Welcome

[Harry]

Welcome to the Forum for the 23rd National Cipher Challenge, The mYstery of the Silver Bullet.

This is a great (and safe) place to give us feedback, to ask questions, to support one another and to spend some time getting to know the others taking part. To keep it that way we have a few simple rules:

Be friendly
Keep on topic (start a new thread if you want to veer off in a new direction)
Don’t publish anything which you could be embarrassed about later
Don’t publish anything which gives away your identity

If you are unsure about anything or there is anything we can help with that you don’t want to make public, then email us at [email protected]. We are always pleased to hear from you.

[pupko0]

hello, first time participant by the way, i just wanted to say the whole competition is a really cool concept and i look forward to participating. i was just curious, in the main competition are frequency analysers allowed as they save time? its cool if not i just wasn’t certain.

Welcome – hope you enjoy it! We provide a few tools here on the website (finding them is the first challenge) and you are free to use them. Anything not on our tools page you have to build yourself if you want to be eligible for a prize. If you can already code this is an interesting exercise, and if you can’t then you can either learn or use a combination of text editors and spreadsheets to build your own tools. There is some info about how to do that in our Library. Harry

[DJJJJ]

Hi, I know this sounds like an obvious question, but is the code on the silver bullet a key to starting the challenge, or coming to the conclusion? Many thanks, DJJJJ

[kman_on_top]

I think it should be obvious as the competition progresses, I don’t want to spoil it but best of luck otherwise.

[The_Mandem]

I think that the silver bullet could be very important later on in the challenge. If you read what it says next to the diagram it says it is the key to a door. So keep an eye on on upcoming case files or any doors we need to unlock. Best of luck […] 🙂

 

Sorry I deleted your signature, but best not to give away too much in this game! Harry

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