Probably but I suffer from a rare transcribing deficiency.

I’ve decoded part 1 of the 3…I guess that counts for something!

I’ve solved these (now) but since I’m not a UK resident, I’m not eligible to win.

I’ll share them with any UK’ers who want to cheat, however…

-glurk

Oooh yes please! Winning a competition from the Daily Mail is a long-standing dream of mine!
(Missed this thread. I’m now a little bit mivvy that I didn’t get to race.)

S’ok smithy. I sat this one out with a sprained brainkle.

That’s an excuse I shall now use elsewhere…..

I don’t REALLY want to just hand out the answers, so here is what I shall do. The first cipher is a simple substitution cipher, transcribed here:

FY VKQC KJ SNM JTWTD MJGOFT FTENGJM TS HDMSENDMY LTQC GR LQKOQMRRGJO VMDD HUS G TF EKJEMQJMI THKUS SNM VTQ KWMQTDD GA NGSDMQ IKMR GJWTIM SNMJ G TF EMQSTGJ RSMQDGJO VGDD EKDDTLRM G NTWM EKJWMQSMI FY RTWGJOR GJSK RGDWMQ HTQR TJI HUQGMI SNMF JMTQHY CJKVGJO FY IQMTIAUD FMFKQY G VGDD AKQOMS VNMQM UJDMRR G DMTWM FYRMDA QMFGJIMQR NMQM GR SNM AGQRS KA SNQMM EDUMR SK GSR DKETSGKJ SNM RGDWMQ GR HUQGMI RKFMVNMQM SK SNM VMRS KA RSTLDM NTDD

The second one is a homophonic substitution, which I have transcribed as numbers:

25 01 02 03 04 05 02 06 05 01 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 98 77 04 66 04 04 05
98 10 88 04 98 07 67 04 98 77 03 19 98 55 07 25 01 77 98 12 67 77 09 10
04 13 31 21 12 22 09 13 02 75 98 55 99 66 04 99 09 10 19 03 12 88 09 13
02 13 08 88 05 12 98 75 07 09 06 08 22 88 09 98 55 02 05 19 10 05 98 22
04 81 25 98 12 21 44 98 12 99 09 10 77 06 12 10 44 44 98 12 99 66 44 98
04 02 01 66 11 98 55 02 05 07 13 02 02 09 13 12 07 09 03 08 09 55 08 108
66 88 03 19 98 55 08 07 98 19 12 10 03 67 99 09 10 04 06 31 06 02 10 04
22 81 25 06 88 66 11 99 12 03 04 88 22 07 81 02 98 12 66 06 88 10 11 98
04 05 11 02 55 13 99 98 44 22 04 05 07 09 10 88 22 02 31 13 12 44 98 02
02 98 77 88 66 08 66 88 09 22 05 05 10 04 21 03 88 99 98 44 88 99 06 04
02 10 01 12 98 06 05 75 06 12 07 98 44 25 01 12 10 81 55 02 06 12 11 01
11 02 10 12 98 55 08 13 99 98 77 98 12 67 04 98 08 13 07 98 88 21 02 44
44 66 04 03 02 11 98 05 21 10 04 11 12 01 75 99 13 05 19 01 06 67 12 66
10 81 88 25 03 12 22 04 10 25 103 25 03 11 09 66 04 21 55 88 66 04 81 25
01 22 04 22 99 22 06 02 88

Note that the ‘108’ and ‘103’ in the sequence require special treatment.

The last one is a bit harder, and will probably require a computer, and definitely the original image from the article, but here it is:

RPVZL YNCQO RVUSY UZUBC KNIBK DWZRP FZVLA

They aren’t too hard at all, really. Transcribing them was much more work than solving!

-glurk

Thanks glurk.
Re: the third one yes a computer was required!

Yes thanks G. Got there in the end.

Yes thanks G. Got there in the end.

Well done mate.
Makes me realise (once again) how fab ZKD is – and how crap and historically inaccurate – as usual – the Daily Mail are.
Once again thanks for transcribing that lot g., I couldn’t (and wouldn’t!) have done it without ya.

Yes thanks G. Got there in the end.

Well done mate.
Makes me realise (once again) how fab ZKD is – and how crap and historically inaccurate – as usual – the Daily Mail are.
Once again thanks for transcribing that lot g., I couldn’t (and wouldn’t!) have done it without ya.

I do this stuff for fun… Plus, I cannot deal with an unsolved cipher that I know CAN be solved, LOL. I just HAD to know the solutions.
In any case, as I read, the winners(s) will be picked by random draw anyways, but if someone here wins something, that would be cool.

-glurk

Gareth Penn just posted a new puzzle today. Maybe you can crack that next!

M16#SP6O@E7SK2I4QFE!#YPN*XZVNE7NE9SXQW95$7ASY3MAI5Y83E44N827&J

It’s the first one of his I’ve seen that contains non-alphanumeric symbols.

I’m not really willing to spend even a moment of my time on Gareth Penn and his "puzzles" for a number of reasons:

1) As far as I know, not a single one of them has ever been solved by anyone.
2) He has never released a solution for a single one, even just to prove that they are actual, solvable codes or ciphers.
3) He is absolutely, certifiably batshit insane.

The "puzzles" are probably some inane kind of binary/morse/ASCII/hogwash nonsense that can’t even be solved.
He would do well to show some solution to one of the earlier ones to prove otherwise. He doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt, at least not from me.

-glurk

Ditto and "Hear hear!"
I wasted a little while on one of Mr Penn’s – a bullshit thing, to do with tracing a bus numberplate online and yadda yadda (I forget how it went now.)
It was involved, tortuous and completely fruitless even when "solved". Never again!

This Daily Mail thing was a lot more fun – thanks to glurk.
Even though Turing actually stayed at 78 the High Street in Hampton in real life. Never mind.