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Impossible Cipher

Posted by rajesh on September 26, 2010 – 6:47 pm

Here is one for some of you to try.


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  1. 1. 123_TAI_MAI_SHU Said：
    September 27th, 2010 at 10:28 am

    impossible is right.

  2. 2. Karl Sharman Said：
    September 28th, 2010 at 10:09 am

    It is the alphabet.

  3. 3. Chris Said：
    September 29th, 2010 at 6:27 am

    Hi Karl, can you provide more detail? Is it anything to do with that amazing book in the Yale library?

  4. 4. 123_tai_mai_shu Said：
    September 29th, 2010 at 7:42 am

    this is called the dorabella. its impossible to solve and has been that way for over a hundred years. the man created this cipher sent it to some girl in a letter form and it has been unsolved since.

  5. 5. Chris Said：
    September 29th, 2010 at 9:12 am

    I see (behind the scenes) that a 123_tai_mai_shu has recognised that this is the Dorabella Cipher. There’s a Wiki on it. I hadn’t heard of it before.

    It was written by Edward Elgar to a friend of his, a Miss Dora Penny. Dora claimed that she doesn’t know what it means.

    A very likely solution is here: http://unsolvedproblems.org/S12x.pdf
    Read it all before dismissing it.

  6. 6. Karl Sharman Said：
    September 30th, 2010 at 12:09 am

    Well, I was way off the mark there. I had guessed the 24 letters and assumed it was the latin alphabet (no J or W) and was working on it from there!
    However, Chris’s likely solution – I’m not keen on ;-)

  7. 7. tony Said：
    October 4th, 2010 at 5:33 am

    The correct solution can be found here -

    http://www.aerobushentertainment.com/crypto/index.php

  8. 8. Dylan Said：
    October 14th, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    in the cipher when it says that it deletes all repeated letters then works it way backwards makes no sense, theres pleny of repeated letters not deleted, it seems as if he just arbitrarily chose letters to not include in words that you could still figure out even if you took some letters out.

  9. 9. Karl Sharman Said：
    October 15th, 2010 at 10:15 am

    After a lot of wasted time –

    Ego fides ut vos vadum intellectum meus causa pro specialis scriptor vobis commodo matrimonium vestris mi

    It’s a proposal of marriage….

  10. 10. Sadie Said：
    December 27th, 2012 at 9:29 am

    How did you get that Karl?!

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