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107 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to Complete this Cryptographic Challenge?

This question is from a CTF that a company (EY Cybersecurity) did almost a year ago. The original website is no longer available. ...
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A multi-symptom affliction

"Kindly state your name." The nurse's voice was polite, but qiet. "I'm sorry, I can't hear you, my hearing's bad." Being mostly deaf was quite frustrating for our patient. "...
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Crypto Riddle for a bonus track

here is a crypto riddle a artist named Master Boot Record put on the page of his music. 087 104 101 110 032 116 104 101 032 077 111 111 110 032 119 105 108 108 032 115 104 101 100 032 110 111 032 108 ...
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Find the secret 7-letter message embedded within this message (unsolved)

Background This puzzle was originally from a puzzle contest for the USC Viterbi Magazine that is now over, but the answers have not been posted. My friends and I have been working on it for weeks, but ...
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Sequence puzzle: 3, 9, 27

A twist of the classic sequence game: A friend asked me to find the rule to this sequence: 3, 9, 27. I am allowed to suggest other sequences to test if they follow that (unknown to me) rule, to which ...
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Number Code - A Visitor by Moonlight

You hear a knock on the door downstairs while you're sleeping. You creep down the stairs by the light of your phone, only to see a shadow exiting through the window. By the moonlight, you see a piece ...
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Zed's E-mail: My Good Ol' Uncle Sugar

My friend Gabby and I constantly look out for each other. Just the other day, she received a strange message from what I thought was an uncle of hers. "Problem is," she started with a ...
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Coloured dot cipher

I, as a curious being, stumbled upon a page which had a hidden dot cipher in it. Part of the console states: [...] we left you a little message in the dots of the footer (Source: segment.com) The ...
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Finding Rogue Kitty II

Having been met by a group of very unhappy bosses at Kitty is being 'returned' to the staff car when suddenly there is a commotion and she makes a run for it. As they chase her, little old ladies ...
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Late 18th/early 19th century numbers grid

I was researching an historical figure on the Isle of Man, Capt George Quayle (b.1751 - d.1835), and in amongst the museum's papers was this numbers grid which was part of his effects. The museum ...
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Need help with a cipher: "poems" with capital letters

I am trying to figure out a cipher I think I found in a book from 1982 and it's a 36 year old mystery we are trying to solve (I will reveal the book if this turns out to be something so everyone can ...
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Decode the ancient prophecy

A team of archaeologists has discovered an ancient clay tablet. They understand the script it is written in, and have transliterated it to the Latin alphabet, but they do not understand the language. ...
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All Aboard the Factorio Train to Far Harad

It’s been a while since you started up your Factorio game and you are trying to remember what you had done with your four trains. Use the clues below to work out which deposit each train is collecting ...
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Hidden composer

Today I wanted to make a "logo" for a composer. I liked logos with deeper meaning so I had gone ahead and tried this design: What composer was I trying to make a logo for?
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Lucas's interesting cipher

Lucas was fooling around with some letters when he encoded some text into Gsobj lwmtkd sbceugb vfy rgdjb.. Can you figure out the original text he had?

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