Does anybody like cryptograms?
I like cryptograms, a lot. I would like to see this thread on, for a long time. We’ll see. A cryptogram is a letter substitution code. There are no hints, no peeks. Your knowledge of the english language is all the help you get. The first person to solve the code gets to post the next one.
Example: wssho would be doors, if s were used in place of o. h in place of r, w in place of d and o in place of s. One sentence is used, actual words, no abbreviations. All words must be english. Letters substitute the same throughout the sentence, but of course each new sentence has it’s own substitutions.
Here is the first coded sentence:
Pqwew’m bv otmsbwmm asrw mqvc otmsbwmm.
When someone posts the correct solution, the person who wrote the coded sentence must let them know, and then they can post the next one.
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There’s no business like show business.
XIP PMLTU OWLA ZMXZIPD XIP FHLN
There’s no business like show business.
The early bird catches the worm.
Do we need to use the same letter replacement method to come up with our code?
@uberbatman Ha! I started before you, and was afraid you’d beat me to it. I think we’ll have to make up new letter replacements, or it won’t be challenging. :)
I think that saying that popped into my head for a reason. ;)
What i mean is do I need to encrypt it using just letter replacement or can I use a different encryption technique as long as it follows simple rules?
@uberbatman Typically, cryptograms are simple letter replacement (just not sequentially, like A=1, B=2 or whatever). I think if you want to stray from that, you should probably ask the OP. Which, I guess you are… I’ll just be quiet now.
Gee wilikers that was fast. Please don’t make it more difficult than regular simple substitution, at least until we find out how many are interested. I don’t want to limit players because they were put off by new rules. The accepted standard for crypto puzzles are simple letter substitution. If you want to mathematical, I think that would be a new thread.
It’s going to continue going pretty fast, letter sub cyptos are pretty easy to solve.
This one doesn’t follow your rules but I’m going to just leave it here anyway, I’ll be back later when this thread gets a bit more complicated(not that mine is really all that hard to solve either.)
iopsacuetweisnnispecotahdrthretyecsr
I love cryptograms. Not bragging, but it took me about 10 seconds to decode “There’s no business like show business.” The letter patterns, plus the apostrophe, make that one relatively easy to solve.
@uberbatman Solution: “I used to encrypt notes with Caesar’s cipher.”
@PhiNotPi yea, they’re actually a lot easier than letter subs I think but I always enjoyed the whole process of making them, especially when teachers intercepted them and just looked at it dumbfounded.
Hello, I’m DXS
Qswx sj xliwi ger fi wspzih fc nywx pssomrk ex xli pirkxl sj iegl asvh. Lstijyppc xlmw mwr’x sri sj xliq :P
@uberbatman I’m sorry but the answer was actually Hello, I’m jca! (ooooooooh)
Most of these can be solved by just looking at the length of each word. Hopefully this isn’t one. :L
Then how about this?:
DMALTZFSQWTFCQSQDGQZLJAQFSQKIZQIMD.
@dxs Currently working on a solution, but I would like to tell you that ciphertexts that short are often very difficult to solve. The unicity distance for simple substitution ciphers is 28. What this means is that puzzles with fewer than 28 characters may simply be unsolvable (multiple correct answers). Your puzzle has 34 characters.
@PhiNotPi I thought it would be easier than that. How many words are 34 letters long?
@dxs superfragilisticexpialidocious
I think @PhiNotPi was thinking it was like my first one where I just pushed everything together instead of having it all spaced out
@uberbatman Can’t be that… both T and F would have to represent R.
I made the assumption that you had simply taken the spaces out of a sentence, given the context of the conversation. Removing spaces is often “common practice.”
Also, the answer is “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” @uberbatman accidentally left out the “cali” but I’m sure he meant to include it.
@glacial is right. The joke is over. The word is DMALTZFSQWTFCQSQDGQZLJAQFSQKIZQIMD. Each letter represents itself. You are all wrong and I am right. The end. Court dismissed. Bring in the dancing lobsters.
Lobster quadrille?
‘Ybhi dkqmmqe hwt yal imqyag ysxli tqt egkl hwt eqcdml qw yal bhdl:
No takers? Here’s a clue: Go ask Alice!
No proper nouns, but there are some words specific to this author and this work. It is a well-known work.
note the apostrophe at the beginning of the first word!
‘Twas _______ and the s__ t__ t__es did ___e and ______ in the wa_e
@dxs Is that a hint, or is that as far as you’ve gotten?
Psst! Lewis Carrol!l
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
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