Also, it would be important to think about whether the Zodiac could reach ‘S’ in the same manner as in all the other blocks, merely through assigning the free letters ‘R’, ‘T’, ‘G’ differently, keeping ‘O’ where it is and pushing ‘Ω’ to the end.
I will come back to this idea next, although your recent idea about having the omega sequence produce both ‘E’ and ‘S’ actually answers this particular point very nicely.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
Also, it would be important to think about whether the Zodiac could reach ‘S’ in the same manner as in all the other blocks, merely through assigning the free letters ‘R’, ‘T’, ‘G’ differently, keeping ‘O’ where it is and pushing ‘Ω’ to the end.
although your recent idea about having the omega sequence produce both ‘E’ and ‘S’ actually answers this particular point very nicely.
No it doesn’t. It is a figment of his imagination. He has taken the cipher, made it his own, and included a little story that he likes.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
It’s the same “method” other “Z32 solvers” use. It is mostly an exercise in story telling and anagramming.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
Which is why I had to come along after 55 years and solve it the right way, with my computer.
Have a nice day,
David Stampher, the solver of the Mount Diablo code (December 2025, proof in my signature).
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
What I see among “Z32 solvers”, which I say in quotes, is that they often like to take this cipher, and treat it as their own system to play around. Who cares about the explicit instructions Zodiac gave? Let’s make this our own system. Let’s move things around the way we feel. Let’s tell an interesting story.
Where they went wrong is they deviated from the system Zodiac created. They broke the rules, so they didn’t find the triangle. They got lost in their infinite subjective interpretations, and missed the mark as a result.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
We start, of course, with:
which, according to your preferred scheme (with ‘T’ considered reversed), scores as:
14 + 17 – 19 + 6 = 18 → ‘S’
However, for this we have had to interpret the omega at the start of the sequence as requiring us to accept the ‘T’ as mirrored, otherwise we would have got:
(14 + 17 + 19 + 6) % 26 = 4 → ‘E’
as you know.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
We start, of course, with:
herewhich, according to your preferred scheme (with ‘T’ considered reversed), scores as:
14 + 17 – 19 + 6 = 18 → ‘S’
However, for this we have had to interpret the omega at the start of the sequence as requiring us to accept the ‘T’ as mirrored, otherwise we would have got:
(14 + 17 + 19 + 6) % 26 = 4 → ‘E’
as you know.
Wow! Incredible mathematics! Looks like he solved Z32.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
You people are funny. Right, Mike?
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
This cipher is flooded with bad solutions over the decades. Again the root of it all was people imposing their beliefs upon the system, rather than following the rules of its creator, which were provided to us.
Radians = radials.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
But if the only purpose here was for The Zodiac to give us an ‘S’, then he could have kept to the basic pattern and used:
which, likewise, scores as:
6 + 14 + 16 – 18 = 18 → ‘S’.
So, the omega sequence as it is actually given surely must be constructed to give us something else as well as just the ‘S’.
“This isn’t right! It’s not even wrong!”—Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
This is like mind blowing mathematics in this thread.
I’m sold. OP solved Z32.
“6 + 14 + 16 – 18 = 18 → ‘S’.”
Congrats on your contribution.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
It seems all we needed to solve the Mount Diablo code was 6 + 14 + 16 – 18 = 18 → ‘S’.
Somehow I overlooked this.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
I am such an idiot. I have been focused on this 100 foot triangle landmark by Lake Herman Road, and I completely missed the fact that 6 + 14 + 16 – 18 = 18 → ‘S’.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
Why am I so stupid?
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227
I feel like such an idiot sandwich for not even figuring that out.
I would like to take a moment to apologize to OP, and congratulate them on cracking the Mount Diablo code. Well done. And thank you to @shaqmeister for confirming their solution with the mathematical proof: 6 + 14 + 16 – 18 = 18 → ‘S’.
This explains why it took 55 years. No one noticed that 6 + 14 + 16 – 18 = 18 → ‘S’.
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing
Best regards,
-David Stampher, the solver of Mount Diablo code aka Z32.
Cracked using the Python programming language in December 2025 using modern computational techniques.
Code: https://github.com/dstampher/zodiac-z32-cipher
Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/18645227