#cryptograms

[dead6ite]

i spent, literally all day on this. and i am praying to bill cipher that it does well

three separate ciphers used here, feel free to decode and comment what you found!

but seriously, this is like my magnum opus here. please give him love!!

i’ll be posting a monochromatic version after this

[billcipherlover]

GF FANDOM, ALL HANDS ON DECK ! WHAT CODE IS THIS AND WHAT DOES IT TRANSLATE TO?? OREGON PARKS TWEETED AN IMAGE WITH THESE SYMBOLS HIDDEN IN IT, GO ⚠️⚠️

[creepst-crypt]

20-18-21-19-20 13-5! F hklt dszg rn 20-1-12-11-9-14-7-0-1-2-15-21-20!

[entropysoup]

you know im rewatching gravity falls and everyday i am in awe of the brave soldiers that decoded the fucking cryptograms left by alex hirsch????? they are absurd!! im reading through the fandom wiki because i wouldnt have even gotten a single clue out of that

[bigbluebackpack]

Decoding EVERY Hidden Message in Gravity Falls (Including The Book of Bill)

https://youtu.be/NMVG8YN_PDM

[ohqueerdeer]

I have spent more time deciphering The Book of Bill and ThisIsNotAWebsiteDotCom than I have on any of my class work. This is a totally normal thing to be doing at midnight instead of going to sleep for my shift in the morning.

[aviary-amphibian]

Hello code-breakers of Tumblr, I have a challenge for you. (please excuse my poor handwriting.)(there may be a few typos)

[serial-experiments-rain]

B SSZRH KME VB SSRZ CGS UTR’F BTEKVRQ

The Cipher from Chapter Two of Cold Circuit, probably the most fun I had encrypting the chapter title.

Anyways, the key to cracking this cipher is "The enemy Knows the System", andthe cipher used is the Running Key Cipher.

Good luck!

Silverhands:

@thatqueerweirdo @foyle-writes-things

[keykidpilipili]

Newbie to ciphers but for viginere, do you have to apply the key to each word isolated or treat the whole text as a single entity with the key resetting on its own?

For example with the Kenobi, does the sentence hello there become either

a) riyzp dlrff (words encrypted separetely),

b) or riyzp bries (words encrypted together)

[rastronomicals]

12:32 PM EST December 14, 2024:

Deerhunter - "Octet" From the album Cryptograms (January 29, 2007)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Ambient Punk

[nokingsonlyfooles]

In case you haven't heard...

And tl;dr - it's a zip file. It's a telegraph-era zip file, a way to compress weather data so it sends faster and cheaper. You can only unzip it if you have the key, which Wayne Chan found by dating the style of the dress where it was found.

It's even got a flipped bit in it which is unreadable - by which I mean someone read the code key wrong and sent a typo.

Now, we still don't know why someone stuffed a zipped weather report in a dress, but because someone did, now you know we've been compressing digital information since before your grandparents were born. And it used to look way cooler! 😁

[mymelodic-chapel]

Deerhunter- Cryptograms (Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental Rock, Indie Rock) Released: January 29, 2007 [Kranky] Producer(s): Chris Bishop

[dyst-blogs]

A few hints on solving the indecipherable-Nonsense puzzle.

so, for a bit of context: soon after posting the Indecipherable-Nonsense puzzle, i realized it was way too hard, so I wanted to give you all some hints as to how to solve it.

but of course, I couldn't make it that easy. so, instead of just giving it to you, I instead made a series of smaller puzzles that ramp up in difficulty more gradually, and give a few hints to each other and to the final puzzle along the way. I hope you all enjoy, and I wish you the best of luck!!!! :3

[sparklywatercolors]

Not me getting into cryptogram games. I'm loving it.

[puzzlenation]

Let's Talk Puzzle Codes!

Puzzly information is concealed in all sorts of ways. Rephrasings, anagrams, riddles, puns… these are all ways to challenge solvers by hiding information in plain sight. But puzzle codes are one of the most prominent techniques… and one of the most ways to do so. Codes in puzzles come in all shapes and sizes. And if you’re venturing beyond the confines of crossword-style puzzling, you’re bound…

[cedar-glade]

Five Fun and Easy to ID lichens that are equally easy to find if you know where to look!

It's not common, infact, ambient humidity of specific variety, air quality and old growth thicket growth are often requirements for lichen that specialize on leaves. We deem this term foliicolous, rather species that specialize on long term foliage. Between the humid ravines of the upper blue ridge's remnant oldgrowth we have two habitats for these species that I have taken pictures of, specifically these are the foliicolous lichen associated with Rhododendron hells. In Joyce Kilmer it is possible to find 4 on the same leaf structure at the same time.

Bacidina apiahica,

Rhodo Rust Dust or Tropical Emollient zoomed in in pic 3.

Often confused with a rusty fungus or sub-partial/ or early stage necrosis is the brown lichen in the powder dot group of Bacidia spp. Needle like spores when viewed under a microscope during wet extraction of a sample. The only truly similar one would be Gyalactidium appendiculatum which can appear on both sides of the leaf instead of just adaxial often in spray cliff communities near ravines where wind gust is gentle enough to flip leaves but not violent and humid enough to maintain it's presense, G. appendiculatum bears similar red to black colored apothecia in macro view but has its special indicators under a hand lense or hyphophores under microscrope, which can be tell tail which I will explain later as well as more of it's niche pref. As for Bacidina apiahica smokey mountain humidity lichen is often only found in wet /humid location.

Aulaxina quadrangula,

Peppered eggs

are hidden on top of the largest lichen pictured in this set, can you spot them. Seen in Photo 5. black dots are apothecia much denser than the yellow and/or black centered apothecia macro lichen they are growing over top of. White glossy thallus, "aggregate islands with dark black tiny apothecia in the center" is how i've heard them described. When looked at under a microscope it becomes apparent that the island like thallus isn't as smooth as it appears; Minute white hairs become apparent on the surface.

Niche is also found in spray cliffs, along streams and in spots near water falls.

Fellhanera bouteillei, Photo 5!

Eggs over Easy, seen best in the Peppered egg image with Yellow example of apothecia and a more greenish blue thallus. In contrast we have a larger species near by!

our easiest to spot/recognize Rhododendron lichen. Actually most common too, it occurs on a slew of other species too! Kalmia, Leucothoe, and Viburnum in humid upper blue ridge have been seen with this species.

Byssoloma subdiscordans,

Viewed best in 6 and 7.

is the black white brimmed black apothecia species and the largest of these rhodo lichens found in humid ravines rhodo hells. Its seen adjacent to pretty much all of the lichens present except for the last one.

Gyalectidium appendiculatum,

Flick a Tick

Last two pictures.

This I got lucky with in the upper reaches of Canton Hills, in a fir-birch forest, in a very humid hoarfrost covered setting above a stream. Scale like thallus, red center apothecia, each containing a raised centralized minute erect hair that may be observed with a hand lense or a microscope 40x that looks like it could flick an insect off like an annulus under pressure. It needs constant humidity year round from what i've heard, so a stream in the steamiest part of the hills should suffice. If you do look for this, it is most common on top of the leaves of Rhododendron spp.