mathwhiz9 wrote:MY GOSH R10T'S CODE WAS DIFFICULT!!!!! I got it though
it's
TRY THISEdit: forgot to remove question mark, made it very visible
Read about this type of code in a book, it may be pretty difficult....
VWUXFXBP RL CDK LFCCKVC
Wow, looking over my colorful post, I just realized that I had r10t's code, but didn't realize the correct way to do it! Looking back, it looks so easy.
Also, mathwiz, your code should be:
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTESTI think we should also post how we got the solution, here's how I realized r10t's was solved:
The first number corresponds to a letter in the alphabet with A being 0 and Z being 25. The second number is what you add to the first number. The sum is the letter you want, so (with visual help from my picture) (12, 7) would be the 12th letter (M) plus 7 = 19th letter (T).For mathwiz's code:
I noticed a lot of Cs in the code, meaning that letter was most likely E or T (the first and most common letters in English). As there are few words that start with E, or have E twice in a row, I deduced that C must be representing T. Although unconventional, I just looked up words with three Ts in them. There were two good matches: fittest and wettest (both having the ts in the right positions). Next I moved to the penultimate set of letters "CDK," keeping in mind that C was T. Now, assuming that mathwiz is a logical person who uses known phrases and not jumbo, phrases like "Toe wettest, Tip Fittest, Tap Wettest, Tin Fittest," etc were eliminated, leaving me with the likely decoded phrase of "the fittest" or "the wettest". "RL" was very short so I skipped it for now. "VWUXFXBP" had two repetitions - X. Using my previous decoded answer, I knew that "F" was most likely the letter I or E, and "V" was even more likely the letter S. Now I knew that the first word had something like "S??#(I/E)#??" The online dictionary and search tools are your friends, so I looked for eight letter words starting with S and containing two repeated letters as well as an I or E between them (scrabble word finder works great), which also had some sort of relation to "the fittest" or "the wettest". After some searching, it became clear that the phrase would be "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST."
I'm sure there is probably a way to do it with ciphers and stuff, but that's how I did it (I think this method is just called "Brute cracking" but I'm not sure.