Questions tagged [unsolved-mysteries]
Current unsolved real-world puzzle
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Strange Unsolved Cipher on Youtube from 2014
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 ...
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Looking to solve a puzzle from Ben Drowned called "The Glitch Cipher"
This cipher is from Arc 2 of Ben Drowned, and was visible for only a few minutes on the homepage on October 6, 2010. It has not yet been solved. Boxentriq's Cipher Identifier says the cipher is likely ...
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Call of Duty cipher: "TheGiant"
I need help figuring out this cipher from Call of Duty Black Ops III. It's been on going for 8 years and no one has been able to solve it. Image
TheGiant
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A quantum physics puzzle [closed]
A new mathematical approach to quantum physics via graphs was found recently, see this paper for more details. It particular, it refers to
papers by Anton Zeilinger, a Nobel laureate in physics of ...
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Noita Eye Glyphs
A puzzle found hidden between the background layers of the computer game Noita. The puzzle has not been solved since it was added to the game in October of 2020.
It is made of thousands of eye images, ...
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My dead mom left behind some number code
Background: I actually do not know the answer to this puzzle, but can answer any questions you may have. My mom who is now deceased had this series of numbers written in her notebook, that don't seem ...
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"The Batman" puzzle: rataalada.com
I just saw the movie and went home to check whether the website www.rataalada.com actually exists or not, and surprisingly, it does! Judging by the news articles I found while searching, it's been ...
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Were the Decipher II and Decipher III puzzles solved, and if so when and by whom?
The Decipher jigsaw was a relatively famous puzzle released in the early 80s, promising a $100,000 dollar prize to those that could solve it. After two years with no winners, the creator, Warren ...
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Cryptogram with one frequent letter and other letters random
I arrived at this ciphertext as a result of a particular decryption step from the famous unsolved "Kryptos 4" cipher. It has a very unusual letter distribution:
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Make Some Homophonous Noise [closed]
How many homophones can be used in a single sentence?
Rules:
Sentences must be English. (no foreign words, like see & si (si is "yes", in Spanish)
Sentences can not be a setup to list ...
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Is there a code in this painting?
This was posted in a Facebook group yesterday. It’s also made the rounds on Reddit but all of the commentary seems like scattershot speculation so far. From the post:
This is a painting done my ...
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Translate this "especially important" note from "War with the Newts"
Language-identification questions are off-topic on linguistics.stackexchange.com, or I would have posted this over there. Since it's also a puzzle, I figure puzzling.stackexchange might appreciate it.
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Providence Pentominoes Puzzle By Andrew Bradburn (Jigsaw)
I came across this apparently well known cryptic crossword with a twist but was unable to solve it. I also haven't been able to find a solution anywhere online so I was wondering if anyone here could ...
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April Fool's Enigma
Every year, a famous French youtuber (e-penser) presents his enigma of April Fool, but this year, targeting specifically a group of people who have done particularly well last year, he raised the ...
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Never Completed Game
The seventeenth of the primes.
Its twin is twentynine.
Po.
Let’s drive.
Bye, Alfonsín.
Add seven triangular.
Sweet.
It named the Valley.
This riddle is taken from https://www.nevercompletedgame.com/
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Crack the pigeon code
Can you crack this message? It was discovered in a chimney in 2012 attached to a carrier pigeon and was most likely sent during the D-day invasions. The GCHQ was not able to crack it, even after ...
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Why did I create this table? Counting letter frequencies maybe
This is a real puzzle, in the sense that I'm puzzled by what I've found.
I stumbled upon a google sheet in my google drive.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/...
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MIT 1995 Puzzle Hunt: Unsolved "Connecticut Suite" Puzzle
Many of the solutions to the 1995 MIT Puzzle Hunt have been lost. Several groups have been able to solve most of them, but #23 Connecticut Suite remains elusive.
Here is a reproduction of the puzzle....
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What are these encrypted Starfield tweets saying?
There are a lot of rumors about Bethesda Softworks and/or Bethesda Game Studios announcing a new game at E3 this year, or even on May 14th (source). A key in this mystery is the trademark 'Starfield'. ...
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The Fenn Treasure Hunt (REAL!)
I heard of this riddle and wanted to pass it on to see if you expert puzzlers could solve it! These are clues for real treasure hidden somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.
As I have gone alone in there
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Bishop Wilberforce's Unsolved Riddle
Thought you guys might enjoy this -- an unsolved riddle from the 1800s. Story and contents of puzzle have been copy pasted from here:
Bishop Samuel (“Soapy Sam”) Wilberforce, who once famously ...
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Code Cracking from an old home computer magazine: what cipher was used?
This is a code from an old home computer magazine. The cipher used for it is still unknown, although they gave the solution:
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Late 18th/early 19th century numbers grid
I was researching an historical figure on the Isle of Man, Capt George Quayle (b.1751 - d.1835), and in amongst the museum's papers was this numbers grid which was part of his effects. The museum ...
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Need help with a cipher: "poems" with capital letters
I am trying to figure out a cipher I think I found in a book from 1982 and it's a 36 year old mystery we are trying to solve (I will reveal the book if this turns out to be something so everyone can ...
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The 10,958 Problem
Here is the task:
Write down 10958 using all 1-9 digits in ascending order and only one time.
You are allowed to:
1) group digits into numbers
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Ricky McCormick's Notes
On June 30 1999, Ricky McCormick was found dead in an isolated area, 15 miles away from his home. He didn't own a car, and the area was not subjected to public transport so it is a mystery how he got ...
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This image contains a "Great Discovery"
The Puzzle:
Source material taken from here
As discussed on Numberphile, here is John Herschel's doodle, sent to his friend Charles Babbage.
John H.
John Herschel was an English polymath, ...
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In the constituency of the ancient hyperbolical belligerents: wordplay riddle from mid-1800's
Just found this text on a sheet of paper in my dad's desk, along with his many attempts at a solution. He never solved it, and I can't either.
In the constituency of the ancient hyperbolical ...
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Unsolved Mysteries: D'Agapeyeff cipher
The D'Agapeyeff cipher is an as-yet unbroken cipher that appears in the first edition of "Codes and Ciphers", an elementary book on cryptography published by the cryptographer Alexander D'Agapeyeff in ...
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Unsolved Mysteries: Kryptos
This is the second in a series of Unsolved Mysteries posts. These posts explore current unsolved real-world puzzles. Since these have been unsolved for years, it's uncertain whether anyone on on ...
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The Beale Papers
The background to this one's given here.
NB: These may not be a genuine cryptograms (current thinking is that these are gibberish); but I though it interesting to share these in case they're genuine/...
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Unsolved Mysteries: Magic Square of Squares
This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of Unsolved Mysteries posts.
Note that this puzzle has no known solution, nor any proof that a solution is impossible. We will see how ...
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A good puzzle is a double-edged sword
A rare double-edged sword is currently on loan from the British Museum to the Magna Carta exhibition.
The sword itself is described as likely made in Germany around 1250-1330 and includes the ...
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