Reply To: Challenge 10B
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28th December 2025 at 1:58 pm
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Crackerjack_404
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Now that we know 10B is a variant of four-square, a small amount of code can really help here.
Something that helped our team was generating partial plaintext from partially filled grids and use placeholders (like “.”) for unknown letters. The surrounding context often makes the next letters obvious, which can allow you to iteratively rebuild the grids and recover the keywords, without needing to brute force.