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smayya337 wrote: February 13th, 2020, 4:29 am
olivia.m19 wrote: February 12th, 2020, 7:36 pm
smayya337 wrote: February 12th, 2020, 1:47 pm TELLMEHAVEYOUEVERKEYEDAFERRARIBEFORE
you can go ahead and post a question, no need to wait
sweet, here's one

Decode this interesting (and possibly disturbing) Aristocrat of a quote uttered by my English teacher in class yesterday. For context, we were discussing Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

T XCGPE JROKBJ KRDB MTN OKCGMRQE EGVROM OKRQ R YCGQE CH HPBMK, ABVRGMB T ECQ'O KRDB ZBHHJBL ERKSBJ'M VCCWACCW
i would rather have six thousand ducats than a hound of flesh, because i don't have jeffrey dahmer's cookbook.
decode this K1 aristocrat by John F Kennedy with a keyword of Kennedy
MTTGVMQDGO HGTTMCTU GDE GDIMCDV RTCNWEMICU JGOO SWMIBOF YLCD VLC SWCUVMQD QJ UWTXMXGO MVUCOJ MU GV UVGBC
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Name wrote: February 13th, 2020, 5:26 am
smayya337 wrote: February 13th, 2020, 4:29 am
olivia.m19 wrote: February 12th, 2020, 7:36 pm

you can go ahead and post a question, no need to wait
sweet, here's one

Decode this interesting (and possibly disturbing) Aristocrat of a quote uttered by my English teacher in class yesterday. For context, we were discussing Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

T XCGPE JROKBJ KRDB MTN OKCGMRQE EGVROM OKRQ R YCGQE CH HPBMK, ABVRGMB T ECQ'O KRDB ZBHHJBL ERKSBJ'M VCCWACCW
i would rather have six thousand ducats than a hound of flesh, because i don't have jeffrey dahmer's cookbook.
decode this K1 aristocrat by John F Kennedy with a keyword of Kennedy
MTTGVMQDGO HGTTMCTU GDE GDIMCDV RTCNWEMICU JGOO SWMIBOF YLCD VLC SWCUVMQD QJ UWTXMXGO MVUCOJ MU GV UVGBC
close, but one error - hound should be pound
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smayya337 wrote: February 13th, 2020, 7:25 am
close, but one error - hound should be pound
oh whoops lol. idk how i screwed that up.
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Name wrote: February 13th, 2020, 5:26 am
smayya337 wrote: February 13th, 2020, 4:29 am
olivia.m19 wrote: February 12th, 2020, 7:36 pm

you can go ahead and post a question, no need to wait
sweet, here's one

Decode this interesting (and possibly disturbing) Aristocrat of a quote uttered by my English teacher in class yesterday. For context, we were discussing Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

T XCGPE JROKBJ KRDB MTN OKCGMRQE EGVROM OKRQ R YCGQE CH HPBMK, ABVRGMB T ECQ'O KRDB ZBHHJBL ERKSBJ'M VCCWACCW
i would rather have six thousand ducats than a hound of flesh, because i don't have jeffrey dahmer's cookbook.
decode this K1 aristocrat by John F Kennedy with a keyword of Kennedy
MTTGVMQDGO HGTTMCTU GDE GDIMCDV RTCNWEMICU JGOO SWMIBOF YLCD VLC SWCUVMQD QJ UWTXMXGO MVUCOJ MU GV UVGBC
irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake
Solve this desperate patristocrat plea.
ZABLH AFPJS LUZLU KZELT BPZAG KFZOG LZMWA KWHLY PAGWM RUZHL LKMEA ELLCZ
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smayya337 wrote: February 13th, 2020, 10:01 am Solve this desperate patristocrat plea.
ZABLH AFPJS LUZLU KZELT BPZAG KFZOG LZMWA KWHLY PAGWM RUZHL LKMEA ELLCZ
somebody please answer my sounds question i beg you it has been two weeks

Given the ciphertext:

133749125943201953959112893450339263373411975473947151946509505460748322191881233833725237161289267510412094221925042610615

and the knowledge that 1 and 3 represent ●, 4 and 5 represent –, and 7 and 0 represent X, decode this Pollux-encoded description of my upcoming field trip.

edit: fixed typo
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dragonfruit35 wrote: February 13th, 2020, 9:41 pm somebody please answer my sounds question i bet you it has been two weeks

Given the ciphertext:

133749125943201953959112893450339263373411975473947151946509505460748322191881233833725237161289267510412094221925042610615

and the knowledge that 1 and 3 represent ●, 4 and 5 represent –, and 7 and 0 represent X, decode this Pollux-encoded description of my upcoming field trip.
students will metro to the hill and back Solve this Hill cipher which has been encrypted with the keyword DIRT: IPKLGLQMLJLZYROSKBRT

Also shouldn't it be beg instead of bet for the pat?
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jimmy-bond wrote: February 13th, 2020, 9:57 pm Also shouldn't it be beg instead of bet for the pat?
Oops, yeah it should be
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jimmy-bond wrote: February 13th, 2020, 9:57 pm

Solve this Hill cipher which has been encrypted with the keyword DIRT: IPKLGLQMLJLZYROSKBRT
UNCHARACTERISTICALLY
Solve this Bacon Cipher which is a quote from my physics teacher
YOUTH URBAN ZEBRA UTTER VAULT XERIC YOU GO UP HIS VEINS WORTH STUCK YELPS WORLD YAHOO VICKI WITH A VAGUE USAGE YIELD WORSE VOCAL UP FOR VIEWS WRONG UTTER XERIC WORKS TWICE WILLY TOKYO SWISS YOUTH CAVES BEAST
Hint: the first two words are "Do you"
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Name wrote: February 13th, 2020, 10:28 pm
jimmy-bond wrote: February 13th, 2020, 9:57 pm

Solve this Hill cipher which has been encrypted with the keyword DIRT: IPKLGLQMLJLZYROSKBRT
UNCHARACTERISTICALLY
Solve this Bacon Cipher which is a quote from my physics teacher
YOUTH URBAN ZEBRA UTTER VAULT XERIC YOU GO UP HIS VEINS WORTH STUCK YELPS WORLD YAHOO VICKI WITH A VAGUE USAGE YIELD WORSE VOCAL UP FOR VIEWS WRONG UTTER XERIC WORKS TWICE WILLY TOKYO SWISS YOUTH CAVES BEAST
Hint: the first two words are "Do you"
do you want higher grades or lower grades solve this quote from a tv show encoded with morbit cipher given that 3 = .. 6 = -x 9 = .x
37679866434248992939637498636397393664946852523496623453963749863639
 7 = x-      2 = .-        5 = xx
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olivia.m19 wrote: February 14th, 2020, 11:33 am solve this quote from a tv show encoded with morbit cipher given that 3 = .. 6 = -x 9 = .x
37679866434248992939637498636397393664946852523496623453963749863639
 7 = x-      2 = .-        5 = xx
i'm not superstitious, but i am a little stitious

Solve this challenging aristocrat straight out of my cryptography class.

ANUYJKHNFL JLNBL, NBENJK YNK KHNKIONS: JNYNHYJ - SNJKONS, INHKONS, JNHDSNJ ONBRNJ!
the letter 'E' does not appear in the plaintext
the 3-letter word is 'BUT'
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