Unanswered Questions
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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'...
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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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Decrypting the Key: "Phage is Spreading.."
I've been trying to solve this puzzle called "Phage is Spreading.."
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Determining the meaning of a challenge coin
I saw this rather cool looking challenge coin the other day, and I was wondering what the associated binary on the back of it means, as it isn't standard ASCII.
In plaintext:
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Edge Removal Game
There is a complete undirected graph with n nodes (n > 1). Alice and Bob take turns removing one edge from the graph, with Alice going first. The player whose move causes any node to become ...
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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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Grandma's keynote
Found this note which is addressed
To my grandma, in her chest
Since she's passed now, here's my quest..
What tickled her interest?
And who invited her as guest?
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The Snake and the Hunter
The Snake and the Hunter is a game for two players who play in two rounds interchanging the roles of snake and hunter. The game is played in a rectangular grid of points, say 6×6. In both rounds the ...
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I'm a number with a special product, so name me when you think you've got it
In the blocks that come before,
their special product tells us more.
To guess my scheme you'll need calculation,
but only little tests of recreation.
Each block contains atoms strong as Thor,
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Can you find the cipher that I used?
I have encoded a phrase, using a cipher that I invented. But I don't want you to decode it, rather I want you to figure out how my cipher works.
This is the phrase that I encrypted
Find the ...
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Cipher seen while walking
I was walking and saw this cipher does any one know how to crack it?
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A funny looking cipher puzzle
What secrets does this jester hold? Hints are found down the road.
A hint, or rather, that what is held transcribed:
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A Glutton and a Split Check
N, T, A, B are arbitrary constants in this problem. I have only definitively solved the N=1 subproblem, so, if the general problem cannot be solved, I will be satisfied to mark as accepted a solution ...
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Signatures of serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards?
This is from a real-life murder-mystery. In 2009 Edward Wayne Edwards was arrested and convicted of five murders, following a tip-off from his daughter April. Former detective John A. Cameron ...
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