Post by Parsival on Apr 17, 2024 8:54:08 GMT -5
I recently discovered a book with information about a buried treasure. The treasure was hidden in the early 1980s and the author supplied four different codes to decipher, using a substitution cipher similar to the Beale codes. He said the book would contain clues to the key sources. Each of the four codes would have its own key source
My questions are, does a book cipher normally start with word one of chapter one? Do you include the contents page? If the chapter has a name and short description on the first page of the chapter, do you use those in solving the cipher? Do book ciphers use the whole word or just the first letter of the word?
The author didn't seem to leave any hints as to any page-line-word associated with the cipher. The code is mostly just one, two, and three digit numbers. One code, the longest one, does use four digit numbers though.
Here is one of the codes:
17 24 25 43 27 9 12 58 110 15 82 57 209 338 99 128 374
322 153 51 113 6 74 88 134 221 119 268 96 29 168 338 91
149 374 125 84 28 121 65 112 25 107 137 189 210 35 56 95
108 83 306 194 41 348 148 157 40 21 330 224 117 262 219
177 53 162 213 384 30 126 362 322 238 275 300 349 341 322
245 235 374 160 364 43 23 20 200 343 278 327 16 180 124
25 375
Looking at the code, the numbers 25,43, and 338 are used twice. And the numbers 322 and 374 are used three times
I have found what I think are key sources. I'm just not sure where to start.
The vagueness of the use of the codes is probably the reason this treasure hasn't been found in over 40 years.
Any guidance is appreciated...
My questions are, does a book cipher normally start with word one of chapter one? Do you include the contents page? If the chapter has a name and short description on the first page of the chapter, do you use those in solving the cipher? Do book ciphers use the whole word or just the first letter of the word?
The author didn't seem to leave any hints as to any page-line-word associated with the cipher. The code is mostly just one, two, and three digit numbers. One code, the longest one, does use four digit numbers though.
Here is one of the codes:
17 24 25 43 27 9 12 58 110 15 82 57 209 338 99 128 374
322 153 51 113 6 74 88 134 221 119 268 96 29 168 338 91
149 374 125 84 28 121 65 112 25 107 137 189 210 35 56 95
108 83 306 194 41 348 148 157 40 21 330 224 117 262 219
177 53 162 213 384 30 126 362 322 238 275 300 349 341 322
245 235 374 160 364 43 23 20 200 343 278 327 16 180 124
25 375
Looking at the code, the numbers 25,43, and 338 are used twice. And the numbers 322 and 374 are used three times
I have found what I think are key sources. I'm just not sure where to start.
The vagueness of the use of the codes is probably the reason this treasure hasn't been found in over 40 years.
Any guidance is appreciated...
