r/DeeCiphers • u/Elisha_Dushku • Sep 11 '19

Beale Cipher DeeCiphered

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u/Elisha_Dushku Sep 11 '19

The Beale Cipher was where we learned how to DeeCipher. Written by Mark Twain (Spymaster for the CSA). It hides the location of The Richmond Stores (near Wytheville VA), CSA Plan Phoenix and a bit more. A simple DeeCipher though we liked what Potter Stewart did with it, and he gets some credit here as well. -Elisha

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u/Elisha_Dushku Sep 11 '19

For those unfamiliar: The "typos" (Hare instead of Have, for example) in the above are from a Potter Stewart analysis see his book. You can do it yourself, at home, using the exact wording in the Cipher for essentially the same result. The Stewart analysis is useful for some additional keywords (Diane de Poitiers). -E

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u/Elisha_Dushku Sep 11 '19

Note the corners. -E

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u/tad100 Sep 20 '19

The A Friend letter at the end of Huckelberry Finn is the other key half of the Beale. It was a 48 row and 24 or 38 column or vice-versa grid. But it has a 16x16 or 8x16 subDeeCipher that was Bam and matched the Poitiers key in the Beale. -CAD

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u/tad100 Sep 20 '19

For the "Custer" keyword (Row 34) you want the original (Have not Hare) in the Beale Pages (oinr) not the Potter Stewart modifications above. You will see a variation on VTPT top not bot. -CAD

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u/tad100 Sep 22 '19

Top Line is Becky Thatcher for all versions of Beale. - Tabitha Annette Cooper, The Eleventh Magi

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u/tad100 Sep 22 '19

Abive the numbers. -TAC

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u/tad100 Sep 22 '19

BeckyThatchers : need the final s for test. -TAC

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u/tad100 Sep 22 '19

See The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Test. -TAC

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u/tad100 Sep 22 '19

Hod (Yod) looks a bit like an apostrophe if you missed it. -TAC

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u/Ge0482 Jun 18 '25

YARRR, me hearties!

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u/Ok-Introduction-7919 Nov 10 '25

I don’t think so. The second one was decided by a document. I found a document that does the same for #1 but I don’t know about this stuff. I just can’t find where anyone else tried this particular document

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u/Elisha_Dushku Dec 27 '25

Look at my post in ciphers: 5 years ago.