Just when you thought the cipher series was a disturbing memory of
the past, comes a revisit of a Golden cache to celebrate Zytheran's
2000th find.
Cracking Multiliteral Substitution Ciphers
Cracking this really isn't fun and is extremely difficult without
multiple or long ciphertexts.
You are welcome to try but when this fails please resort to this
crossword style clue to determine the 8 letter keyword and 2 digit
number.
"The Beasts (8) can be seen wearing gold if you visit the initial
and alternative location."
"The Beasts have a unique number associated with them".
When you have the table, the ciphertext can be run through the
enciphering sequence (given in Cipher Gold) in reverse to get the
final cache location in plaintext.
The Cipher for the "Cipher Kryptonium" location is:
NILH SHCA IONT TAES
IYII OOAE WOUA OETI
BOSD NHAN AESA IOIH
PNYT IAPO ISIT DASZ
IHAN SANO EILI OSTE
TNAH SPNN TAAI IFON
ADEA NNIS NNDO EREI
ASWH HIAE NAAE
BTW, The Beasts aren't "Zytheran" nor the number "666".
Enjoy
The March Hare
To aid your checking of the keyword and keycode convert the 8
character word into 8 digits using the table below:
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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A
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B
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C
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D
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E
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F
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G
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H
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I
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J
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K
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L
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M
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N
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O
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P
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Q
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R
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S
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T
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U
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V
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W
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X, Y, Z
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And then combine with the 2 digit number to give a 10
digits which can be inputted as a location in the geochecker.
For example, Zytheran 66 would convert to S34 55.114 E138
50.166
7 September: Geocheck now verifies just the
beast unpluralised and padded with zeros, to aid in your search for
the elusive keyword.
For example, “Eagle” would convert
to S34 40.054 E138 00.000
10 Movember: Geocheck now verifies your tables
first line, using the two digits to fill the blanks.
For example, “ET2AON6RIS” would
convert to S34 41.202 E138 16.520