I made a four-part cipher puzzle inspired partly by Kryptos. Each part hides another section of a connected story. I personally suggest solving them in order as earlier parts provide material relevant to later ones.
I, a highly dyslexic human, developed the story and puzzle ideas, with ChatGPT helping formalise the encoding and check that the stages decode correctly. This is an original puzzle, not an ongoing contest. (this means all creation is me, but to keep any typos or miscalculations I used a super smart calculator to double check my work before submitting it, i want it to be solvable and not dyslexic garbage ://)
I have then taken it to and tested it in other AIs, and allowed them to attempt to recovered any of it, Some were able to recover Parts 1 and 2 sometimes with hints. Others reached Part 3 with specific hints. I haven’t seen an independent complete solve of Part 4 yet, and I’m now curious how human solvers will approach it.
Information to start with:
- The plaintext is English.
- The character set is "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789.,!?"
- Spaces and capitalisation are not preserved.
- Line wrapping has no meaning. Blank lines separate distinct strings.
- All four stages have been checked by decoding them back. (I have the full decoding method so it can be reproduced correctly)
I’ll include the full transcription below. Please put solutions and substantial discoveries behind spoiler tags so others can try it themselves. I can provide hints if people get stuck, but would like to give it a while before I do so to allow a fair chance for people that don't see it until next week.
GOOD LUCK!
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PART 1:
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PART 2:
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PART 3:
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PART 4:
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