Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Cryptograms

My coworker Izzy and I were doing puzzles over lunch for while. Someone had given him a puzzle of the day calendar and we went through the days puzzle. The weekend puzzle was like a bonus. We especially liked the cryptograms.

I stumbled onto the code-breaker website which would have been really handy back then. Type in the cryptogram and it will automatically calculate the letter frequencies and then allow you to perform given substitutions. I bet it makes for a lot fewer screw-ups.

UPDATE: If you'd like something to try it out, here is a cryptographed quote:
"ag dvu wapanatcsadg, cgx vgxyu dvu uyzvqnawcg iduj di rdpyugjygs, agsynnarygwy ao od farfnb fdgduyx sfcs as ao uykcuxyx qb ylyjzsadg iudj sfy wcuyo di diiawy." -cjqudoy qayuwy
This is courtesy of Clifford Pickover's Mind-Bending Puzzles.

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