This was in my copy of Breakfast Cult which arrived today, along with this context:
" ASPECTS
Durwood, There’s something wrong with this file. The supplementary GAME OVER material is untouched, but someone has been through our friend X’s dossier and corrupted his personal details. Please look into this before our next meeting. Do not inform the Steering Committee about this. — H APPROACHES Careful: A (+3) Flashy: C (+1) Quick: D (+0) Clever: C (+1) Forceful: B (+2) Sneaky: B (+2) STUNTS
CM, I think you’re on to something, this file definitely had something to do with it. Spoofing Foundation cred doesn’t fix the dossier though so we need more. I heard X stashed something in the pigpen and I don’t see it in these files, maybe they missed it? Get me a list of the best students to approach the pig problem and maybe we can solve this. — J"
what you have there is the pigpen cipher, look good but insecure., just google it and it'll become easy
Brayden Butler
googling various pigpen ciphers just returns gibberish.
Jonathan Clark
Try this.
Isaiah Morgan
That's diiiiick
John Ortiz
Once you converted it into letters you can paste it into substitution analysis websites.
Zachary Hill
DRGWPAKGMXAOFAG IFNAVXQCWJFL
GIDVXALYKJHPOZNRNP OGMSIZHXALYIZDMWN
KRUNHHXOIYFTNJSJ VNAFJDTWXCFBUWV
BNHCAPVBRIFPXHSNT KHGVLUTTEPKOXMXB
KIBCQN LFCQHZZ
Gavin Rogers
Just tried this with transcription from No dice. Not even Vignere solver worked.
Ayden Nguyen
I mistyped the second last line should be
DRGWPAKGMXAOFAG IFNAVXQCWJFL
GIDVXALYKJHPOZNRNP OGMSIZHXALYIZDMWN
KRUNHHXOIYFTNJSJ VNAFJDTWXCFBUWV
BNHCAPVBRIFPXHSNT KHGVLUTTEPKOXMXB
EKIBCQN LFCQHZZ
Logan Ward
I'm using frequency analysis and trying to brute force it with quipqiup but I'm not having any luck.
My quess is there's a clue somewhere in the book, art or fiction.
If the final short two lines are a name, that could be a hint. HH, TT, and ZZ are the only double letters and they show up once each. The most common double letters in english are SS, EE, TT, FF, LL, MM, OO
Levi James
OP, any sign in the book of cleartext phrases you expect in the ciphertext?
Easton Hughes
OK, this is kicking my ass. It's listed in the index as "Weird thing" Automated solutions don't seem to work, and no extra joy supplying relevant terms with double letters in the appropriate places (Occultar, Osservat, etc).
David Harris
Looking at scottbryce.com/cryptograms/ this doesn't look like real text (at least, not in a simple substitution cipher). Only three recurring trigraphs, even numbers of digraphs...
Jaxson Hernandez
There's also anomalous digraph assymmetry, used to find E and H (as they often appear HE but rarely EH).
Either the ciphertext is hugely unusual or it's a complex cipher (and I have no idea what the key to it would be).
Mason White
Any ideas on 11 letter words that could be the key to a Vigenère cipher?
Christopher Kelly
It bothers me that the larger text is at the bottom. Is the image upside down?
Eli Torres
I got my copy yesterday as well, and there's nothing. It's page 81 if anyone else has it.
Luis White
Anyone else got any ideas?
Lincoln Jones
No, plus what starts with a double letter pair?
Brandon Thompson
No spaces nor punctuation. That "most common letter" should probably be a space. Punctuation might be optional...
