Unanswered Questions
102 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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We found text from the year 2040!
Recently, the first surviving examples of text from the ███████████████e discovered! The unearthed artifacts included a collection of rectangular tablets inscribed in the hitherto unknow███████████████...
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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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Stress Not! - A North Daniels' Puzzle
Beep, beep, beep, beep...
No, this was not the sound of D.S.I North Daniels playing miniature cricket on his phone, although that would be a preferable situation to the one he is in now.
Unfortunately,...
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Forbidden Love: A tale of two kingdoms
Once upon a time there were two kingdoms (bluex and pinksus) separated by a wall of eternal war. The kings of these two kingdoms each had one son and one daughter. Their children sought to end the war ...
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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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What string comes next?
What string comes next:
accccfjuyz
fhqsstv
cfgiorttv
cfffgiioorsttuvz
abccffgioorttvz
aabcccdffghimooqrssttvzzz
Hint:
Hint 2:
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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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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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