If you successfully solved the first three Zyptograms in this package (next post, below), you're ready to move on to the elimination round. Zyp 4 is rated "difficult," and Zyp 5 is what Cryptopop calls a "stumper."
4. COXM CODJVOZJNG EOVCM EZLJGNV CODJG COXLCJ.
5. TRJQ OXRPJT OSXRPB QRPOS TQRPORB.
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Thursday, December 4, 2014
Bag o' Zyps
Here are three of Cryptopop's ever-popular, challenging Zyptograms. The first one is relatively easy, as far as Zyps go. The second and third are medium.
See if you can get all three. And then watch for two more Zyps -- even more difficult than these -- to be posted within a few days.
1. UJAGUPK UJAGU PK GAUJU.
2. NOTBOD NQZCMBO NOZBOC NTQD NDCMBOC.
3. IOQFI IOQFZAGR OCRA VIOCFZ, IQFFAO IQFI VGF.
See if you can get all three. And then watch for two more Zyps -- even more difficult than these -- to be posted within a few days.
1. UJAGUPK UJAGU PK GAUJU.
2. NOTBOD NQZCMBO NOZBOC NTQD NDCMBOC.
3. IOQFI IOQFZAGR OCRA VIOCFZ, IQFFAO IQFI VGF.
Forget 90210 — We've got a new "Zyp code"
Cryptopop designs challenging (yet "simple") substitution ciphers, called Zyptograms or "Zyps." He was kind enough to tailor one of these word puzzles just for us.
ZYP-WY-WBJGHLDWN YWWDITHOG ITHOLGZPW ITGWN WBJHQ QYZGW.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Overheard in a "sue"-shi bar
GCHT KVMFOFKH RVGPHMQ ZMXHM QAQCF WRVOOHMQ, OCHP FTQFQO VTP QADQOFOAOFZTQ DH KVXH "QSAFX WMZ SAZ."
Wake him up for the commercials
MIJDF UBTJWG BI JFMPCZTV NMSZTV/NMTZTV GKEDF ABNH SHZZZ JZPCDJ GMHDG, ABBCCDDEDF GHDDEG JWFBKVW VMUD.
Bee sting smarts
EWHENPECK ZXETYEX ELLGXK TRJKK UGHPCK "ENOUGH" JLYGX LCBPHU WEO BPKKZGRRK "HENPECK."
Beat man snaps on the job
BYUYWNDP "ZGPIX SDHPWODLP" ARSDBRC "VGPYX BRXWODLP": RZRPW "LYC QHCW KRWWGPK DP BI PRUZRC," CYIC WGURO OGCS QDSMRI LND AUDMR VDUWI-VGZR URSDUOC. LNGUXRO URSDUOC.
"Please, Mr. Postman, look and see. Is there a letter in your bag for me?" Hover your cursor here to reveal a hint.
"Please, Mr. Postman, look and see. Is there a letter in your bag for me?" Hover your cursor here to reveal a hint.
It's hard to find sense in all this change
"RMISO" DZZMDKO NI NICU NIM EMINTLIDSLNI NW DTMKLRDI RNLI RYKKMISCU WNYIE LI RLKRYCDSLNI!
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
She re-cycles, too
XZJJA QJANPMJEJ QYWWSNPAX TV TPQVQIJ: "KPALIIV ZJESQPAX WV QLZTYA KYYNMZPAN."Photo courtesy of Jonathan Burishkin.
POTUSes greet, meet, eat at White House
KOGLZV NIHHVCFDOHXO ODIHZI GOHVXLH NFOCIM SLVP OV NUXLU, TZUUIHP, XHTLGXHB (N)UIVXMIHPV BOPSIUIM KLU FZHTS.
Tongue twister has silver lining
"XRJ, QC OQREGZ, JSZ QJSZE CUAZ GSZZV SBAZ MZAZE CZFJ XZJJZE," ZDVFBUMG GUDJS GUOL GSZUL.
Purple reign
Here's a "SWORN EPIC." (Those are the only nine letters to appear in both the plaintext and the ciphertext.)RCRP ENCRIPO SWW ENCRIPOO: ENCRIPOO SCRIPO. WRP EWE CIWR SWWO ENCRIPOO: ENCRIPOO OSWWRO. (ENCRIP SCRO RCIP INWSR CR ENWIPOO.)
On the menu: wild game
"DIFVVXBYUBQX" UFZJFPFU UFSRUXV BCRYX FQE HBOF: "MBXF LQJHIX VIJGXV MFBZF DIFDLFUFE VYUGBDF VXUFPQ PJXI CBXXFUFE SJFDFV. DIFDL, OBXF!"
Payback plays out Down Under
WINGSQELCH: WIWX GICSIQEE DKEEGD ELMWING WINGKINGOQ. RAGOQ KLUUD NLQJOH DMANG ZQET GCIKDING. WEETOQICS IQND ELM ICH NETOD WING.
ELMNETO: EJOQNETO YEOX YLTKOH WING ICH ULNGOH ELM. TIC BID GCENGOH ELM BROC BOIKEC WINGZAQOH.
ELMNETO: EJOQNETO YEOX YLTKOH WING ICH ULNGOH ELM. TIC BID GCENGOH ELM BROC BOIKEC WINGZAQOH.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said
QJI SRMBZE ESCR QXFBHPQ OFS ZEPG TFO GSOXG ESK GEPGTES DSXXGD EMSS FB ZFFSZE BH HQK ZEPGYE BHWHBZ FM STW CRETB E PGTEGBDP EPGYESXSZ KJ ST E PGGZFXGHHQYYG ZHQE ISJ E PGHGB
This is a not-so-simple simple substitution cipher. Punctuation and original spaces have been removed, and arbitrary spaces have been inserted. It has been translated into English from French. The cipher alphabet has been mixed using the English title of the speaker's first book.