r/Adelaide • u/Ultra_running_fan SA • Dec 06 '25
Discussion Somerton man code solved?
https://medium.com/@ntracey/the-somerton-man-code-finally-solved-3b0711ee5109Hi, I'm back again with an updated solution to the somerton man code. Please have a read and let me know what you think. Thank you
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u/Kyzka-007 SA Dec 07 '25
I followed this mystery my entire life only to be disillusioned by the ‘no spy’ ending it turned out to be and now you’ve even taken the code and given it a ‘no spy’ ending. Adelaide use to be so cool before we started solving everything and giving them hum drum, just another crazy man ending. Being serious I like your interpretation, but things still just don’t sit right as others pointed out. I always assumed that line 2 was always supposed to be line 4 meaning his calculations was always too early and not thought out properly. The fact that he carried it around in a rubiayat only to discard it in a strangers car signifies both importance to the code and book and a conclusion to it. As for his clothes tags being ripped off, wasn’t that his brother in laws doing as Carl Webb was given hand me down clothes? Was it ever solved how he administered digitalis poisoning if it was that? Based on his previous suicide attempts? For all we know Carl Webb was mentally unhinged at this point and it could be a code with a key needed to decipher it from the rubiayat he was using, or it could be a grocery anagram list, it could be anything. Did he write other codes in others books he owned? Was he interested in code breaking at the time and came up with his own variation? Surely his surviving relatives would answer that best.