BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Cipher Puzzle

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** May 17, 2012 1:46 pm

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

**Posted by Molly Hooper** May 17, 2012 8:25 pm

I think I'll need a clue...

Try not to make it too cryptic!!

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** May 17, 2012 11:55 pm

OK...a clue can be found somewhere in Sherlock's bedroom.

**Posted by Wholocked** May 18, 2012 12:20 am

Aw man I thought I was getting somewhere until I hit BTAT

Back to the drawing board!

**Posted by m0r1arty** May 18, 2012 3:47 am

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

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** May 18, 2012 2:10 pm

You're on the right lines with the clue...it does indeed involve chemical elements...

**Posted by Molly Hooper** May 18, 2012 5:31 pm

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...

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** May 18, 2012 11:52 pm

You're right Molly, but that's only the first part of the cipher...you need to go deeper.

**Posted by Molly Hooper** May 19, 2012 8:07 am

Sorry, I'm not a very DEEP person!

I'll keep thinking (or trying to...)

**Posted by Davina** May 19, 2012 11:18 am

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!

**Posted by Ellen5000** May 19, 2012 12:09 pm

Wow this is hard

**Posted by Molly Hooper** May 19, 2012 3:21 pm

Does it envolve the numbers of the elements?

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** May 19, 2012 4:04 pm

Getting warmer...

**Posted by Molly Hooper** May 19, 2012 5:44 pm

it can't correspond with letters of the alphabet, there are only 26..

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** May 20, 2012 12:30 am

...Could be more than one alphabet though....

**Posted by Molly Hooper** May 20, 2012 6:11 am

*idea*

**Posted by Molly Hooper** May 20, 2012 6:30 am

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
didn't work (i'll try changing what they stand for)

**Posted by sherlockskitty** May 20, 2012 6:50 am

elements---fire, water, clay, and wind

**Posted by kazza474** May 20, 2012 9:33 am

They are natural elements kitty, not chemical elements.

Geez hope this message wasn't urgent, the world could end before it's solved, lol.

**Posted by Molly Hooper** May 20, 2012 10:06 am

I've got something,
Mr shopoan fog ekn k deug anna!

Is that it?!