superprismatic Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 The 26 letters of the alphabet are written in scrambled order in a circle. A message is then enciphered using the following scheme. Each letter of the message is represented by two letters whose (clockwise) distance apart in the circle is the position of the letter in the alphabet. Any two consecutive letters, say PJ, could represent A, JP representing Y; any doubled letter could represent Z, et cetera. A message enciphered in this way becomes QJ XE BN JA ZB RK RJ EZ NA CA JE XQ EZ XR BQ CX KZ NA OB JS AO QN BX CX KJ KS AX OC XV BV ZU FV FJ UM XL GL [/code]What does the message say? (Begins "A complete") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 Spaces, I assume, are compressed out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 superprismatic Posted August 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 Spaces, I assume, are compressed out? Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bushindo Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 (edited) Nice puzzle. You're right. It is very small. Edited August 30, 2009 by bushindo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The 26 letters of the alphabet are
written in scrambled order in a
circle. A message is then enciphered
using the following scheme. Each
letter of the message is represented
by two letters whose (clockwise)
distance apart in the circle is the
position of the letter in the
alphabet. Any two consecutive
letters, say PJ, could represent
A, JP representing Y; any doubled
letter could represent Z, et cetera.
A message enciphered in this way
becomes
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