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  2. Beale ciphers - Wikipedia

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    A pamphlet published in 1885, entitled The Beale Papers, is the source of this story.The treasure was said to have been obtained by an American named Thomas J. Beale in the early 1800s, from a mine to the north of Nuevo México (New Mexico), at that time in the Spanish province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (an area that today would most likely be part of Colorado).

  3. Konami Code - Wikipedia

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    The code is also known as the "Contra Code" and "30 Lives Code", since the code provided the player 30 extra lives in Contra. The code has been used to help novice players progress through the game. The Konami Code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who was developing the home port of the 1985 arcade game Gradius for the NES.

  4. Pigpen cipher - Wikipedia

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    The pigpen cipher (alternatively referred to as the masonic cipher, Freemason's cipher, Rosicrucian cipher, Napoleon cipher, and tic-tac-toe cipher) [2] [3] is a geometric simple substitution cipher, which exchanges letters for symbols which are fragments of a grid. The example key shows one way the letters can be assigned to the grid.

  5. Kryptos - Wikipedia

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    1990. Dimensions. 11–12 feet × 20 feet. Location. George Bush Center for Intelligence, Langley, Virginia. Coordinates. 38°57′08″N 77°08′45″W. /  38.95227°N 77.14573°W  / 38.95227; -77.14573. Kryptos is a distributed sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ...

  6. Caesar cipher - Wikipedia

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    In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as Caesar's cipher, the shift cipher, Caesar's code, or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet .

  7. Chinese whispers - Wikipedia

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    Chinese whispers (some Commonwealth English ), or telephone ( American English and Canadian English ), [1] is an internationally popular children's game in which messages are whispered from person to person and then the original and final messages are compared. [2] This sequential modification of information is called transmission chaining in ...

  8. Pig Latin - Wikipedia

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    Pig Latin. Pig Latin is a language game, argot, or cant in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving the onset or initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable to create such a suffix. [1] For example, Wikipedia would become Ikipediaway (taking ...

  9. Enigma machine - Wikipedia

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    The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military. The Enigma machine was considered so secure that it was used to encipher the most top ...