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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. Caesar cipher - Wikipedia

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    Caesar cipher. The action of a Caesar cipher is to replace each plaintext letter with a different one a fixed number of places down the alphabet. The cipher illustrated here uses a left shift of 3, so that (for example) each occurrence of E in the plaintext becomes B in the ciphertext. In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as Caesar's ...

  4. Tap code - Wikipedia

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    X. Y. Z. The tap code, sometimes called the knock code, is a way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis in a very simple way. The message is transmitted using a series of tap sounds, hence its name. [1] The tap code has been commonly used by prisoners to communicate with each other. The method of communicating is usually by tapping ...

  5. 20Q (game show) - Wikipedia

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    August 15, 2009. ( 2009-08-15) Related. 20 Questions (1946-1955) 20Q is an American game show based on the online artificial intelligence and handheld computer game of the same name. Licensed to and produced by Endemol USA, it premiered on June 13, 2009, during Big Saturday Night airing on GSN, and is hosted by Cat Deeley of So You Think You ...

  6. 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.

  7. UVB-76 - Wikipedia

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    UVB-76. A short clip of UVB-76's transmission as recorded in Southern Finland, 860 km (530 mi) away from the station in 2002. UVB-76 ( Russian: УВБ-76; see § Name and callsigns for other callsigns), also known by the nickname " The Buzzer ", is a shortwave radio station that broadcasts in Upper Side Band mode on the frequency of 4625 kHz.

  8. Codenames (board game) - Wikipedia

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    The game packaging includes 200 new word cards, which can also be used for the original game (provided that the language matches). The objective of the game is to reveal all 15 agents within a given number of turns without contacting too many innocent bystanders or the assassin. [5] Codenames: Harry Potter was released in 2018.

  9. Kryptos - Wikipedia

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    The dust jacket of the US version of Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code contains two references to Kryptos—one on the back cover (coordinates printed light red on dark red, vertically next to the blurbs) is a reference to the coordinates mentioned in the plaintext of passage 2, except the degree digit is off by one. When Brown and his ...