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Is Kryptos the Mayor of Foursquare?
I’ve been looking for a likely candidate to try out decrypting my potentially un-superenciphered Kryptos K4 strings. Is it foursquare? I don’t really know, it makes more sense than bifid (can’t use...
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Kryptos Foursquare with right to left break after addition
Here’s a look at Kryptos K4 with the BERLIN break with the additive string, notice the double F’s which is not possible in the same decryption grid for foursquare. There are of course other ways of...
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Kryptos Foursquare with left to right break after addition
This one didn’t fair much better. It would have been nice if the F’s had mapped to the same location. At least there’s still the subtraction. -Kryptosfan Tagged: foursquare, k4, kryptos
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Kryptos Foursquare with right to left break after subtraction
At least these aren’t impossible. What’s it look like the other way? -Kryptosfan Tagged: foursquare, k4, kryptos
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Kryptos Foursquare with left to right break after subtraction
And here’s the other way of looking at it. Iqlusion? -Kryptosfan Tagged: foursquare, k4, kryptos
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Trying to fit keywords to the potential Kryptos Foursquare(s)
Harder than one would expect if this was how Kryptos was enciphered… I’m not saying I didn’t find any but only could if you ignore the general rules for using a keyed alphabet, i.e. not repeating...
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David Stein’s Descriptions of Solving the 1st 3 Parts of Kryptos
Look, if WIRED can use Kryptos filler then so can I. I’m still trying to figure out where to go with things. It’s tempting to try a transposition with the 98 letters instead of the 97 and see if I...
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Sherlock Holmes was NSAutistic?
Not a new proposition but maybe a new way of considering it? Okay, so he’s autistic, he’s bi-polar, he’s depressed, he’s Asperger’s, he’s social anxiety; he’s a lot of things. Okay, so he notices...
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Kryptos K4 as a grid, part 1 of 4
So I took the presumed 98 letters of the 4th part of Kryptos and put them into some grids, here’s the first one: Not much stands out to me but it’s nice how it makes a nice grid… -Kryptosfan Tagged:...
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Kryptos K4 grid, part 2 of 4
So here’s the same type but a different direction of filling a 14×7 grid with the letters from the fourth part of Kryptos: My only regret is scanning the whole sheet instead of cutting it down. That...
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Kryptos K4 grid, part 3 of 4
blah blah blah – another Kryptos K4 grid picture… Believe it or not, this is one of the first ones I did. You can tell because I didn’t leave myself enough space. -Kryptosfan Tagged: grid, k4, kryptos
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Kryptos K4 grid, part 4 of 4, best for last
This one is my favorite and was originally going to get posted on the 1st but I thought there was a chance people would think I was kidding so here it is on the 2nd. I like that the double letters...
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Relevance of Isograms in Kryptos
Here’s a minor interruption to introduce isograms and discuss one aspect of their relevance in Kryptos. An isogram is a word that doesn’t repeat a letter. I was trying to find words to fill my...
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Kryptos K4 copperplate idea
So after gridding out Kryptos K4, an idea occurred to me. Perhaps my additive was right but wrong. If it fits as a grid then maybe lining up SOTPYRK would be similar to the CT on the left and...
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Kryptos K4 additive charting
Alright so we line up the potential Kryptos additive… Yay -Kryptosfan Tagged: additive, k4, kryptos, SOTPYRK, that's a lot of white space
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Kryptos additive charting math
So I dragged my heels on this for what felt like forever but I did the addition and subtraction of SOTPYRK and K4 mod26: and used different colors for each type. I carried that paper in my pocket for...
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Stripping subtractive SOTPYRK from K4
And then what does it look like for adding SOTPYRK? This, it looks like this. -Kryptosfan Tagged: adding, k4, kryptos, SOTPYRK
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Adding the subtractive foursquare filled right to left
And then we take a look at how the foursquare would look: What a looker! -Kryptosfan Tagged: additive, foursquare, kryptos, SOTPYRK
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Adding the subtractive foursquare filled left to right
Here’s the other way of trying to find the keywords Super awesome -Kryptosfan Tagged: additive, kryptos, SOTPYRK, subtractive, tags
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Stripping additive SOTPYRK from Kryptos K4
I know you were wondering what this one looked like We all were -Kryptosfan Tagged: additive, kryptos, SOTPYRK, subtraction
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