Can you decipher the following messages? They don't necessarily use the same coding pattern.

1) irrew frg xprt. mf ucpoy jre.
2) uodakw tsf ioaivdh mt skjdo ishd

Once you’ve deciphered them, can you figure out the complete coding patterns? What is going on here? Can you now encode the following words using the corresponding coding patterns?

1) wax
2) zip

(In reply to re: A handicap (spoilers) by nikki)

nikki, the steps to get to the solution where:
1) Get information (See my first posting)
2) Wait (max) a couple of hours for Charlie to post the solution
3) If step 2 doesn't work, get to work.  In this problem, I wondered what could be the substitution algorithm.  Then O.O.O. posted the first halve of the solution, using a simple substitution code.  And I was convinced that there could not be a simple substitution code being a mathematical equation discribing the substitution.
4) I gave up and went to bed.
5) Next morning I remembered that the encoded words where written on a qwerty keyboard, so maybe, if I hit the keys on the same place on my azerty keyboard, the message would make sense. It didn't, but I remembered that your login name sounded japanese.  So maybe a japanese keyboard was used.
6) I googled 'keyboard' and found 5 or 6 different layouts, one being the dvorak keyboard, from that moment on it was easy.

I don't understand how O.O.O found the solution, without the Dvorak connection!

Posted by Hugo on 2005-01-26 15:06:45