Can you break this code?

Question

Neall · Accepted Answer

Does anyone notice the last name of the photographer, Mason, written on the side of the postcard? Or the classic stone eyes (check the back of your dollar's pyramid)? Liberty bell stamp? We got a genuine illuminati free mason here.  We've got a puzzle to keep me up all night here, buddy.  Edit: I give up. I assume the masons have the cipher.  Edit 2: Okay, this is keeping me awake. I started to form some theories about currency  there are 6 bills in the US treasury, 5 coins... 5 Roman Numerals from I,V,X,L,and C... But then I noticed, each block of characters is divided into groups of 3. This is a very effective means at ciphering, to break up normal spaces. IfI typ edl ike thi smy com men two uld bem uch har der tod eci phe r_. EDIT 3- Holy shit I solved it! Read my previous edit, about the spaces breaking up. The symbols are morse code, spacers, etc... :D But I won't spoil the surprise, there's contact info, I'll be dialing tomorrow. Don't want to lose my chance at init

Barnabas · Answer

Reminds me of the time I was buying groceries, I got to the checkout and dropped them all over the floor. The milk broke and many of my fruits were dirtied up. The manager came over, replaced all of them and gave it to me for free. $100 wroth of groceries for free!

Tysk · Answer

Are you Jake Gyllenhaal by chance? And did you receive phone calls with nothing but heavy breathing too?

Andrea Schulz · Answer

I JUST SEE A BUNCH OF SMALL FACES!

TYRA · Answer

TIL I am not smart.

Balin · Answer

What if they eyes signify something else, like looking at the message differently? I wonder how the code works differently when viewed in mirror-image?

Stephanie Vogt · Answer

Probably not going to be seen, but has OP tried removing the stamp? I had a book years ago that said keys or other information is sometimes hidden under there. Just a thought.  edit I used a word that didn't mean what I thought it meant.

Saana · Answer

I'm wondering if we are missing a clue in the contact info that has been whited out... I don't want to ask for that (ban) but I'm not sure we have all the info. Also, what does it say at the top between the eyes? Is it just his name, or something else?

Heike Hueber · Answer

qeqwfsadfasdfadf why did you have to do this before i went to bed

Caresa · Answer

Commenting so I can find this later.  There is likely omitted information. Please post an image of the other side of the postcard, along with the address and top of the postcard uncovered. (You don't need to uncover the entire address, but at least city, state, and zip.) I'll come back tomorrow.

Rokaja · Answer

Erhm, is it just me or does this look suspiciously like one of the cyphers from one of the Assassin's Creed games? Those character arrangements look awfully familiar. Maybe find the code wheels from that?

ghazala · Answer

is your friend named tim? EDIT: I'm getting TIMRIEC, but I'm not sure if it has any significance.. EDIT2: TIMRIKE, not TIMRIEC..

Anja Ziegler · Answer

my guess is that the symbols are numbers corresponding with their sides. given the highest number of sides is 4 they are probably base 5. Its not simply assigning 0 to A and 1 to B, (because that would leave most characters starting with a 0,) there must be some math being done on the numbers. more as I experiment with them.  Its possible that the three numbers together are to make it look like a cypher, and thus may be intended to mislead. Or perhaps it is a cypher where the each group of numbers is identified by finding the right words in a book, page, line, and word. it would have to be some sort of book of quatrains or something? I'm done with this for the night.

Sirvan · Answer

Secret decoder ring makes this super easy .

Katrin Kaestner · Answer

I can break these cuffs

Christina Kuefer · Answer

Is it possible they wrote it first and then decided to code it? It might just be me , but it looks like some letters behind it were erased. Example http://imgur.com/1hbE6

Tanja Grunewald · Answer

Why isn't that stamp cancelled?  That's what the code says.

Gracia · Answer

Dont forget to bring a towel.

MELVINA · Answer

Broken link. :/

Marian · Answer

I was sure I would be Rick Rolled.

Ela · Answer

For some reason, I keep coming back to the idea that the pupils in the eyes are some clue to what the dots mean.

Smith · Answer

All I see are little faces...I'm not sure if I should be sad that that's all I see in those symbols....

Nicolette · Answer

I'm pretty sure it's a variance of Morse code. Each letter is confined to 3 symbols yet a letter in Morse can be 1-4 dots and dashes and numbers 5. The Square, Triangle and dot/dash symbols could be used to either add additional dots or dashes or take them away to form different letters or numbers. I tried experimenting simply with square=2 dots triangle = 2 dashes and dot/dash = space filler and the dot and dash being as is. I ended up with this but the * nothing matched up. Still nothing but I feel like I'm on the right track  S Q B I R F S U X N P * Z 8 * * X 0 H Z  K B 8

Leah Wannemaker · Answer

Peel the stamp, could be another clue.

Petra Bosch · Answer

Letter from the zodiac???

Karolin Jaeger · Answer

Nope. Hours, man. HOURS! Fuck you and your post card from hell.

Heljo · Answer

does your friend have a first name or nickname? perhaps it's embedded in the code.

RUFINA · Answer

A couple of questions about this post card: 1) Who is it from? Does your friend know this person? 2) Any idea of the significance of the large eyes at the top?

Kristin Wurfel · Answer

Someone over in /r/codes suggested that there are two dot symbols, one closed, and one circle. Think you could take a better/bigger picture of just the code portion?

Sintija · Answer

Challenge accepted! Quick question, what country does your friend live in and what languages are they known to speak?

Marieann · Answer

"Some of the "dots" look like distinct circles, while others look like solid dots. It might be six symbols. I'm no expert, but.... Since there aren't enough symbols to each match to a letter, and a paragraph of six words seems unlikely, that leaves small groups of symbols to match to words or letters. Words would absolutely require a key, but even if they're just letters, the message is too short to solve. You could easily make up phrases until one fit. No solution, even the right one, is ever going to look like the only possible intended meaning. It seems likely to me that whoever sent this is messing with your friend, expects your friend to already have a key to the code somehow, or knows even less about this stuff than I do and thinks you ought to be able to solve it. "

Spence · Answer

As far as I can see there are 5 different symbols. Dot, dash, dot/dash, triangle and square. That gives a 125 different combinations for every 3-symbol sequence. You could set numbers to the symbols like 01234 and convert from base 5 to decimal. dash - 0, dot - 1, dash/dot - 2, triangle - 3, square - 4 Then you would get: 111 310 041 121 101 401 111 110 141 021 131 101 004 034 113 134 040 330 442 004 010 014 304  Which in decimal is: 31 80 21 36 26 101 31 30 46 11 41 26 4 19 33 44 040 90 122 4 5 9 79  Converting those to text through ascii ends up in nonsense though, so maybe this isn't right at all or I haven't assigned the right numbers.

Tanja Schwarz · Answer

What was the photo on the back? It could be relevant.

Petronella · Answer

Wingdings?

Anastassia · Answer

Anyone did an entropy calculation if it is real?

annmari · Answer

Maybe the face just has really bad acne on that one side...

Noble · Answer

"Below are the frequencies of each symbol, and the frequencies of their occurrence within each position of the three symbol groupings.   Symbol Freq. 1st 2nd 3rd    . 24 9 7 8   _ 21 9 6 6   sq 12 2 4 6   tri 8 3 4 1   ' 3 0 2 1   The frequencies of letters in each place correspond approximately to their overall frequencies. While the "_" symbol does demonstrate a slight first digit bias, N is not large enough to make this statistically significant. "

Mackenzie · Answer

-- -.-- / -... .-. .- .. -. / .... ..- .-. - ... .-.-.- / .. - / .. ... / ..-. ..- .-.. .-.. / --- ..-. / ..-. ..- -.-. -.- .-.-.-

ETHA · Answer

Step 1: Pick your favourite pentatonic scale. Step 2: Write program to map symbols to notes. Step 3: Enumerate all permutations. Step 4: Play each in 3/4 time. Step 5: Wait until a familiar melody springs forth from your speakers.

Leopold · Answer

Whats on the other side?

Andromachi · Answer

Pretty sure its The Lion King theme song.

Korney · Answer

I dont even know why my train of thinking went the way it did but heres something I threw together to play with if anyone wants to have a go. http://highcrimes.net/hatethisthing.html

Cora · Answer

Simple.  Eye(s) +23 groups of three codons +Mermaid on other side of postcard I + (23 x 3) + Mermaid I 69'd a mermaid

Eliise · Answer

"Says "hello sweetie" "

yasamin · Answer

Q. Can you break this code? A. No, I can't.

Petimat · Answer

Be sure to drink your ovaltine

sanja · Answer

I treated every 3 symbols as a letter to get this (randomly assigned letters): abcdefaghijeklmnhopkqrs There are only four repeated letters this way, and it has to be a short phrase. All I got was nonsense, the closest I got was in go up i was july chambleft which means nothing. EDIT: the sequences of three are probably individual words, not letters. I'm useless here. rides off on horse into the sunset

KRISTLE · Answer

Surprised no one has guided you to /r/codes yet , or /r/crypto or /r/secretcodes , it is likely more an appropriate challenge for /r/codes though.

inge-marie · Answer

Heres an idea. forward that letter to the President and let the secret service decipher it.

Yasra · Answer

It might be pig pen. Not sure.

SIGRID · Answer

pull the stamp see if he left a clue under it

Sophia Pfeifer · Answer

I found some information on artist listed on the photo credit: Brigid Mason ...and here is her blog. I don't see anything on these sites that will help break the code.

Eba · Answer

Does it strike anyone else as odd that the stamp is in the middle of the postcard?

Clareta · Answer

Visit all prankster friends and see who has both a red pen and post card stamps. Sit on them till they tell you what it says.

ROSEANNA · Answer

23 groups, 3 symbols per group i figure ask a musician to play it or a reply to the sender with a single hair from a hobo taped to a coupon for walmart. inside a envelope made from a miller beer can

SELENE · Answer

So CLOSE to having a working link... With only five symbols I don't think it's a letter-for-letter cipher. Patterns of three may correspond to words in a one-time pad type thing, but that's almost unbreakable and I assume this is supposed to be broken.

Titta-Maria · Answer

Here is a cut-out of the code, for those who want it.

Venke · Answer

Hmmmm This is all I saw. ._.

Gabriele Theiss · Answer

For what it's worth, I'm seeing 6 distinct symbols, someone correct me if I'm wrong: Triangle Square Dash Dot Open Dot (unfilled) Dot over dash

Vivecka · Answer

fractionated morse? The traingles could separate letters, the squares words, I have no clue about the dash with a dot. If you do this and map to morse, the first four characters are SWIF, however it falls apart on the 8 character string (longest morse is 7). Also don't know why the triangles/squares would show up next to one another. Edit:spelling

Somnuk · Answer

Have you thought of short hand? FTFY, LOL, BRB, ETC.

CLOTILDE · Answer

It's the cheat code for unlocking big heads on NBA Jam.

Wilhelmiina · Answer

This postcard wasn't sent through the mail system, the stamp hasn't been stamped. Perhaps it is supposed to be sent somewhere.

Jennifer Moller · Answer

Context hints:  two red eyes with a stamp of a bell for a nose and two cheeks with coding an image of a baby mermaid on the other side

Miira · Answer

._.

Katrina · Answer

The best I can figure is that the symbols are in groups of three with each group representing one letter. I tried assigning the following values: dot=1, line=2, triangle=3, square=4 and dot over line=5. This gives the following pattern: 111 312 241 151  121 421 111 112  242 251 131 121  224 234 113 134 242 332 445 224 212 214 324 What it means I have no idea. I'm mainly just leaving this comment so I can come back to it later.

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