Ciphers and Puzzles from Competitors

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@Madness, I haven’t used a mixed alphabet cipher yet! (Nor any monoalphabetic ciphers for that matter…)

TLW Additive Alphametic
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An alphametic(sometimes called a cryptarithm) uses meaningful words with
a Digit for Letter substitution that are made into a addition puzzle.

There are just two rules to be followed for puzzles and solutions:
The leftmost letter can’t be zero in any word.
Letters and Digits are used on a one-to-one basis.

Here is one I made, it has only one (base 10) answer, can you solve it.

>CROSS
>ROADS+
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DANGER

The Twitter Posting
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My Answers to the post.

>STAY
>SAFE
>SAVE+
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LIVES

There are 9 different letters giving
19 Solutions For base 10

Y E S A F V T I L (1)
0 2 4 5 8 9 7 3 1

Y E S A F V T I L (2)
0 2 4 5 9 8 6 3 1

Y E S A F V T I L (3)
0 2 4 6 7 9 5 3 1

Y E S A F V T I L (4)
0 3 6 4 2 7 8 9 1

Y E S A F V T I L (5)
0 7 4 5 2 9 8 3 1

Y E S A F V T I L (6)
0 7 4 6 2 8 5 3 1

Y E S A F V T I L (7)
1 4 9 0 8 6 5 7 2

Y E S A F V T I L (8)
1 4 9 6 5 3 0 8 2

Y E S A F V T I L (9)
2 7 6 4 3 9 0 8 1

Y E S A F V T I L (10)
3 8 9 1 0 6 4 7 2

Y E S A F V T I L (11)
5 1 7 8 9 4 6 3 2

Y E S A F V T I L (12)
5 9 3 4 6 7 8 0 1

Y E S A F V T I L (13)
6 9 4 8 2 7 0 3 1

Y E S A F V T I L (14)
7 6 9 4 0 1 3 8 2

Y E S A F V T I L (15)
7 9 5 3 0 4 8 6 1

Y E S A F V T I L (16)
7 9 5 4 3 0 2 6 1

Y E S A F V T I L (17)
8 3 4 0 5 7 6 2 1

Y E S A F V T I L (18)
9 2 3 6 7 8 4 0 1

Y E S A F V T I L (19)
9 7 3 6 4 5 2 0 1

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There are 9 different letters giving
1 Solution For base 9

>STAY
>SAFE
>SAVE+
======
LIVES

Y E S A F V T I L (1)
7 4 6 1 3 8 5 0 2
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@Madness Re: TLW The 27 Tiles Problem

All your hash codes check to the 3 correct answers.
83da002899ca1e2384a38251094d759f977ff51f 😉

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KA-1 Hint Five!
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I know we have all been kept busy with many puzzle offerings but…

I am a little surprised that non of the top solvers (those constantly at the top of the leader boards)
have not posted solutions to my ciphers, apart from Madness and Bubble-Sort that is.

Please let me know, are they really too hard?
Have you done 1,2,3, but not 4 of the Mini Challenge?

Be assured that I will post solutions to ALL my postings before the challenge comes to an end.
Best TLW.

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KA-1 Hint Six!
This is the last hint to KA-1. Hopefully you get it with this…
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KA-1 News!
For Hint Five, there is a part in brackets that corresponds to the previous hints. This does not apply to the original cipher; use Hint One for that!
Hint Six is a Caesar Shift Cipher.

[10degrees-admin]

@The-letter-wriggler, I actually haven’t solved Challenge One, never mind Challenge Four!

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KA-2!
2CBTBGLMFGLTCCLABMIFLVBTKTEIDOBRDQEA2ITCW5DN2V4DCOEQHE4OXAKOBOIFPEKTFOLSKTDOKTUCLBH52NBRJMBFTO1ZDOBRES1GBELBCMW515NFA7XAKCNINE4DCFUCJM4A4DHOXAPFDBJI2BKO2VAAOAFMK7KLUOKORCD5TCW5BR

If you can’t solve this yet, don’t panic! Hint one sends you through a multi-step process to work out the keys! (And there is more than one key!)

Please submit answers in the form KA-2 WORD1 WORD2 WORD3, where WORD1, WORD2 and WORD3 are three words from the plaintext.

[10degrees-admin]

KA-1 News:
I will give the solutions to the hints by the end of Friday (depending on how much time I have), and the solution to the original cipher on Monday.

[10degrees-admin]

KA-1 Answers – Part One!

Hint One:
Solved this cipher? If so, use a similar cipher to solve the original one, but in three dimensions…
(Polybius square, with key ‘polybius’ and labels reading down the across, not across the down. I used the numbers 0-4, instead of the numbers 1-5.)

Hint Two:
Hint one describes the original cipher. All other hints provide hints on other hints. Hint three will be a transposition cipher.
(Vigenère cipher, with key ‘vigenere’.)

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KA-1 Answers – Part Two!

Hint Three:
Do you spot a pattern in the keys? The key is the same as the cipher used! (For numbered keys it relates to the first letter or word.)

Hint Four:
The keyword for the original cipher is ‘trifidcipher’.

(Note! Mistake! I accidentally did this with a columnar transposition cipher instead of a permutation cipher! The keyword is still ‘permutation’, however.)

[10degrees-admin]

By the way, Hint Three was a columnar transposition cipher, with key ‘columnar’.

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KA-1 Answers – Part Three!

Hint Five:
Hint one is a fractionating cipher, with the original cipher being a three-dimenstional version of this. Hint two is maybe the most famous polyalphabetic substitution cipher around. hints three and four are both transposition ciphers. (all these ciphers can be found at ‘crypto.interactive-maths.com’.)
(Caesar shift cipher, with key of 6 and alphabet shown in Hint Six. Typo: I put in ‘three-dimenstional’; I meant ‘three-dimensional’!)

Hint Six:
The alphabet for the previous hint is a space, a full stop, a comma, a question mark, an exclamation mark, a forward slash, an opening bracket, a closing bracket, a hyphen, an apostrophe, and the normal alphabet (in that order). It is the same cipher as this one, with twice the key number.
(Another caesar shift cipher, with key of 6 and normal alphabet.)

Good luck with the original cipher!

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KA-1 News:
Another typo! In the answer to Hint Six, I said the key was 6. I meant to say it was 3!

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