There’s about 5 more pages of writing after this. Some letters appear on their own often so I assume it’s A or I, but beyond that I’m not sure how to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated!

Here is a public instance of the first part in the "Messages From Within" octalogy in the game VRChat: https://vrch.at/wrld_b0de8a7d-2368-4f5d-b7a4-f16adc1e7921

I’ll try and keep everything I want to say brief. I stumbled upon these worlds a few days ago on VRChat while searching through the random worlds tab. There are some puzzles and exploration bits that I find somewhat convoluted.

So far I have found 2 codes apart of a 5 part code that your suppose to input in order on the very last world of Messages From Within. The 2 codes I found are both 4 digit numbers and found in two different worlds in the octalogy, this makes me think there is at least one code for 5 of the 8 worlds. I wont share the codes here since they aren’t really cryptic, but if you wanna know what they are ask in the comments and I’ll get back to you.

In the very first world you have to solve 3 puzzles to open these gates. The first two puzzles are pretty straightforward, but the last one is convoluted in my opinion. You have to find these three invisible boxes in order from left, right, top. There is a square on the main path with three points that correspond to where the invisible squares are in reference to each other and these big rectangular boxes with a glowing red like in the middle of them. Once you find them(eventually) the text popup to click on them reads as follows in order:

6-2-12-24-11-18
2-12
22-8-6-25-8-11-13

My immediate thought was that it corresponds to english letters, but when they didn’t spell anything coherent I left it there. Does anybody know how to decrypt this?

Another code I found is from the 4th world in the octalogy. Theres a really dark and large room you get to at the end of the world that has large rectangular pillars and what looks like some kind of door at the end of the room. If you go to the other end of the room where the door is there seems to be no way to open it, but when turning around there is red text on the right pillar that reads:

vo ay eH ue es na ml lh eet y?t

When clicking on it it changes to "see you soon"
Does anybody know how to decrypt this as well. The y?t reminds me of youtube, though there could be no correlation whatsoever.

And that’s all the cryptic stuff I found from these worlds so far. If anybody knows what these codes mean I would appreciate it if you commented it.

VRChat is free on steam, I would recommend checking it out. If you want me to show you around the worlds and show you everything I have discovered so far, comment or message me and I’ll be sure to give you my steam and/or vrchat handle.

Thank you guys for your time

I've got a roommate who is finally moving out soon, but they wrote this note and put it up on the fridge and im curious if this is some weird way of telling me they're annoyed without actually telling me (would be very normal for them, they do shit like that all the time). Am hoping you guys can have a crack at it.

Heres a transcript of the text from what I can tell:

apuyaksafaqhldrhygtsyelwdgmwsbygsptm.ltp.llnmmpabdptyt.kagosf.EPPVISHCASEERGABSNOMACCASPESTOS

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I work at a popular retail chain in the US. Today I had a customer come in who returned a baby monitor, not because it was damaged or anything but because what was found in it. She found this note (picture attached) and got scared. Our co workers are curious because we have never had something like this come to our attention, especially in a baby monitor. Does anyone know what this means? If anything at all? Please let me know to end my search.

EDIT: The company of the baby monitor was Nanit

Ps (111=3) (0=stop)

Community Days is our monthly Patreon ARG puzzle drop for November 2026 and for a limited time, the first 5 puzzles are available to everyone. Start playing here: https://community.cicadachallenge.com/

Community Days is a collection of puzzles created by members of the Cicada Challenge community which players access in a random order by spinning a gameshow-style wheel.

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I found this metal detecting, buried about 8-10" in the ground. They were about a mile apart in my city of Colorado Springs. One located at Palmer Park and another at Natural Park. They have the exact same code on them. I also dug up a box of ammunition buried in a metal container between the areas, and I wonder if they have anything to do with eachother. If anybody can help, I'd appreciate it! I'm trying to find answers on what the items are for my upcoming video describing them. I hope this is the right subreddit, thanks!

Greetings,

Codes/characters have been showing up on the break room white board, and all my internet searching hasn’t turned anything up.

My main concern is that it’s potentially targeting an employee or is possibly derogatory towards groups of people. Knowing this crew, it’s most likely silliness, but I want to do my due diligence.

Please help if you can.

Apologies, I couldn’t manually type it out on my phone. If you folks really need it I can update on my PC when I get home.

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Im a paraeducator, had a sub in social studies today. They distributed "fun packet"... with this. Whats going on here??

Found in this wallet, on top of my mailbox. Any ideas?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with classical cryptography concepts and wanted to design a custom "toy cipher" that dynamically adapts its key based on the structure of the plaintext itself.

Here is a simple example to show you how the plaintext changes into ciphertext:

• Example Plaintext: Hello secret agent

• Example Ciphertext: Mjqqt nzxmzo gmktz

The Main Challenge:

Can you decrypt this message and explain the rules of how my cipher works?

Ciphertext: [Hvs xkzfbkq thw afpzlsboba sx rfc klgghq wbugvyl ylclhslk lzw hadfw kvoc xs rfc irujrwwhq jretklrip. Nooz sepdej znk jlrkqxfkp, k sdzl sj bcbgayrcb jalqjnxuxprbcb gzoahqdqp jacrojlcb kyrk gleppirkih uluhojxydw rewkxsdi hjwnagmkdq lovsofon stgml ymj lofdfk ul cypjw hnanqnefyntsx.]

Additional Context:

This is an original toy cipher that I designed myself as an experiment with classical cryptography. It wasn't taken from an existing cipher or external source.

• Expected plaintext language: English.

• Ciphertext origin: Generated using my own encryption algorithm.

• Available information: The plaintext consists of multiple English words. Spaces and punctuation are preserved.

I'm intentionally keeping the encryption mechanism undisclosed so that people can try to reverse-engineer it independently.

I'm interested in seeing your approaches, observations, and explanations of how the cipher works.

I have this audio that i changed to a quest with my friends, do someone can let me know if it give you something? (Sorry if my english is so bad I'm not American)​

I came up with this code by myself, expected language is a combo of English and French. Hint is Shakespear. Treasure, Clock, Ocean, Universe, Tree, River, Turtle, Storm, Owl, Yacht, Sun, Star, Light, Flower, Tiger, Hedgehog, Bird, Factory, Guitar, Bean, Cloud, Orange, Drum, Bee, Mountain, Shadow, Water Lily, Train, Adventure, Galaxy, Emergency, Church, Railcar, Oil, Silver, Roof, Brine, Sea, Egg, Snow, Head, Eagle, War, Plant, Water, Here, Job, Inside, Gravy, Black, Gold, Kidney, Eight, Dog, Walnut, Finger, Ship, Tool, Laugh, Blossom, Bone, Work, Assignment, Nose, Ear, King, Spider, Wheel, Honey, Nine, East, Fox, Cheese, Iron, Neck, Spark, Boat, Hurricane, Network, Lightning, Sailor, Yellow, Darkness, Shirt, Yesterday, Light, Rose, Apple, Wings, Meal, Bread
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Blitz cipher

Helllo guys i am new to cryptanlaysis and well i decided to start working on the cold cases to learn it and stuff .

I have been really intrested in this cold case of blitz cipher , and well i think i have a theory and would like someone to review it

To learn more about the blitz cypher here is the linkhttps://ciphermysteries.com/other-ciphers/blitz-ciphers

Now to my theory , one famous theory is that the code can be dencrypted using a cadan grille and that the 20x20 table was the main way to do so , thus while looking at the table this what i have found

Now this theory shows that the table isn't random it has a geometry , which is essential to a caddan grill . This is my theory though .

When i added the gap 1,3,4,4,4,3,1 it added to 20 so the countt makes sense .

SO what do you guys think is this a real thing in a cold case or like is it a false peek

A friend of mine is very into secret codes and puzzles. She recently changed her discord avatar to what may seem like an imitation of hers of Velma from Scooby (someone who looks like her anyways, so it's not undeniable it's "not" actually supposed to be of Velma as is actually said) holding up a custom pigpen cipher. This is the cipher.

I, of course, am not going to show the whole avatar, since privacy is sacred on this site.

She says any elements of ambiguity would be intentional for a few reasons: One, it gives plausible deniability since she doesn't want too much emphasis on the connection between the picture and her, two, the picture is a mixed media gif image and the specific circumstances would make it look odd to have something explicit, and three, it adds interpretation to it (since it's Velma-coded). However, when it comes to being both ambiguous and interpretable, there are concerns such as whether the ambiguity was done too well, so I was wondering for the sake of debate how many different ways an audience would be able to interpret it more than what is being intended.

The photo quality also doesn't help, probably. Not sure.

Strangely or conveniently, AI tends to interpret the code just fine. The code supposedly is supposed to say "i am themonthofjune on discord". The debate arises over whether it can be interpreted in however many other ways by humans in all their flaws, as well as if the translation for the code given is the best one even despite these other possible interpretations. I'm not sure if it's a part of the ambiguity, but she chose (for at least some of the letters) to make them share lines, which was common sometimes in Freemasonry where the code originates but which I can't tell if it helps or not (I am too used to pigpen ciphers to be able to put myself in the shoes of a newbie anymore). So is the code readable as intended?

After I found this random comment from TikTok, I think this is likely a cipher or code with bunch of arrows, pipes, numbers, and little uppercase characters. What does that mean

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Friend sent me this and only said, “You’ll figure it out.” Please help? Expected language is English

Trying to figure out what word she has written that I’ve highlighted from a girls diary from Vermont in 1885. The inside of the cover from the diary has a word that looks really similar that I think might be to decipher what it means. Any help would be appreciated!

There’s a visual code I learned way back when that I just went to use and realized I entirely forgot how to do it or what it’s called.
I learned it from Parallel by Simon Singh in about 2020ish. It’s no longer in the Parallelograms where I learned it, and I don’t see any sort of archive I can look at.
You start by making a grid and writing zeroes and ones along the top and sides (photo included). Then you start filling in squares. A one goes across as filled in, empty, filled in, empty, and so on. A zero is the opposite: empty, filled in, empty, filled in, etc. I included a photo where I did that for the numbers along the top.
But then I go to do the numbers down the side and I… have no idea what to do from there.
It always makes pretty patterns of diagonals because of the alternating nature of it. It’s easy to decode what zeroes and ones were used given just the grid with the pattern.
I would love to know what the name of this is so I can remember how it’s done.

Edit to add: there are ALWAYS little things that look like flowers or plus signs with the middle removed. They’re ALWAYS enclosed that way. I believe they can also have two middle spaces removed. And then diagonals that can encapsulate them or go off the page. Tried to add a picture but Reddit won’t let me. I’ll try to use emojis to approximate.

⬜️⬛️⬜️
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⬜️⬛️⬛️⬜️
⬛️⬜️⬜️⬛️
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Context for anyone who missed the first round: kesumela.com is a site written entirely in a constructed script — over a hundred lines across five pages, plus five technical diagrams, with a romanized transcription under every line. I posted it here in July and pretended I had stumbled onto it. Several of you saw through that within hours: the domain was five days old, the account was two days old. Fair enough. I'm dropping the pretence, because what I want to say next only works if I'm straight about it.

Sample, from the first page:

xumaxeka lovelase tesumilu livelumi tusa
lovelasu xuvesuma lisusumi texu
xumaxeka lisunose tevesula xumalaka lixisumi xumasuka sino
xuvexika livekami tesuxelu lisukelu tomo

First, credit where it's due. This sub took the surface apart faster than I expected:

• the 8x5 CV syllabary, dots for vowels, underline as a stress marker

• the final two-syllable word as a checksum: sum of the pairs mod 1600

• the whole corpus client-side, no server, no API, no hidden dictionary

All of that is correct. The most complete write-up concluded that there was no further technical layer, and that the remaining work was pure linguistic decipherment.

That was true in July. It is not true now.

On September 11 I put a locked document on the site. Not a riddle dressed up as one: real encryption, AES-GCM, key derived with 600k rounds of PBKDF2. It sits at an address nothing links to, and a normal visit will never load it. The key is not stored on the server, in any form. Parts of it are hidden in material you have already looked at, in the five diagrams.

So you know I'm not making this up as I go, here is the SHA-256 of the plaintext behind the lock:

03b6286abea1c52eddc723350690c407608439404920d7ca9e7ab5b3bda96f27

Whoever opens it can hash what they find and check it against that line. It won't match anything I write later, because I can't change it now.

What's behind the lock is not a congratulations screen. It gives you three things about how the language actually works that nobody in the July thread had — one of them confirms something a commenter here got right without knowing it. It is not the dictionary and it never will be, but it is the difference between guessing and analysing.

The key is in pieces, and the pieces are not words. They are sitting in plain sight in the diagrams, formatted to look like something you have already decided is boring.

That's as much as I'll say about where. I'll answer technical questions in the comments, and I won't tell anyone whether they're close.

Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/1v5e9sf/ Site: https://kesumela.com

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Here is a book code. To find the book, and more information, go to https://www.reddit.com/r/a2e7j6ic78h0j/

1:20

2:3

3:5

4:20

5:5

6:53

7:1

8:8

9:2

10:4

11:8

12:4

13:13

14:4

15:8

16:4

17:5

18:14

19:7

20:31

21:12

22:36

23:2

24:3

25:5

26:65

27:5

28:1

29:2

30:18

31:32

32:10

33:3

34:25

35:10

36:7

37:20

38:10

39:32

40:4

41:40

42:11

43:9

44:13

45:6

46:3

47:5

48:43

49:17

50:13

51:4

52:2

53:18

54:4

55:6

56:4

57:24

58:64

59:5

60:37

61:60

62:12

63:6

64:8

65:5

66:18

67:45

68:10

69:2

70:17

71:9

72:20

73:2

74:34

75:13

76:21

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my friend sent me this cipher and i can't solve it, i've tried for the past 3 hours: MGA: EJGGUG TLZIJWG PX EIA SRWYYJ YXQKNNOWK OH SE YVUHUAWW - AMK ZQMY: UHI

all i got was key cheese but i can't get anything else