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Can You Break My Code??

Postby Masato » Sat Dec 14, 2013 12:50 pm

Hey all

Here is a message written in a code I invented when I was a kid (no joke)

Can you decipher it?

It IS possible, and TOTALLY not as hard as you think.

Those who solve it will be evident by their posts - !

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Postby Masato » Sat Dec 14, 2013 4:06 pm

PS: Artists will likely do better than non-artists.

Smoking a gigantic spliff might also help
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Postby Empty Emp » Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:43 pm

It's boobs right? -

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Postby Masato » Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:04 pm

shh - don't give it away!!!

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Postby Luigi » Sat Dec 14, 2013 9:23 pm

Okay Im guessing since you expect us to solve it and the word breaks are clear its going to be a monoalphabetic single substitution cypher. I'll see what I can do with it!
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Postby Masato » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:23 pm

Emp got it - way to go Emp!

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Postby Luigi » Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:21 pm

The unusual letter distribution of the 6th word should be enough to crack the whole thing. I doubt there are more than 50 English words with that distribution. It might take some time, but I'm pretty sure I can get this.

Edit: here is some quick rough work I've done
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Postby Luigi » Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:24 pm

Also Masato, some letters look almost identical but slightly different and there are more than 26 characters. Are you using an "upper case-lower case" kind of system or are the letters just stylized differently?
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Postby Luigi » Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:57 pm

Okay so word 6 has the uncommon distribution pattern 12321456 and word 11 has only 3 letters with a 121 distribution pattern. The same letter also appears twice in each word in a known distribution. Assuming the plain text is in English, there are no spelling errors and words 6 and 11 are not names or extremely rare words, I have narrowed it down to 6 possible ways to translate these words. If all my assumptions are correct I should have this deciphered soon.

Edit: So I applied all 6 to the text and all the results seemed very unlikely.
For reference here are the combinations I tried:

Dividers - dad/dud
Leveling - lol
Minimals - mom/mum
Sinister - sos
Taxation - tut
Werewolf - wow
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Postby Masato » Sun Dec 15, 2013 12:49 am

lol - you're not even close dude


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