Codes and Cryptography
Set 1: Logiki
Set 2: Kodikos
Set 3: Grifos
Set 4: Dialectium
Set 5: Codex
Set 6: Aenigma
Set 7: Empeiros
Puzzle 1: Solving the sudoku as below and taking the numbers in the spots of the red numbers in the order, gives the final password of "6551.""
Set 1 Puzzle 1 Image
Puzzle 2: Solving the Futoshiki, would give you a completed grid. Taking the colours in terms of the order of the rainbow (using the clue G1 = Genesis 9:13), yields the answer "2242333".
Set 1 Puzzle 2 Image
Puzzle 3: Solving the nonogram would give a QR code, which gives the word """Romantic"".
Set 1 Puzzle 3 Image
Puzzle 4: You have to fill up the wordle and complete the grid. Afterwards, it says that you should float over, so hover over the text to find a set of numbers. Using the numbers and the grid to crossreference, you get the word "PRAISE".
Set 1 Puzzle 4 Image
Puzzle 5: The common saying is X marks the spot, and another word for priest is a bishop. Using the bishop's move starting from X, you can only get the word "TRADES".
Puzzle 1: The puzzle is encoded in binary, which gives the answer "PROMISES".
Puzzle 2: The puzzle is referring to dot and dash in morse code, which gives the answer "ADVANCE".
Puzzle 3: The puzzle is encoded with Vigenere, and the key is "Octopus", which when decoded, gives "ARTIFICIAL".
Puzzle 4: The code is in Base64, with the first half hinting to it. When decoded, you get the answer "CONGRESS".
Puzzle 5: The code is in Semaphore Flags, which when decoded, you get "THE PASSWORD IS DISPOSITION".
Puzzle 1: The clue is leading to Lady Liberty, who appeared on the Statue of Liberty, and the Walking Liberty coin made in 1916 to 1947. The clue freedom will give Liberty as well. Thus, the answer is "Liberty".
Puzzle 2: All the words there are compound words. So, the answer is "Compound".
Puzzle 3: The first clue there is a link to a youtube video, which has a hashtag in the description. Looking at the second word of the hashtag, you get "Miss".
Puzzle 4: The bolded words are Apery, Pie, and Log. The similarity is that Apery's Number, Pi, and Log are all infinite numbers. Thus, the answer is "Infinite".
Puzzle 5: The code says "Alice with the Queen of Hearts. What did they play?" in braille. Looking online, you will see that Alice in Borderland, a manga and a show, has a Queen of Hearts, which was the game Croquet.
Puzzle 1: This is an 8x8 Binary Puzzle. The 0s and 1s in colored strips can be read as dots and dashes of Morse, ordered by the lyrics of Colors, by Stella Jang: “I could be Red, or I could be Yellow. I could be Blue, or I could be Purple. I could be Green, or Pink, or Black, or White. I could be any color you like.” The morse translates to "LANGUAGE".
Puzzle 2: To get the second piece of the puzzle, you can see that the image is label as 2A, so to get the second piece, you have to change it to 2B. This 8x8 magic square is from Benjamin Franklin, where the sum of columns and rows is 260. When you take the number and its character counterpart in numeric order, you get “This piece of art marks the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. (9)”, to which the answer is "LABYRINTH".
Puzzle 3: The labyrinths are all part of the Labyrinth art project for the 150th Anniversary of the London Underground. Following along, using the line indicated (each line is colored differently on the official map), you write out the answer, "BUSTLE".
Puzzle 4: This is an 8x8 grid of (John) Conway’s Game of Life. Advance it by one iteration, and the lit squares in reading order spells "GEOMETRY".
Puzzle 5: This is a 12x12 Minesweeper. The marked cells, when read in groups of 2x3, read out Braille for “The answer is APOCALYPSE.”
Puzzle 6: This is a 6x6 Aquarium puzzle. The shaded cells, when read in reading order, reads “The answer is ASSEMBLY.”
Puzzle 7: This is a 6x6 Battleships puzzle. The shaded cells, when read in order of the length, with reading order taking precedence in case of multiple ships, spells “Ans. is TOWER.”
Puzzle 8: This is a 9x9 Skyscrapers puzzle. When solved and read in the order mentioned, it reads “THE ANSWER TO THIS PUZZLE LOSES TO SPOCK AND PAPER BUT WINS AGAINST SCISSORS AND LIZARD. BIG BANG!”, a reference to The Big Bang Theory, more specifically to the game of Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock. The sign clued is "ROCK", the answer.
Puzzle 1: This is a Multitap Code, which is basically on a mobile phone keypad, and replacing it with the corresponding times you click to get the letter. The code gives "RETURN".
Puzzle 2: The line written there, is a popular comedic line from Futurama. The code is the alien language from Futurama, which gives "FUTURE".
Puzzle 3: The line written there is referring to the Riddler, which is the song he sings, and a line that he says. The alphabet is the code he uses in the show, which says "RIDDLES".
Puzzle 4: The first line is encoded in the Polybius Cipher, and the second line is telling you to make an alphabet key with "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog", which gives "THEQUICKBROWNFXJMPSVLAZYDG", but without the last letter as requested. Using this, will yield the answer "ARCADE".
Puzzle 5: The text above says "BACKWARDS MESSAGE", which is something Gideon says while summoning Bill Cipher in Gravity Falls. Using the Bill Cipher Alphabet Key, you get "ILLUMINATI".
Puzzle 6: The equation is relating to Affine Cipher, and when you substitute in the numbers, you get the word "GRAPH".
Puzzle 7: The image is a photo of the moon, which is relating to the Moon Alphabet. Using the Moon Alphabet to decode, you'll get "THE PASSWORD IS GIBBOUS".
Puzzle 8: The word SKIP is bolded, which is referring to the Skip Cipher. Using the clue of 13 times, you get "THE ANSWER IS LETTERS".
Puzzle 1: The clue SS, but in the US is leading to the secret society in the US. Additionally, a synonym of confidential is Secret. Using the codenames from the different prominent figures, and taking the first letters, you get the word "AGENTS".
Puzzle 2: The first line is referring to Only Murders In The Building, a show where a bunch of people living in the building make a podcast to solve a crime. The second part of the clue is referring to Bunny Folger. Folger is one letter away from Forger, which is a copycat. She owned the building, also known as the "ARCONIA".
Puzzle 3: Using the arrows and tracing out, you will get a set of numbers, which are "5813".
Puzzle 4: The clue is referring to the 7 wonders of the world. Reversing sedohR, gives Rhodes, which has the Colossus as one of the 7 wonders of the world. If you follow the rule of reversal, you'll get "SUSSOLOC".
Puzzle 5: The answer is "ABBA", as they sang "Money, Money, Money", and "Honey, Honey". ABBA is a palindrome as well.
Puzzle 6: The clue is referring to the Pokedex, and when you take the first letters of the pokemon index numbers there, you get "CATCH".
Puzzle 7: The first part of the clue is referring to Stranger Things. The year that Will, also known as Will The Wise in his campaigns, was found was in "1983", which is the answer.
Puzzle 8: The 13 Iridescent Globes is referring to Yog-Sothoth, who is a monster in Lovecraft. He is made by 13 Iridescent Globes. The first number is the globe number, and the second is the number of the letter. The exception for this one, is the Ɛ:Ɩ. This is telling you to take M, which is the 3rd letter of the first globe. However, it is upside down, so you should flip it over. Piecing everything will give you "DUNWICH".
META PUZZLE: Using the answers from the other puzzle sets, and using the numbers like a book cipher, you get "FOURTH".
Puzzle 1: TCS are referring to the keys on the keyboard. Tab, Caps Lock, and Shift. When you substitute the symbols for the numbers corresponding, and follow it based on the TCS, you get the answer "KEYBOARD".
Puzzle 2: The clue talks about the Neva River, which was where Rasputin died. The password of the ZIP file is "Rasputin", and when you open it, you get a wav file. Using audio spectrogram, you get the word "Scomparire", which is translated to "DISAPPEAR".
Puzzle 3: The image is the Coat of Arms for Afghanistan, and the colors are wrong. If you take the hex colors of the flag in the puzzle, and translate it over, you get "MAHARAJA".
Puzzle 4: The image tells you to dig deeper. Inside the image, hides another image. There is a grid of letters inside. Additionally, the puzzle is Nurikabe, as you can find the name when you hover over the puzzle title. Solving the Nurikabe, and placing it over the image, you get "RUFUS VOICE ACTOR LAST NAME PLEASE". The answer is "CARTWRIGHT", who is the voice actor of Rufus, in Kim Possible.
Set 7 Puzzle 4 Image
Puzzle 5: The obvious name is guiding you to The Explicit Name, which is the Shem HaMephorash. Using Vigenere on the text, you get the names. When you take the demon name from the Angel, you get "APOCALYPSE".
Puzzle 6: The code above is Octal, which decodes to moderntreasure.tumblr.com. When you hover over the text "right here", you can see a youtube link, which leads to HandClap. Using that as the password, you get a total of 7 encoded messages, which pieced together says "YOU ARE THE REASON SINGER FIRST NAME". Thus the answer is "CALUM".
Puzzle 7: The clue has the word bold in it, which means that you will need to look at the image and find the hidden bits. Inside the image, hides another image, which is a poster of Wicked. Additionally, when you click on the word "left" in the clue, you get redirected to a wav file. The song is a song from Future Boy Conan. Using Futureboy to decode, and placing "Wicked" as the password, you get the word "INVISIBLE".
Puzzle 8: The line "GET OVER HERE" is a famous line from Mortal Kombat. When you find all the words, and align them up, diagonally from top left to bottom right, you get "SUFFER".
Puzzle 9: The clue should be split up into 2. The first part "Run, 4" is relating to RC4 Cipher, due to "Run Comma 4". The second part is The Modern Flame, which is referring to The Modern Prometheus, which is Frankenstein, a book and a movie that came out in 1994. Using Frankenstein as the password, you get "STREAM".
Puzzle 10: The clue says that there are keys hidden around. When you hover over "first" and "second", you get words. These words are hidden in the chapters, and when you hover over those words, you get the keys. The cipher is Two-Square Cipher, as it is also known as the Double Playfair Cipher. Decoding it, you get "DATAMINING".