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…
I don’t even know how to comment on this, but there is some kind of genius here. Sick, twisted genius, yes, but still: It gets, um, better as it g…
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… -glu…
Norse- As smithy found long ago, Z’s version was VERY LIKELY based on a phonetic hearing of the Groucho Marx version. See here:
To be clear, I only meant that THESE stamps in THIS picture cal from a roll: Because, you know, perforations only on two opposing sides. I didn’t m…
masootz- Just a note – those stamps (as you pictured above) – didn’t come from a book of stamps, but from a roll of them. Which was actually totally…
So, "Boardwalk Empire" had its finale earlier. No spoilers here, but I’m just going to say that I found the ending a bit of a disappointmen…
I think that one of the major problems with this sort of thing is the lack of understanding by many people of how digital imaging works. Certainly, t…
Say what you will about his work but the drawings are stunning and exquisite. I don’t know about the evidentiary value of this stuff but if he were o…
Why do you keep saying that it was mailed FROM Vallejo? It was postmarked S.F., but sent TO Vallejo, right? Maybe I am missing something. -glurk M…
I have a question, does anybody have a good clear copy of Hardin’s worksheet? Does the writing match the code key? I was thinking, maybe he felt like …
That would be really impressive if both the ‘independent solver’ as well as Zodiac, were both in Vallejo,WITHOUT being one and the same person Well, i…
Sure. it says in a report that the FBI solved it. That makes it true, right? Do you think Hoover’s FBI would ever admit that the Harden’s beat them…
If it is of any help, thanks to the fixed width of typewriters, I can say with some certainty that the person’s surname is 8 letters in length. -…