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Puzzling Asked on January 17, 2021

A friend of mine thent me thith note. He’th a little bit thy and often preferth to thend a metthage rather than thay thomething in perthon, even if it’th quite thort, and thometimeth amutheth himthelf by putting it in the form of a putthle. I honethtly have no idea what to make of thith one though, although from what he thaid when he gave it to me, I think one of the lineth on the left ith encrypted quite thimply, uthing a different technique to the otherth. I’ve pothted it here, in cathe any of the brilliant putthlerth on thith thite can help me with it. What ith he trying to thay?


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Edit: Sincere apologies, there was a slight error in the original image. I’ve updated the image. It will not change the solution; there was a word misspelled at one point – you could certainly solve the puzzle using the original image, and if anyone is partway through the solution, they should be able easily to modify it. The corrected text can be found here.


Hint: I’m not sure whether anyone’s working on this, and if so where they’re stuck, so I’ll begin with a basic hint in case anyone wants to give it a crack…

Feel free to post partial answers, as there’s a few little steps to this puzzle.


Hint 2: Since there was some interest in this puzzle, but there’s been no progress in about a month, I thought I’d post a little hint in case anyone is still interested…

One Answer

A partial answer but with excellent progress, thanks in part to insights from @LukasRotter


Line 1:

ANRIVPBAPYHQVATVANHTHENGVBATRAHSYRPGORSBERZRNAFGBPBAPRNYJBEQF

This line of text is encoded using:

and decodes as:

What is this? Well, it's...

Line 2:

BZGRQTRWHOFXCREGMFRMWXKZKWFYIIVIUIBOJVII [KRC]

This line of the puzzle is encoded using the cipher indicated by decoding line 1, so now we need to identify a key. In my first answer posting I initially posted some findings of my early attempts to find such a thing. One of my observations enabled @LukasRotter to make a breakthrough in comments (reproduced here with thanks):

What is this? Well, it's...

Line 3:

QEDKEGKDVTAJFEDYMMXNLJEMKSWCNAPG [NJV]

This decodes as follows:

What is this? Yep, you guessed it! It's...

Line 4:

FEEJHTGXXPWRMUZRDLBETPVLWNLEXILBLRIELGQMANOF [CRT]

This decodes in similar fashion:

By now, you should recognise what you're looking at here...

Line 5:

CRBWVIJJNIKTRVQXUEWWSYPKULXHGACRXGHADDEDWJCYPKILMIUNXL [???]

Decode this line as per the others...

And again, this is...

Next steps:

The first thing to notice is doubtless that there is a connection between all the keywords we have discovered so far (even mentioned at one point!). Each of our keywords...

So what do we with this knowledge? A couple of thoughts:

A little more thought required, but possibly almost there...

Answered by Stiv on January 17, 2021

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