text into an ...
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Mutineer's Treasure
Background:
Your team has recovered a sunken ship.
In the hold there is a small room that appears it was intended as a smuggler's room.
In the smuggler's hold are three decayed corpses a bunch of ...
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Is it a word? Really?
Grandpa says:
show that the following number equals a 5 letter word with multiple meanings
(one of them not good)
I I I X I I X I I X I I I X I I X I I
I was wondering if that silly thing ...
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This is my cipher
Solve the following:
Ujlw oz vi ovdwui, Ncep hs ob xuuo, T'yz miamy hfid ujlw, Htu etr sqp eiic.
Hint:
Hint 2:
Hint 2a:
Hint 2b:
Hint 2c:
Hint 2d:
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Hiker's Cabin Mystery
See Part II | See Part III
On a hiking trip, you find a piece of paper on the desk of an abandoned cabin:
Also on this desk is an old-fashioned computer that is, unfortunately, password-protected. ...
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The Librarian's Labyrinth - Part III
"This Library is HUGE!," You say aloud. You hear your voice echoing through the halls and nothing else. How could this be? Who comes here? You start examining the books on the shelves. It's just your ...
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Just a Simple Number Crossword
I made a small number crossword for my mathletes club that I thought I'd share. It's not too hard, I think it's just right for a coffee break. Have fun!
(Edit: No answer has a leading zero)
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History Calls - Twice!
You'd send a letter to me, but I'm not quite what you think.
You'd send a letter in me, but only if you didn't know me.
I was a gem in my day for being both bold and precise.
I stood ...
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A letter with no particular backstory
So, I was walking down the street when this paper materialized just in front of me, as if from thin air. I'm not sure if I can decipher it, maybe you can? It also smelled like fish a bit.
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A fun series of riddles!
All of the clues will lead up to the key for a Vigenere Cypher:
eutnn wo vvsf.
Clue 1 (from www.riddles.com)
I'm by nature solitary, scarred by spear and wounded by sword, weary of battle. I ...
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Riddles and ciphers / All good ways to flex the mind / Can you solve my task?
I have arrived new / Here with ciphers for your eyes. / Can you solve this task?
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Cyrus' Adventure (Part 7)
The wall opened. Cyrus and T.E.D. got out of the room. Suddenly, the passageway started collapsing! Cyrus was terrified. T.E.D. grabbed Cyrus and quickly rolled out of the passageway. They got into ...
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Can you solve this? Cipher I found
Here is the cipher you need to solve, it is an actual English text:
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Find the result of this dual key cipher
I came up with a neat little cipher that I'm calling the dual key cipher. The basic premise is that there are two cipher keys that, when used together can decode the cipher text against a given ...
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Find My Mission For Me
I am a spy for the CIA. Since I am in a hostile territory, my next mission was given to me in a very coded manner.
Today, while playing chess in the local park a briefcase landed on my head. Feeling ...
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What words Atbash plus Caesar cipher to other words? [closed]
If you Atbash cipher plus Caesar cipher after, you get a new set of ciphers, and I tried 4-letter words for Atbash plus Caesar shift 1 and I got:
cams <-> yaoi
ghat <-> Utah
haji <-> tars
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An Aklahp Mystery
You are a detective in the city of Aklahp, which has had some problems with crime in the past. It used to be just simple burglary or breaking an entering, but things have been getting worse recently. ...
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Detention in 1997
As summer break is coming up, you have started to misbehave in school, getting sent to detention quite often.
On June 20th, something interesting happened, and made detention a little more fun. You ...
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How to decipher
I received the following challenge as a homework problem. Not much info is provided with it, except for the word Decrypt! at the end.
This problem is online on a password protected school site. So I ...
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Cyrus' Adventure (Part 6)
The robot's program started running. It twisted its head, torso, arms and legs. After a few minutes, it stopped twisting and vocalized a few sentences,
"Hello master. I am T.E.D. and I am here to ...
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Unknown Cipher? [closed]
gX18gICAgIF9fXyAgX18gICAgICBfXyAgIF9fICAgX18gICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICBfX18gICBfXyAgIF9fICANCi8gX2AgLyAgXCAgICAgfCAgLyAgXCAgICB8ICBcIC8gIFwgfF9fKSAgL1wgICB8XC98IHwgfFwgfCB8X18gICB8X18pIC8gX2AgDQpcX18+...
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Coordinated efforts
I was showing off my knowledge of obscure geography trivia to my father. He admitted he'd never remember all those details, but insisted that there was a certain other topic where nobody could ever ...
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Invade the Pyramid if you Dare
Before you lies a pyramid, with a giant statue blocking the entrance.
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A strange message full of dice came in my mail
So I got a package today that contained the strangest contents. It was a set of dice, each of them numbered in one of the corners. Arranged, this is what numbers or characters displayed on each dice,
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How to decrypt simple binary code to alphabet
Part of an alphabet is given by the code:
This code is used by Fred to send a message home to his mum. She receives the following signal which includes a parity check digit on each word.
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Part of a challenge, from a group of adults, who break ciphers
I am part of a group of adults, a cipher club who like to decode random ciphers, from texts to symbols and other things. We were presented with a set of 5 ciphered text, and we have managed to crack 3 ...
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What in this world is she trying to say?
I happened to meet one of my friends after about a couple of years. Obviously we both were very happy, but still, she didn't leave her habit of challenging me to decipher what she was saying. I ...
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Where are they being held?
In my dream, some People asked me for help. They said I should wake up. So I woke up and there was this letter.
Dear Percy
We got caught and only you can help us. You've 60 minutes (try it ...
