xkcd

by **Scallel** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:39 am UTC

Over on the minecraft forums we have a vengeful god, TheMonkey1000, who was kind enough to give us a lovely little puzzle. Its apparently a cipher problem, that I am unable to solve. So here it is:

HLFGS
HZGVOORGV
WRHS

by **tomtom2357** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:23 am UTC

I would guess that H is some common letter that appears at the beginning of words (ex. e, t, or a) then try to work from there. Try some things with that, and see if it works.

by **jestingrabbit** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:48 am UTC

Scallel wrote:Over on the minecraft forums we have a vengeful god, TheMonkey1000, who was kind enough to give us a lovely little puzzle. Its apparently a cipher problem, that I am unable to solve. So here it is:

HLFGS
HZGVOORGV
WRHS

There are autosolvers for this class of problems.

Spoiler:

Dunno if the actual answer is in that list, but perhaps no. 3?

by **Scallel** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:42 am UTC

South Satellite Dish was indeed correct and proved to be useful. Ready for the next piece?

Jydm d j[[g
m[[;
j['thu
j[ypjku

by **jestingrabbit** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 3:55 am UTC

Spoiler:

maybe one of these, the first few look promising. Anyway, try http://www.blisstonia.com/software/WebD ... /index.php with letters in the place of symbols.

by **tomtom2357** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:15 pm UTC

The problem with that website is that it won't always have the right answer, I tried a few coded sentences and it did not come up with the right answer.

by **Trebla** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:57 pm UTC

tomtom2357 wrote:The problem with that website is that it won't always have the right answer, I tried a few coded sentences and it did not come up with the right answer.

It quite likely doesn't have many proper names (such as places that may be present in minecraft). It also may assume that there's no punctuation substitution, the presence of punctuation characters in the encoded version may lead one to believe that here is punctuation encoded. Try guessing where punctuation may be and drop a letter or two.

The format of the second puzzle (assuming it's a straight cryptogram) makes it unclear if the top line is one word and the spaces are substitutes for a letter, or if the top line is 3 words.

Also, it appears the linked site is only a substitution cryptogram solver and doesn't attempt to detect other encryption methods. The puzzles appear to be straight substitution cyphers, though, so you're probably safe with it.

by **Jokertyf** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:58 am UTC

Guys, it's

Spoiler:

you move the characters two to the left

xkcd

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