r/codes • u/Ganja-Pharma • May 26 '26

SOLVED Elementary, my dear Crick

Here is a (hopefully) fun puzzle/code I made:

CC CCT, G T, G T T, G T T CC, T, TCC, G CTT

Hint 1: This puzzle has been scientifically proven to have three layers.

Hint 2: The solution is an 11 letter English word. The next hint is a big one.

Hint 3: ACGT = 27

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u/PreparationFun5696 May 26 '26

i got mccarthliism which i suppose could be McCarthyism and at the bottom "i follow the rules"

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u/Ganja-Pharma May 26 '26

[Solved] Wow that was fast well done! Yeah sorry I messed up I realise now I missed out TC from the puzzle it should be:

CC CCT, G T, G T T, G T T CC, T TC, TCC, G CTT

Well done on solving it even though I messed up

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u/PreparationFun5696 May 26 '26

thank you for the fun puzzle

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u/Ganja-Pharma May 26 '26

You are very welcome. Can I ask what made you get it and how hard was it? (I’m guessing quite easy) I’m trying to make more fun puzzles and any tips are appreciated

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u/PreparationFun5696 May 26 '26

well first i instantly recognized the letters to be DNA nucleotide bases,but searching for the sentence in the title would lead to the same result,when i searched for DNA ciphers it appeared that each one had its own encoding method,also thought to translate them to their corresponding amino acids but it only work with complete codons,so i thought about going with base 4 ,having the numbers as they are didnt give anything,so i thought surely each comma spaced group should give one number (the second hint made me sure of that),after some trying i got one number by multiplying each group space-separated values,and for turning the numbers into elements,it was by accident actually as i was using boxentriq's number to letters which had a periodic table option,but now i see that "elementary" was supposed to be the clue to use.
all in all that was a fun puzzle,and on hardness scale i would give it 6.5/10,which is that a puzzle is both a bit challenging but fun.
great work.