I’ve come up with a different approach to decode the "my name is…" Z13 cryptogram that doesn’t involve substitutions. Please have a look and let me know what your thoughts are:
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P.S.: I’ve put in place a little website to host my cipher ideas "on paper" in order to not lose my work as it happened in the past.
You can also get vertically get "Ross" from this solution.
Very nicely made website, I look forward to your ideas for the Z340!
In the same vein, here is another variation in this non-substitution approach where the cipher is composed by overwriting letters to obfuscate the message.
In this example, I first write the sentence from left to right, then I rotate the canvas by 180 degrees and continue writing from left to right, thus overwriting on the first letters. I rotate one final time to come back to my starting point.
This example only overwrites at most once. I found that to create a "circled 8" symbol, you can superpose 2 R letters or 1 R and 1 B, as long as each letter is approximately written 180 degrees from the other.
So, let’s say that the following initials are of the following people:
RKRM: RICK R MARSHALL
BLJN: BETTY LOU JENSEN
And that, according to the zodiac, he is now at his 10th victim at the time of mailing the z13.
And that my proposed z32 solution also ends in "help".
The following makes for an intriguing message:
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Same principal again, using this non-substitution approach where the Z13 cipher is composed by overwriting letters to obfuscate the message.
This "solution" can be read normally, from left to right, top to bottom:
When simply reformatted for clarity:
Some will recognize Marshall’s name and his alias…
Here’s a little animation to show how the plaintext lines overlap to form the z13 cipher:
This "encryption" method unfortunately can yield too many "solutions" for one to be considered correct, in the event that the z13 author actually used this method.
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