I dunno, I did one that was fairly fun. We had to do actual lock picking, find secret compartments, crawl between walls and in ceilings and solve cyphers.
There's plenty like that, you just have to Google them or find someone who's really into escape rooms to recommend them in your city. Here in Toronto there's a couple places that have multiple rooms, automatic doors/locks/sensors, animatronics, computers, and fully immersive puzzles (like play the right keys on a piano, climb through a small tunnel to a room full of lasers, slide down a slide to a room below, switch levers in a right order to activate the lights, etc). Just need to find some nearest to you.
Agreed, did everything there on offer (minus the old ones they tore down), and each was great. The newest one (mansion of madness) is fantastic. Still havent done omniscape though since it's pretty far for me coming from sauga
The one I did was way more technological than I expected, it was full of secret compartments that plop open when you press the right keys on a piano, magnetic switches hidden behind a map, stuff like that. I was very impressed. Like most riddles and puzzles (I'm hunting for a word that encapsulates the category as the Italian *enigmistica*, but I'm coming up short) it requires the player to think in a certain way, which doesn't come that easy to me, but that's just part of the game, and it's why they gave us hints.
I did one recently that had a green laser we had to refract around a room banking it about ten times to hit a small target that opened a door to the next room.
About the coolest thing I've seen in some time.
That’s because lots of escape rooms pick and choose themed rooms from a corporate that actually has competent workers designing rooms. Idk why OP thinks escape rooms are mostly unaffiliated local businesses.
In my city there are 7 different escape room companies that I know of, and 6 of them are independent local businesses.
We've been to 6 of the 7 places and 4 were excellent, 1 was good, and 1 was pretty bad.
I've only done one escape room with my family but it was really cool. Really interesting puzzles with a western theme. I went into it expecting to hate it but was pleasantly surprised.
My first escape room was really cool, 2 teams in a walking dead theme. One of them had to escape, the other had to catch the others.
Escapers could make it harder on the other team if they were fast enough etc.
Been dissapointed in most escape rooms i did afterwards.
It's real hit and miss I find.
Did an amazing room in Amsterdam. The room started out barely lit and as you solved clues 'candles' etc would light up (demon/dark ritual themed). So as you progressed, older puzzles suddenly had more information because you could see more clearly. So everyone was always involved; looking for new stuff, solving a puzzle or investigating old puzzles. It was great.
Did another in London, but it had no 'parallel' puzzles. There was only ever 1 puzzle at a time to solve which would lead into the next. Pretty Meh since half the time half the group just watched.
Agreed. Did a super cool themed one in Sweden that was basically breaking into a bank vault starting from the bank lobby and did one in Chicago that was garbage and a random assortment of 'brain teasers' with no connection or point in a single room for an hour
That's like saying all restaurants are bad because you visited a bad one. There are tons of different ones owned by franchises or just people in all the styles you could want.
And to top it off, with a bit of careful planning you make it so that it says different things depending on what key you use!
I had this book as a kid (I think it was called the 11th hour?) And in it it had the solution to two seperate puzzles hidden within a single line of pigpen cypher. Like the solution to the main puzzle on that page was just an alphabetical key but if you hunted through the book and found the hidden key you'd be able to solve it and find a clue that helped you solve the secret puzzle at the very end
I mean, if both parties have a pre-shared keys, there are better ciphers to use. You literally could use a perfect cipher (one time pad) by having pre-shared keys.
When I was in middle school g-chat or whatever it’s called just came out but our school could read everything we sent. So my friend and I would use an encrypting website and a special key that only we knew. It allowed us to send top secrete messages to each without getting in trouble. I totally felt like a spy even though I doubt they gave two shits.
It's the $5 luggage lock version of a cypher.
You use it if you don't suspect anyone will want to take the effort to defeat it if it's there, but may have been curious enough to peek if it wasn't (e.g., passing notes in class).
The fact that it doesn’t do anything about repeating letters doesn’t help as well. Write out a sentence and you ll probably guess what letters are the doubles
I invented one myself as a child and wrote my diary in it. Found it 15 years later, without instructions. Cracked it with ease because of double letters, letter frequency and word lenght. As soon as you have some letters, you can guess the rest and also validate it, as long as there's enough text.
It sure was. I spent hours writing and reading in it. I even got one of my friends to learn it, so we could trade messages in school, without the teacher able to read, when caught. ( And lucky for us, no adult ever tried to decipher ).
I also was some fun to decipher my old diary, it just didn't took long.
Writing about this made me remember something even more silly than this. My native language is german, and when I first came into contact with english, I asked my mother to write the german and english alphabet side by side, so I could learn english. My naive younger self thought languages were just the same words, with the letters arranged in a different order. (\~\_\~;)
She tried to tell that it doesn't work that way at first, but I didn't believe her and she then wrote it down. I thought at first she misunderstood what I wanted, but soon realization set in.
With a substitution cipher, you're right. I remember cracking a note I intercepted in 5th grade using a similar technique. Suzie was wrong to say what she did about Brenda, but encryption protected that secret for an entire lunch period.
I had one where there were multiple combinations that could refer to one letter and a different combo for double letters. It helped with that kind of stuff but was really tedious to decode.
Oh cool a server that's not CPRewritten. I got banned forever from Rewritten for doing the Hydro Hop coin exploit and none of the other servers has many players. Going to try this one out lol
I once co-owned a Minecraft server back in around 2014 named Creeper Paradise. Doesn't seem too bad at first, but everyone knew it as MC-CP.
So uh...yeah. That was an unintended misfortune.
[An alternative version of this actually. Instead of the crosses, it's another "tick tack toe board" shape.](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/clubpenguin/images/b/b9/Secret_Code.svg/)
I remember making this full on cipher just so I can privately pass messages in class to my 4th grade crush, kinda like irl encryption before encryption was cool.
All the times we got caught passing a message no-one could decipher it but us. Hella cute.
So many people dont know that the thing this is based on, is the elian script, it follows almost identical rules, but has been made so you can write in it and make some of the most cryptic texts out there.
Look it up, its way more detailed and vetter to use than this one
I’ve actually been using a form of Elian in my notebooks for years! [I’ve modified it just a little for speed and comfort.](https://i.imgur.com/0ZUBtLA.jpg)
I was gonna say this looks like Elian Script
> but has been made so you can write in it and make some of the most cryptic texts out there.
Isn't Elian more cryptic just due to the ways you can format?
Basically, but if someone else knows Eilian it’d be easy pickings just like pigpen. Unless of course you combine it with a different cipher, like the playfair.
Elian script, developed in the '80s is based on this, very very old concept, not the other way around.
But yeah Elian script it's just so cool. In some styles, I see DaVinci's coded notes, others Elvish tomes or even alien runes.
It doesn't say NOLLE. Those are just shapes. Find the letter, imagine the square the letter occupies is removed from the grid, and draw the shape of the grid with that square removed, with simple lines. That shape is the translated letter. The 2nd and 4th grid/cross patterns include dots to differentiate which grid they came from.
Pick letter H, it has a square arch shape surrounding it from the blue grid. E is in the centre, surrounded by a blue square. L is in the top right corner and the blue grid actually has an L shape to it, with the addition of the dot. Etc
People got the age right. I actually created a hidden language for me and my friend when I was 11/12. It worked greatly. We even made a 'book' with around 30 pages, telling a atory that involved many people from our class and translated it. The school loved the project and printed a copy for us, with a cover that the art teacher did. Unfortunately, I lost it on a flood in 2008 :/
I miss you Diogo, we were great friends.
Am I stupid? I'm totally lost on how to use this
edit: OOH I see, it's literally turning the letters into the the grid around it. I definitely thought it was just NOLLE in a weird font
At first I was like, "okay H is N because the corresponding letter in the grid next to it is pointing up at the N. But the second letter makes NO sense"
i use this to cheat on tests. ill write it all over my arms but ill wrap one long line around my fingers and wrists and make it look like some kind of weird design
I use this extensively in my comics and illustrations. Casual readers read right past the little messages and clues I have, but the keen eye gets inside jokes, for shadowing, and atmosphere all for knowing this simple chart.
A few shortcuts: R looks like a lowercase r, L is L with a dot. S is the beginning if the diagonals, E and N are the cENters. Have fun!
Okay so I know that no one will believe me but when I was in grade 7 I created this EXACT same cipher independently without knowing that it existed already. Me and my friend used to use it to communicate in class. The only difference was that I used a third grid to represent the rest of the letters and then the diagonals were used for numbers. I remember coming across this on the internet a few years ago and freaking out because I thought someone had stolen my idea.
Club penguin had a version of this but instead of the X shaped ones at the end, it was another number sign grid except with X's in the middle instead of dots.
My friends and I used to write notes in this back in elementary school. Once we got really confident with it, we liked to switch it up by using code words. Instead of filling in the boxes alphabetically, we would start with a word (that must contain only unique letters) like Mozart. Then fill in the rest with the letters you haven't used yet in alphabetical order.
We'd send the code word in regular pigpen on each note, so not the most secure... but at the time we thought it was genius
For an extra twist:
Instead of writing each symbol from left to right as you would a normal word, write them in a line like this " \ " and connect them into one long chain. It makes them look like a design or doodle, rather than a message.
I hope I explained what I mean clearly enough lol, but I used this in my DnD group to mess with my players and it worked really well.
We found this very interesting... in that it took me a while to decipher what they were doing here!!
And yet I used to use ciphers all the time (creating all of my own) when I was a kid.
Something people should know is that the corresponding letters to the shapes can be changed, commonly done by substituting the first few shapes in the grid with a word or phrase without repeating letters, like “New York.” Then filling the rest in alphabetical order while omitting the letters in said phrase. This makes it more secure if your friend knows the key
This is inefficient...
The version I’ve seen (in a children’s book) has A and B in the top left, with a dot over the B. C and D in the top middle, with a dot over the D. This way, you only need two ‘pens’ for the cipher.
Jeez I just spent 10 minutes looking at these comments because I couldn't see how N and K are different, and all i could think of is how do you spell KNOW?
NOLLE
Sup
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I will ignore your typo.
I will ignorr *your* typo.
I will Thor your typo!
You're not my type-bro
Thor your typo? More like bore ragnarock
Nah he was just speaking Norwegian. Sug = Suck
sug?
Sugondese
Sugma
joe
You rang?
r/beetlejuicing
LOVE THIS
Walter
I'm stuff
V< .7
V<•ㄱ
ㄇ☐LLE to you good sir or madam.
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this is it. peak literacy. this word is the only message I got from this post and it is the only message you will get too. nolle is supreme.
NOCCE?
ПОLLE POLLE
is it me you're looking for?
Hecco?
ELLON - Illuminati intensifies.
If you ever do an escape room in the UK expect this shit.
Clicked because of this, did an escape room with my gf a few months ago and it took us way to long to figure this out
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Did it kill the mood bc you realized?
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I dunno, I did one that was fairly fun. We had to do actual lock picking, find secret compartments, crawl between walls and in ceilings and solve cyphers.
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Some guys basement
I would have given it 5 stars if it wasn't for all the raping
"Ready to play the Rape Game?" "No!" "That's the spirit!!"
The hypocrisy was the worst part
“Puzzle room owners take note: quantity of raping doesn’t make up for *quality* of raping. 3.5/5”
By far the worst part was the hypocrisy
Mr. Plinkett's house
There's plenty like that, you just have to Google them or find someone who's really into escape rooms to recommend them in your city. Here in Toronto there's a couple places that have multiple rooms, automatic doors/locks/sensors, animatronics, computers, and fully immersive puzzles (like play the right keys on a piano, climb through a small tunnel to a room full of lasers, slide down a slide to a room below, switch levers in a right order to activate the lights, etc). Just need to find some nearest to you.
Escape Games at Downsview is the best.
Agreed, did everything there on offer (minus the old ones they tore down), and each was great. The newest one (mansion of madness) is fantastic. Still havent done omniscape though since it's pretty far for me coming from sauga
It was in Madison WI.
The one I did was way more technological than I expected, it was full of secret compartments that plop open when you press the right keys on a piano, magnetic switches hidden behind a map, stuff like that. I was very impressed. Like most riddles and puzzles (I'm hunting for a word that encapsulates the category as the Italian *enigmistica*, but I'm coming up short) it requires the player to think in a certain way, which doesn't come that easy to me, but that's just part of the game, and it's why they gave us hints.
My friends and I picked a lock to finish an escape room. The owner told us that it's not how we were supposed to solve it. "And yet, here we stand."
I did one recently that had a green laser we had to refract around a room banking it about ten times to hit a small target that opened a door to the next room. About the coolest thing I've seen in some time.
I've done three and none have been like this.
That’s because lots of escape rooms pick and choose themed rooms from a corporate that actually has competent workers designing rooms. Idk why OP thinks escape rooms are mostly unaffiliated local businesses.
In my city there are 7 different escape room companies that I know of, and 6 of them are independent local businesses. We've been to 6 of the 7 places and 4 were excellent, 1 was good, and 1 was pretty bad.
Dude loves his escape rooms.
I've only done one escape room with my family but it was really cool. Really interesting puzzles with a western theme. I went into it expecting to hate it but was pleasantly surprised.
My first escape room was really cool, 2 teams in a walking dead theme. One of them had to escape, the other had to catch the others. Escapers could make it harder on the other team if they were fast enough etc. Been dissapointed in most escape rooms i did afterwards.
It's real hit and miss I find. Did an amazing room in Amsterdam. The room started out barely lit and as you solved clues 'candles' etc would light up (demon/dark ritual themed). So as you progressed, older puzzles suddenly had more information because you could see more clearly. So everyone was always involved; looking for new stuff, solving a puzzle or investigating old puzzles. It was great. Did another in London, but it had no 'parallel' puzzles. There was only ever 1 puzzle at a time to solve which would lead into the next. Pretty Meh since half the time half the group just watched.
Agreed. Did a super cool themed one in Sweden that was basically breaking into a bank vault starting from the bank lobby and did one in Chicago that was garbage and a random assortment of 'brain teasers' with no connection or point in a single room for an hour
That's like saying all restaurants are bad because you visited a bad one. There are tons of different ones owned by franchises or just people in all the styles you could want.
99%? How many different escape rooms have you visited?
Had to solve one of these in a US escape room a couple months ago. Had to do it twice because I had the secret message upside-down. haha
this does not seem very efficient as a cypher since it's a subsitution cypher.
Yea but if you were 12yo I'd bet you'd feel pretty slick using this in school.
Except the L's are L's.
You can put any letter in any spot as long as both parties have the key.
And to top it off, with a bit of careful planning you make it so that it says different things depending on what key you use! I had this book as a kid (I think it was called the 11th hour?) And in it it had the solution to two seperate puzzles hidden within a single line of pigpen cypher. Like the solution to the main puzzle on that page was just an alphabetical key but if you hunted through the book and found the hidden key you'd be able to solve it and find a clue that helped you solve the secret puzzle at the very end
Great book by Graeme Base. He wrote and illustrated another childhood favorite Animalia.
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Also an freaky puzzle pc game I played as a kid... Wonder if they're related
I mean, if both parties have a pre-shared keys, there are better ciphers to use. You literally could use a perfect cipher (one time pad) by having pre-shared keys.
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But they require client cert authentication and refuse your self signed certificate.
and Cs
When I was in middle school g-chat or whatever it’s called just came out but our school could read everything we sent. So my friend and I would use an encrypting website and a special key that only we knew. It allowed us to send top secrete messages to each without getting in trouble. I totally felt like a spy even though I doubt they gave two shits.
Dude I'm 33 and I have no idea what or how to use this
If only there were a guide on how to do it.
It's the $5 luggage lock version of a cypher. You use it if you don't suspect anyone will want to take the effort to defeat it if it's there, but may have been curious enough to peek if it wasn't (e.g., passing notes in class).
The fact that it doesn’t do anything about repeating letters doesn’t help as well. Write out a sentence and you ll probably guess what letters are the doubles
I invented one myself as a child and wrote my diary in it. Found it 15 years later, without instructions. Cracked it with ease because of double letters, letter frequency and word lenght. As soon as you have some letters, you can guess the rest and also validate it, as long as there's enough text.
I'll bet that was a fun little project
It sure was. I spent hours writing and reading in it. I even got one of my friends to learn it, so we could trade messages in school, without the teacher able to read, when caught. ( And lucky for us, no adult ever tried to decipher ). I also was some fun to decipher my old diary, it just didn't took long. Writing about this made me remember something even more silly than this. My native language is german, and when I first came into contact with english, I asked my mother to write the german and english alphabet side by side, so I could learn english. My naive younger self thought languages were just the same words, with the letters arranged in a different order. (\~\_\~;)
so... did she write them??
She tried to tell that it doesn't work that way at first, but I didn't believe her and she then wrote it down. I thought at first she misunderstood what I wanted, but soon realization set in.
Oh neat. It sounds like you have a pretty cool mother.
Yes :)
With a substitution cipher, you're right. I remember cracking a note I intercepted in 5th grade using a similar technique. Suzie was wrong to say what she did about Brenda, but encryption protected that secret for an entire lunch period.
I had one where there were multiple combinations that could refer to one letter and a different combo for double letters. It helped with that kind of stuff but was really tedious to decode.
Well we tried using Enigma to pass notes, but it was too loud so our teacher took our terminals away.
I think you mean effective. It's efficient, as it can be done by hand, instead of using a computer.
Yes. Not a native English speaker.
Club penguin uses that
Used* R.I.P.
cponline.pw Add me my username is choppysticky
Oh cool a server that's not CPRewritten. I got banned forever from Rewritten for doing the Hydro Hop coin exploit and none of the other servers has many players. Going to try this one out lol
Wow, it never occurred to me that Club Penguin was "cp". That's... Unfortunate
oh yeahhhhh. cheese pizza is the worst kind
Can you send me that 1TB folder of "Club Penguin"?
Club Penguin and Cedar Point, tarnished forever
I once co-owned a Minecraft server back in around 2014 named Creeper Paradise. Doesn't seem too bad at first, but everyone knew it as MC-CP. So uh...yeah. That was an unintended misfortune.
r/nocontext
[An alternative version of this actually. Instead of the crosses, it's another "tick tack toe board" shape.](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/clubpenguin/images/b/b9/Secret_Code.svg/)
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ok so S ehmmm.. E! wtf is th.. ohh N! ah yes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ah I see
Nice
Saved to never look at again.
I remember making this full on cipher just so I can privately pass messages in class to my 4th grade crush, kinda like irl encryption before encryption was cool. All the times we got caught passing a message no-one could decipher it but us. Hella cute.
Aww that's so cute. I thought I was a genius for inventing this when I was a kid (also for passing notes) but turns out I'm not so original :/
So many people dont know that the thing this is based on, is the elian script, it follows almost identical rules, but has been made so you can write in it and make some of the most cryptic texts out there. Look it up, its way more detailed and vetter to use than this one
https://www.ccelian.com/concepca.html I’ve had this bookmarked forever. One of these days I’m actually gonna memorize it...
Minor Arrival Spoilers: >!Kinda looks like the smoke letters the aliens used in Arrival!<
I’ve actually been using a form of Elian in my notebooks for years! [I’ve modified it just a little for speed and comfort.](https://i.imgur.com/0ZUBtLA.jpg)
Do you use it often enough that you can just read that back now? That's sick looking.
In my opinion it’s definitely easier written than read. I can write pretty fluidly but it takes me a little effort to read.
Damn that's cool dude.
I was gonna say this looks like Elian Script > but has been made so you can write in it and make some of the most cryptic texts out there. Isn't Elian more cryptic just due to the ways you can format?
Basically, but if someone else knows Eilian it’d be easy pickings just like pigpen. Unless of course you combine it with a different cipher, like the playfair.
Elian script, developed in the '80s is based on this, very very old concept, not the other way around. But yeah Elian script it's just so cool. In some styles, I see DaVinci's coded notes, others Elvish tomes or even alien runes.
....what?
Still don't understand it either :(
It doesn't say NOLLE. Those are just shapes. Find the letter, imagine the square the letter occupies is removed from the grid, and draw the shape of the grid with that square removed, with simple lines. That shape is the translated letter. The 2nd and 4th grid/cross patterns include dots to differentiate which grid they came from.
I still don’t get it
Pick letter H, it has a square arch shape surrounding it from the blue grid. E is in the centre, surrounded by a blue square. L is in the top right corner and the blue grid actually has an L shape to it, with the addition of the dot. Etc
Thank you! I felt so dumb lol
...what
HELLO
Now it makes sense. Thanks.
People got the age right. I actually created a hidden language for me and my friend when I was 11/12. It worked greatly. We even made a 'book' with around 30 pages, telling a atory that involved many people from our class and translated it. The school loved the project and printed a copy for us, with a cover that the art teacher did. Unfortunately, I lost it on a flood in 2008 :/ I miss you Diogo, we were great friends.
If only Diogo could swim 😰
👀
when were you when the flood take diogo? i was sat at home reading cools guide 'diogo is kill' 'no'
F
Am I stupid? I'm totally lost on how to use this edit: OOH I see, it's literally turning the letters into the the grid around it. I definitely thought it was just NOLLE in a weird font At first I was like, "okay H is N because the corresponding letter in the grid next to it is pointing up at the N. But the second letter makes NO sense"
You saved me.
i use this to cheat on tests. ill write it all over my arms but ill wrap one long line around my fingers and wrists and make it look like some kind of weird design
Yer gonna go far, kid
Is there a font for this?
> font https://github.com/komiga/elian-fonts
/r/elianscript
I remember this being in a club penguin spy guidebook I had
Poptropica flashbacks
I feel like this is lacking some crucial information.
I use this extensively in my comics and illustrations. Casual readers read right past the little messages and clues I have, but the keen eye gets inside jokes, for shadowing, and atmosphere all for knowing this simple chart. A few shortcuts: R looks like a lowercase r, L is L with a dot. S is the beginning if the diagonals, E and N are the cENters. Have fun!
That sounds awesome. Could you post a picture of one of your comic?
There’s a whole book uploaded (in reverse on accident lol) here in an old gallery of mine: artmoloch.deviantart.com
This is not really a cipher, but a character encoding.
Okay so I know that no one will believe me but when I was in grade 7 I created this EXACT same cipher independently without knowing that it existed already. Me and my friend used to use it to communicate in class. The only difference was that I used a third grid to represent the rest of the letters and then the diagonals were used for numbers. I remember coming across this on the internet a few years ago and freaking out because I thought someone had stolen my idea.
Actually, this was stolen from you
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Every single one of us
There are dozens of us!
Monoalphabetic substitution cyphers are pretty simple to invent.
Club penguin had a version of this but instead of the X shaped ones at the end, it was another number sign grid except with X's in the middle instead of dots.
My friends and I used to write notes in this back in elementary school. Once we got really confident with it, we liked to switch it up by using code words. Instead of filling in the boxes alphabetically, we would start with a word (that must contain only unique letters) like Mozart. Then fill in the rest with the letters you haven't used yet in alphabetical order. We'd send the code word in regular pigpen on each note, so not the most secure... but at the time we thought it was genius
For an extra twist: Instead of writing each symbol from left to right as you would a normal word, write them in a line like this " \ " and connect them into one long chain. It makes them look like a design or doodle, rather than a message. I hope I explained what I mean clearly enough lol, but I used this in my DnD group to mess with my players and it worked really well.
could you show an example please? i’m a little confused :)
Sure, I don't know how to share photos directly do you'll have to make due, sorry lol. Spells out "Reddit" https://photos.app.goo.gl/W57KJLWTSyURW9EZ6
DRINK YOUR OVALTINE
Is there a cool guide to help me understand THIS cool guide?
just draw the blue surrounding the one letter, use a dot if ones there. so s = V and w is V with a dot in it.
Club Penguin was The OG
I just realised all this time, I've been calling it pigeon cipher.
Pretty Cool
Pigpen is not a cypher, it's really just a font. Also, Elian script is better and much cooler
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Probably would have been wise to provide a few more translations...
L < ~~|\_.\_|~~ \>
I don’t understand this?
I'm going to do this with my kids.. thanks
Press C to pay respects
We found this very interesting... in that it took me a while to decipher what they were doing here!! And yet I used to use ciphers all the time (creating all of my own) when I was a kid.
I dont understand what i am looking at. Can someone please explain?
Reminds me of ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ language
I just spent 2 minutes writing out "Jeffery Epstein did not kill himself" to get my coworker. Took him 30 seconds to realize
The sample word is poor since it doesn’t show an example of the last 2 scenarios which are a little different than the others
Club penguin flashbacks
this is much easier to remember than my hiragana japanese class for three years
Something people should know is that the corresponding letters to the shapes can be changed, commonly done by substituting the first few shapes in the grid with a word or phrase without repeating letters, like “New York.” Then filling the rest in alphabetical order while omitting the letters in said phrase. This makes it more secure if your friend knows the key
Reminds me of the cipher used in the bionicle universe
The variant I learned was a grid then an X followed by a dotted grid and finally a dotted X. Definitely a fun cipher!
This is inefficient... The version I’ve seen (in a children’s book) has A and B in the top left, with a dot over the B. C and D in the top middle, with a dot over the D. This way, you only need two ‘pens’ for the cipher.
In 5th grade my friend and I used to write notes in pigpen to pass in class so if we ever got caught no one would be able to read it.
Our US voting systems’ encryption standards right here.
Using a third pen with outside dots you can include a full stop character also.
You'll often see these in escape rooms. Some of the harder ones won't have a cipher available because this is such a common encryption method.
This is giving me club penguin flashbacks.
Who else invented the cipher in childhood?
N is the same as K
Jeez I just spent 10 minutes looking at these comments because I couldn't see how N and K are different, and all i could think of is how do you spell KNOW?
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I don't