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Cipher Puzzle
I made up my own cipher, it's not based on any well known ones. See if you can work it out. I'll give clues.
ALRU LURN NBER HHOU CPNB EUPA NAKR BTAT HUUH
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Re: Cipher Puzzle
I think I'll need a clue...
Try not to make it too cryptic!!
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
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Re: Cipher Puzzle
OK...a clue can be found somewhere in Sherlock's bedroom.
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Re: Cipher Puzzle
Aw man I thought I was getting somewhere until I hit BTAT 
Back to the drawing board!
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Re: Cipher Puzzle
The upstairs neighbour cannot move their furniture quietly qnd so I leave you with what I have caught from the 'bleeding' half hour:
Nine letters divisible by four reference points...
ALRU LURN NBER HHOU CPNB EUPA NAKR BTAT HUUH
1,12,18,22 - 12,21,18,14 - 14,2,5,18 - 8,8,15,21 - 3,16,14,2 - 5,21,16,1 - 14,1,11,18 - 2,20,1,20 - 8,21,21,8
Q T U Y Q Q P G V
Repetition:
U, R, H, A, L, N, T, B, E
From 'clue':
ALRU (54) Xe - very dificult to bond with
1,12,18,22
LURN (65) Tb
12,21,18,14
NBER (37) Rb
14,2,5,18
HHOU (52) Te
8,8,15,21
CPNB (35) Br
3,16,14,2
EUPA (43) Tc
5,21,16,1
NAKR (44) Ru
14,1,11,18
BTAT (43) Tc
2,20,1,20
HUUH (58) Ce
8,21,21,8
Xe Tb Rb Te Br Tc Ru Tc Ce
Phone Keypad:
22 26 18 22 17 20 20 20 24
^ I hope it's of use - I'm off to bed.
-m0r
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Re: Cipher Puzzle
You're on the right lines with the clue...it does indeed involve chemical elements...
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I was thinking periodic table:
ALuminium
RUthenium
LUtetium
RN Radon
NB Niobium
ERbium
Hydrogen
HOlmium
Uranium
Carbon
Phosphorus
Nitrogen
Boron
EUropium
PA Protactinium
NA Sodium
KRypton
Boron
TAntalum
(T HUUH)
Guess it meant nothing...
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
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You're right Molly, but that's only the first part of the cipher...you need to go deeper.
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Sorry, I'm not a very DEEP person!
I'll keep thinking (or trying to...)
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
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Ha! Reminds me of a guy I once knew. Someone else when describing him said, 'Deep down inside...he's a really shallow person.' it was true too!
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Wow this is hard
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- Molly Hooper
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Does it envolve the numbers of the elements?
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
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Getting warmer...
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it can't correspond with letters of the alphabet, there are only 26..
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
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...Could be more than one alphabet though....
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*idea*
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
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Re: Cipher Puzzle
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
didn't work (i'll try changing what they stand for)
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
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Re: Cipher Puzzle
elements---fire, water, clay, and wind
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SHERLOCK!!!!!!
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They are natural elements kitty, not chemical elements.
Geez hope this message wasn't urgent, the world could end before it's solved, lol.
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I've got something,
Mr shopoan fog ekn k deug anna!
Is that it?! 
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
