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?

There are nine numbers on the telephone with asociated letters (newer phones put Q and Z on the 0).

Perhaps the digits represent one of the three letters on the numbers. Obviously, we can't use the straight phone code since the number 9 has letters and 9 never shows up, and 1 has no letters, but the number 1 appears in the puzzle.

If we rearrange the letters like this:

0 - ABC
1 - DEF
2 - GHI
.
.
.
8 - QZ

410488 becomes
MDAMTT
NEBNUU
OFCOVV

and

540631 becomes
PMATJD
RNBUKE
SOCVLP

I can't see any city names in either of those two.

Maybe a different association of letters with numbers?

Posted by Erik O. on 2004-11-09 21:52:52