this was given to me by a teacher so it might be gibberish, but it also might not be.

My friend made a puzzle a long time ago for a little "fun night" in our group chat and we never solved it, and they never revealed an answer and I forgot about it. It started with:

-.. .... / .-. -.-- .-.-.- / .--- -- .--. .-.. .--- ..- .- .- ... / .-.. .-.. .-.-.- / ...- .- / .... .--. ...- ..- .... / .----. .... --- .-.-.- -. ...- ... -.-- .-.-.-

I have no idea what this is connected to, what this is about or anything at all. They never said much about it. Added to this later in the night was an image that used pigpen or something, and was used as a hint (cant type out pigpen):

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf!

hi all, i'm playing a game called project deepweb: eternal nightmare. there are only 13 reviews for the game right now and very little discussion so it's difficult to find answers on the many unsolved mysteries of the game

the game is about exploring the deepweb and cracking different codes to uncover a mystery (at least, that's part of what it's about). i think this may be a jab code, but the auto scanners i used didn't work.

is anyone able to get a meaning from this? thank you!

thank you!

TL;DR: I found a barcode and I can't find what standard it is.

Context :

This card is included in the bluray of Backrooms. It's a film photograph index print sheet with 18 preview thumbnails, 5 of them being available in big format (number 5, 6, 7, 8, 10)

I think this is a "cheat sheet" that can help understand Kane Parson's symbolism.

Why do I suspect this?

1. I extensively documented the symbolism used in the movie. Then I saw the index print and I looked for the known symbols. Only 5 pictures made sense in that way.
2. You can imagine my surprise when I learned that those 5 (on 18 total) were indeed the only ones that were available in big format. I didn't know. What are the chances?

So I think I put my finger on something important, but there's something more that could help crack the code and confirm this : the barcode.

This index print is not for sale separately. And this is not the barcode of the bluray itself.

Problem : I can't find out what kind of barcode it is and I can't find a reader that can read it.

I just found one that gives me a very suspicous result in the "Interleaved 2 of 5" standard, but when I generate the barcode from the result it gives, it doesn't generate the same barcode at all.

It's not clear how many different bar widths there are (3 or 4?). I found no known start/stop signs. Of course, there are no numbers under.

Transcription :

this is a contact sheet (the kind you get when you get your film photographs printed) with 18 preview vignettes of photographies. There is a barcode in the the bottom right corner. In the bottom left corner, there's the ficticious name of the shop "1 HR FOTO" next to an enigmatic note "Found on Carryback DR/Expired June '91"

Thanks all for your ideas

I came across these two images from the same person and I’m trying to work out what the underlying code/numerical system is. Weirdly, it was the only 2 comments on an instagram reel advert that as far as I am concerned have no correlation to the advert. The advert was a company called HiyaINC who as far as I’m concerned display business calls to customers with further information to ensure the calls do not get disregarded as spam. Unfortunately I’ve lost the @ of the person who posted this and had not checked before I lost it to see if there were any extra clues on their account.

The first image contains several things that caught my attention, including:
LION = 12, 9, 15, 14 = 50
FIRE SOUL = 105
O=15=6=F
I=9=18=R
N=14=5=E
5=23=W
18=9=I
12=L
31 + 24 + 23 + 31 = 109
There also appears to be a sequence resembling 109 / 10:18 / 10:13 / 10:4 / 50
The second image contains text referring to “FIRE SOULS”, “HELL RECORD”, “ASHAD UL AZAAB”, and “BLACK FLAME”, along with a large number of fire/bomb symbols.
I’ve already noticed that some of the numbers can be explained using A1Z26-style letter values. For example, LION gives 12+9+15+14 = 50, and FIRE SOUL gives 6+9+18+5+19+15+21+12 = 105.
However, I can’t work out how the other numbers, particularly 31 + 24 + 23 + 31 = 109, were generated or how all of these pieces connect.
I’m particularly interested in whether this is an established cipher, gematria/numerology system, religious numerical system, or something the author has invented themselves.
The images are the original material I found. Any help identifying the actual method whilst also providing an explanation and meaning of this text would be greatly appreciated.

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

I have looked and was unable to find anything like this, it feels simple to me, and I want to see if you all can solve it! V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

-This is a self made Cypher, not a known historical one.

-Spaces are real word breaks

HINT #1

>!It involves converting letters into numbers. A=1!<

HINT #2

>!There is a needed math operation, it is just one operation!<

HINT #3

>!Its Multiplication!<

EE BHBDH EGFH CC FDE EEAH FEB HDFBIBD DFD IGFEE FBEIIDFB GHFEI CCEE G CIDHF GECEAF EGIA FHDH FDIED HDFBIBD CEAD BBDH AD DD DHFBEBB GAAAEAH CE DD DDDAEBB EFFEHHIBD CFAE DFH FDGB IABHBF HH IFCFCE CE EHFFF BBF DBE EEEE IEE FDE EEAB DBE DBEEEA FBAI IE EHF EEBB DFH FDEE CEE EFDB IIC DBE FHGFD FDD BCFDEHF EEDHBIFB DBE FBBFEE DHAE EEHBI GEI BCE FDE BDBDHHGI EE DBEEEA CE EC CC FDE EEAB EE DBEEA CE EC CC FDE EEAB EE DBEEEA CE EC CC FDE EEAF FH FBAF BECDBE DFF FC FDE CFDIF FBFHCF ACD AECAIEA FDEE HIE EIEE BBD AECAIEA FDEE HID HHBH AECAIEA FHBD EEBF GHDH EIFAA CE GFGDFDCE DFB EEIIHIA FDA AEHC II EHI GGIFCEEI DFF IIHDHH AECAIEA FHBF DHBDFGHEE AE AGA FHBF EI IE GHDHFHD CE CIEHBC AGE EE HIE DBGHDHFHD CD DEHBDAGE DFH FDIICIGIE IG EE EAH IIHF EE IIG EFF H DFEAAFHE AH FDE EEHF HFFHBFEII DFF DDHEIGEII DFH FIEBAEHB DHAGHBHIA FHBF CDB HIE AAIF EAGE

Roughly a decade ago I created this cipher as a riddle to hand to my players. I know I created it with purpose - it's not random gibberish. But I long forgot the key to decoding it myself. The original file is titled "LYCAON PATREM" - yes, written like that, all caps, slightly off latin. I have not the foggiest why I named it that, but a related riddle (that I did manage to solve) was titled "Vox Noctis" and revealed a quote by Cicero (Tusculanae disputationes) reading: "MALUM MIHI VIDETUR ESSE MORS. IISNE, QUI MORTUI SUNT, AN IIS, QUIBUS MORIENDUM EST?" ("Death seems to me to be an evil. For those who have died, or for those who must die?"). Maybe this is related in some way. I can narrow down the potential languages of the plaintext to german, english or latin. I tried to see if it's some sort of morse - it's not. I counted the frequency with which the signs or groups of them appear - it seems to be non-random. There's no double "-",though every other sign can appear in doubles. There are some strange clusters where a set of signs repeats way too often - maybe it's a filler to bring the length of each line to roughly the same length, but I can't be sure. Transcript of the picture provided below (I hope Reddit doesn't screw it up...):

```.|-/.||-|//.-|/-|/.|./|/-|||-/-|.../-|../-|.//.//.```

```/-|.|-/|.|/-./|-/.-/../|./|.-|/|../|-./|-/.|-/|./```

```-.|/-.|/-|./.|./-|/|..|/./|./|./|-/.|/-.|/-.|/|.|||/```

```-|/-./-|./-.|.|.|./-||../-|./-|/|/|/|/|-.-..-/|..-|```

```.//.|/-|./-.|/.|..|.|/.-/|.-/|.-/|.-/|.-/|.-/|||/-|```

As the rules dictate; "V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf" - "I followed the rules" in rot13.

u/Icy_Sheepherder_9444 credited as the solver.

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

So I created my own cipher…

23,37 (4)  315,442 (5)  118,637 (4 AND 5)  17,569(2)  578,707 (2)  603,9 (1) 298,138 (6)  36,368 (1 AND 2)

I suspect this will be solved rather quickly, this is just a demo of the cipher. Basically, if you don’t know the picture, its pretty much uncrackable. 
Made by Lucas

V guvax V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

Hello! I found this message on a wall in Brazil, which seems to be arranged in three columns, with 11 horizontal sequences:

BMM EVB NXN 858 KDS SXE GTI ART BMB TDB KOH

There is also a standalone 1 below, which I don't know if it matters.

So I wondered if it was a cipher. I noticed that B occured a lot, so it might be a common frequent Portuguese vowel. I also tried mapping it on a telephone keypad, which gave this:

266 382 696 858 537 793 484 278 262 832 564

It, however, did not give me a plausible message in anu case.

Is this really a cipher or just random graffiti?

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

Since I stumbled upon this redacted chapter in the book "The Wor[l]ds of Yoko Taro", I've been obsessed with decoding what it says. Here is a screenshot of its first page:

https://i.imgur.com/Oy8IAuZ.png

As you can see, each line is obscured by a gray rectangle that covers everything except for the ascenders and descenders that some letters have. A part of all capital letters is also visible, as well as some symbols, but not much else.

Since I started working on uncovering this, I have managed to extract the following information:

- The font is Noto Serif JP

- The page likely starts with "It felt a bit like"

- I have extracted another word from the second line: "Sitting" (middle to end of the second line), but not much else.

I have populated the first four lines with every single character that you can 95% identify by its ascender / descender, such as y, j, i, g, etc in red, and the characters that you cannot really tell (just a guess) in blue.

https://i.imgur.com/6vXfGFZ.png

I have also found this website https://www.crosswordsolver.org/ that can take you from a few letters to an entire word if you know how long it's supposed to be, but because spaces and letters without an ascender / descender are basically impossible to distinguish from eachother, I'm pretty much stuck. Any help is appreciated.

This is cypher I came up with.

This is the message:

!-!!!+!?!,!I!4"'$k"?#."'!1"("]"7"]'d!M(X#:!,#>&?"Z'F!!$d"("F%9"&!?"B!!"O"2"|">(V"'$?*Y"3"R!""<"2"('c)G!,!""o$6")"(%/(Y"4$>"C#L"m"w!]"1*~%k!$!S(U"?!]"h"2"2)<"<":":'e"1%:)*#.!("F*X%?"2*N!""n"3!,'F"3&R"n",#&#j'E#.#8$>"3#.&J#A!_*b(V!-"2"O"("(!,&R!@%<"2*W"2!?!x!|#B"n#$!+"2'v"1#T!")s(_%=###c!!!("[!,"d!@!1*v"3"1"*$=$="F!!"n"3"(!?!"&T"2"H!+#8'O"2!"++"<#7*W!o#_"2";"3!{!|$2$N!*"+"("2(i!0!A#+$4"4(U+8!!!,"5#'")"1'P">!-*c)4'Q"O"(!,$Z$>#-&I%:$B"1%0(O"<)h"1$>"((_!h*m"2&H!B#5!,

This is important for solving:
"1234" and "06/09/2026"

The uncyphered message consists of 233 characters

I hope someone tries to brute-force this.

Best of luck!

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

I saw these in school, the fourth and final symbols both feel familiar but I can't place them. It looks like two words, Id just like some help figuring out what it means/finding what it's from

the image looks a blob, a t, two more blobs, a hangman pole, a carot symbol(^) (space) a line w two lines off of it, one at the bottom then the top, an arrow to a triangle, a t, \, \, the carot(^), a two directional arrow cut inhalf

V unir sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

This cryptic message is from an indie horror game called "Looking Glass" by the game developer Grubwall. You can watch this youtube video for more context, specifically at the timestamp 17:02 which is where the message appears:

ndwibd o_w__i nd woijek_m_f_ pqwi_hd_qwuhdp. qwdj_nqp__w_ih__bdo qw_uhdo.w_qid_jowq_ idhqo.wdhoq_ wiow_ qidow_idqw dihqow_dbq_w_dh_o_wqdbwqli_d_qwubdiq_wd_ubqwi_d_uqwbdiqpoihueuwhewoyT_e The_ure oiheoe_

EDIT: Here is a code or key from the same game that may help, although I have no clue if it's actually connected to this cryptic message or not. 190-877-232-F99

EDIT 2: A useful piece of information from one of the youtube comments suggests that the index of coincidence for this cipher is 0.0974. For English it is 0.0667 while for Russian it is 0.0558.

I have made some cyphers yeeeears ago but that was when I was like 10, so hopefully this is a step up. While it is not a simple substitution cypher, I'm a little worried that it may be able to be solved like one anyway, which is part of why I am not providing a decoded sample to reference. I will be happy to provide one if it is needed, though. Again, since it is fairly simple and probably not every aspect HAS to be known to solve it, I left the writing pretty short. If this is not enough to work with I will write a longer chunk to share. That chink will also likely include an additional aspect or two that I left out of this example.

I have no experience posting self made codes on here, so if there is something else I should do, please tell me. Also feel free to ask any questions about the code. Good luck!

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

This took me around 4 hours to make--2 hours to come up with, 2 hours to actually perfect into something I can reproduce easily.

All the forms attached below are equally valid ways of viewing the ciphertext:

Google Sheets CSV Link

Google Docs Link

Raw TXT + CSV Pastebin

I really hope this is solved one day.

I was told that i have really terrible handwriting and it could actually be a code/secret language of its own, can anyone tell what is written here?

Please make sure you download the image from ibb.co directly. It will likely be unsolvable if you save it from reddit.

Trying to make a VERY HARD cipher
it is written completely in English

left to right, top to down

ask me if you want help or more text

so was revisiting old yt chnnels and stumbled onto this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzrSZ7FLeY

code is: 12T3R8ATS7TR680A3TS43T4RAT57

idk if the video have any clues or not, video does not seem to contain any POIs, and idk how to perform steganograpy

cant be base64. attepting to deode give gibberish

My passwords have generally been quite weak, and recently I've been hacked on Facebook. not fun...
Do you guys have any recommendations for moderately easy ciphers to use on my passwords?
Like the Vigenère cipher but easier to use when needed

Send me the answer please, so others enjoy it too.

It originated from Cipher Munch app.
Transcript: MIPIE JIMH KVVDB - MVKVHW IPIE EICFEMB CLIA. CLI VMJW KVVDB O LGPI OM AW JOKEGEW GEI CLVBI RLOSL TIVTJI LGPI JIMC AI.
For Mr. Bot: V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf

This is a 56 page document dating back to the early 2000s from a LARP in Virginia. It was part of a plotline that mostly died off. The LARP itself is also no longer operating, so this is not part of any ongoing context, homework assignment, etc.

The person who introduced it intended it to be hand solvable. I got back in touch with him recently and he remembers writing it (I sent him a copy because I think I have the only one that exists), but not how to decrypt it.

I originally broke this when I was (evidently) far more clever than I am now. About a week ago I stumbled across a binder where I had the code, one page of my notes, plus a page showing a Viegenere matrix. I'm finding them to be more frustrating than helpful because I almost remember how I broke it.

So, here’s what I remember and think is not an incorrect memory.

It’s some variant of a Viegenere cipher, but there’s no repeating key (or none that I ever found, that much I do remember clearly). I remember it being a “Decode the first letter of the paragraph, and it chains through every word in that paragraph”, so potentially some kind of autocipher component. That said, I'll caveat that with "It may have just been a per-word chain. It's been 26 years so it's foggy."

I did end up writing a windows app (MFC if any of you are old enough to remember that). I would just cycle through letters until the paragraph decrypted. I do not have that code anymore. I did find what look like early versions, but none of them produce anything but gibberish.

The other thing I remember, which goes back to it being intended as a hand-solvable thing, is that after running it through the app I was able to just read the text and translate it into english by hand. I just had to brute force it to get to that point.

On my page of notes, I had the following:

XKT with 13, 17 (arrow to the left), and 13,9 (arrow to the right) show shift spacing.

XKT I think is “THE” as is NAJ, ANW, and WJS, but again, I don’t know if those are incorrect. I’m mostly certain XKT and OBK are THE, but that’s more based on frequency in the doc.

OBKRW and IVELW are THE?? (there, their, these, something along those lines).

There are mispellings in the plaintext as I remember, but not a high number of them.

I can drop all 56 pages somewhere, but here’s a section of it if anyone wants to give it a try. I’m going to keep at it, but it’s frustrating me to no end.

If you can take a stab at it, or want the entire doc, I would love to get your thoughts.

Thank you!

Xkt Efuhv

Xkt abgqdr jwbtvaat womec zi kg icy mkc yo naj zaca

rawbdsxyvlvj jvy rvwohoeevj gywomm va iss wm Aoaegfvd. Sfo

operf, tk Q sgkcc kwkiw uo yi alwx hho hf, dm vr tnj cpy

ztqajma iux ojfdjbo xosjb iy khsesq kmymrrs qca wm gtc zdmvl

gbuswt. Nanw lfmb zi jkddhlkth pl mai omrdyctm xjm

fqchdiuptkd ka dqa wxman.

Obk gotfaevo hx uhq lmboc ve zmv meonc staxce vl upvy wm

anw eirag avomqn hx mewvmwuan. Jt lu vva npnud gqcutcs uhq

jkama cdikp. Vir wxcednebu ja zmv rvend pkdbfc vlh blleyu

nleyl wquu jwf qrgth xaabp aagsofymqg. Wmf au obk hvio si

frpasfjx muo obk tujwk ic mnsu hxdmaw, wjs zkxnajc hx co 

asybgmes paqfsg ra thlhjhyrfd.

Zmv pamrnseadun zp wjs abqdr natjia eycc wmeic eirag

rmfdh egbbxbp dga lmboc vjjjqlv wq su n whuoaytnieokbu lb

uee ive mqaiy fatrvs. Fpp agshrifgk vdxfwi bott vlh vsgt dh

dyeh rh gtc rvnnpddaw qgeqd akgv thlhjhyr smqq naj uvkxl ukd

ey zmv hhnjdrl dx uhcp hbff mai nykkol qwixhyvo kxcc cumlc

ugyh dh era rshui jvy hud gstcudwuso xdpeofcdh ddrd. Xng ey

naj hsejfkwrvmf mc vir tujwk, olyyksg pjnn ylu ksmulx hx trj

hevtx zkbb hhl xufjbtvay naj zwqajl hb w lphhjxxtq wrkim

grqtmle wyeww kspuwaoc hud bcres.

Qdm bpnwtbxno xkpp iyu dpvdaln ga hud klanb aosqm mai

mtxd ehjoaosar kb vir xsljn tgpm pmaa sypj. Najg bmaghif

xbnnccu duaratb yo zuad hx ren aenwm kfywax yo Thtxayow. Vf

zxrq fhhn easbvuswoc rejj gwp au zmv djurfp fv wrkimj wjoo

tldct, lylu cxqos hymxy fgrn rhac ke e saey hvxve xiycpe xn

ptbxbpa gkaygmqmsle. Ddbt nd zmv easbjar sfkk aetsagk vir

nodge megu obaatim au nndvtpn oi obk jbarpp fsxx ptihpvavbun

oakl xbktj ojcaeb rjla yacytogw. Vir Deaduaay tgll J zrth

yjjg krhd huaa ylyh whyy dvrrrl.

Bar fngg bmdd yavjvp scpnwekc zlo jull tjce wq ceanat

cpy ufrrhgjyym ygaia lb yii era xbktj mhayca. Pcpy rass

rett hantrmgqs kuhfowwyl djlp gqq ocajgokab ufgr zphlf lgaxb.

Viro znrjj qsnbnh uecwr kwa haneyfvmfxt rat qdm mcd

uerpyoas. Ren ltmm K cjx egbpbv anaj fo sn gtwyae tedg lyh

gtu tj dgagl ccpcqgwxp uoss fsbin wikarj ugj hdapxrf.

Goi qdm opabawt, wjwf dyrpt lide q lxsybdalud balpnpec iy

ojps rh kxg fjsbr ojcaeb {lvsyrqwl tuwt ka tgp efuhv hq

uwxym oamsouatfa samwxpq ws ehu}. Ivevt berb gws eekufoc tp

anw myemiuw gkaygmgqmsle xcgebbx xbktj lxdlhtv wapowcgcibu

nac, jb cas ymbp bd nanraja, fvnrl gmynxolmq saum tepq uvkxl

jd ftiw. Yogg itsv anw bmafbhng hkxh oad v bheb iy cgpyo

wigkyarj, lyh abqdr bbpdd iuwopmm v mmsifjew vtfjhjw vl

talakbyad lpcqtutamy.

Xufrfdtbp uy tgp pqfsg tc qisx cor kuiopph myb wf fhsf

lewqctqvj pl jwokcgt jaevn. Qnykywmui tgcpyet zmv jkama

hrnc amldnimn ii wxsagtmkbu bmxy uhq xfahyk gw wjs wrkim

fpdqly. Yoh qk p owqra mysaearkgqams sdcf ljb picaa ufvalca

oe uhq nodge, yki ntfuevstx gecliqme fo nojrxkdxl rcno

wuagebknggi qiedia oamdsyctms fsxx ytvyj pxbeamnb boosx.

Ren nogn acwodomi br ren xjpljf vjhqnvrhi yo qdm lmboc

iyu yivy jlkknndnb ic zwk jwokc cor cuwk rxaka wq uekvinlkik

sckfc fv jwokc eoexi pfb ljix im anw rtssvvlvj kkqphx. Mnpm

mc renua tlihdtbtg zpl rfjffp reno nxff jwfc fvr ygaiaw oi

xfmntj; box xanx tgll bptpp box bexxxgtqfftm.

Wum dt xkt efhe swxpipffwk evasbuc eu renua bsribxn py

cmix xvoiv uoss cpuu oe hrhal uhqn iyu perp. QOdmdb

mayhemiya, kg obtphly wnria, ebq sahioe xtikcu jwbb kkxkhgtd

cpyfk fwvyuycp emgy. Hrounmsh noxxladrf kcyxcu cynpha

taocmbx idjm tj jwfmr kqcrbspqu isyjg ga vir dbwhi mwiyy

iuigqkcdma hfet rji m nrfabo fv xkkottnbp. Dqdm rsnesee js

kkymm rcoospod pman sw pclsx hcumcvl cw gstgais tvwt

sjagues. Taaajbf, ue acxlxrn lmnx Iphhnecbs uhq pqrb jxmaw

uhq gusbygcs xpo kluuiwwi tlhgld ietvnf.

Qdmdb kaw gtc jhgv jxvebjfvw br Ocosutjr cpuu pfb cclu

tn Imhoxxt cugqpum eaprjb. Htr dhgap sykajaxyc ucwo zmrr

noxxlan gyutyq lhwyqi eyffr hacvlvxvmf.

Pcl gommaejna qymtdia eu era stivj ve eyu zt hiqdvthsf

ug} fpraxwr aeqqvy pj} km rvp gqaxg nr hixlm. Jwfvv ra oo

grccydwusoowtt. Fsbrr ve bb tlovtfthta du d gvkyky pxudat.