Caesar Cypher & The Substitutions have been on tour, and as tradition dictates, the souvenir tour T-shirt bears a list of the cities visited on the back. But of course, since we're talking about one of Europe's leading cryptographic jazz combos, the list is in code:
080476
410488
631428083607
735616461
440401478
235476731
540631
616431
461546410
The list contains no information apart from the city names. Can you work out their itinerary?
Before I go any further, I should probably apologise for rating this as
a 3, but I honestly didn't think it was going to cause as much
head-scratching as it has. In fact, I thought someone would spot
the solution straight away.
OK, hints and tips then. Don't go messing around with Linear B
(Honestly, I'm not *that* devious!), musical notation and lat and long
- it really isn't that difficult. You need to know the alphabet
(obviously) and a bit of math whch shouldn't be beyond anyone who likes
cryptography problems. No geographical knowledge is required to
crack the code, only to recognise the answers when you see them. It's
one city per line. The first one is perhaps a little more obscure than
the others, so if your geography isn't so hot you might want to ignore
it until you've you've figured out the code. The rest of them should be
well-known enough not to cause any problems.
Hints and stuff
