Word pairs
Here is another quick (and pointless) diversion. As explored in the previous post, you can find words in the cryptograms without performing any substitutions. For example, in the 408-character cryptogram, the word “OUT” appears: And the word “RIDE” can be…
Hidden in plain sight
Many people have noticed that words can be found among the symbols in the Zodiac killer’s cryptograms without performing any substitutions. Here are some examples from the 340: HER TOM Looks a lot like “ZODIAC” FBI TOO GOD BOO is…
Gardner and Penn, Jekyll and Hyde
Between 1956 and 1981, math and science writer Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column, a series of popular recreational math diversions in Scientific American. Gardner’s gift to the world was to rescue us from the school-borne tedium and fear…
How to crack Kryptos
(photo credit: Elonka Dunin) Thanks to Doc for informing me about this story. Above is CIA analyst David Stein, the first person to crack encrypted messages in the Kryptos sculpture at the CIA, leaving only one message unsolved. Twenty-three years…
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