December 2021
Puzzle 5 Nihilist Solution: Ciphertext: 88,35,39,36,48,48,38,55,34,68 Cipher Key: Gimme Moore - 43,22,14,14,34,14,13,13,12,34 Polybius Key: From Russia With Love Plaintext: No Time To Die - 45,13,25,22,14,34,25,42,22,34 More about the cipher can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilist_cipher If you want to play with the cipher, you can do so at dcode: https://www.dcode.fr/nihilist-cipher |
August 2021
Puzzle 4 Playfair Cipher Key: Shaken not stirred Solution: Th en am es Bo nd, Ja me sB on dx = The names Bond, James Bond |
May 2021
Puzzle 3 Cipher Key: Polybius Solution: Historians should never report what they cannot verify through interviews. |
February 2021
Puzzle 2 - Masonic or PigPen cipher, which is a pictographic cipher.
November 2020
Puzzle 1
"If he had anything confidential to say, he wrote it in cipher, that is, by so changing the order of the letters of the alphabet, that not a word could be made out. If anyone wishes to decipher these, and get at their meaning, he must substitute the fourth letter of the alphabet, namely D, for A, and so with the others."
— Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar 56