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MORE WIRED PUZZLES
—Still trying to answer some of the leftover questions in the WIRED issue. Based on an idea from Nick Tierce on the Brad!cal blog, I converted the code on the “LOST numbers” page to letters based on a repeating cycle, where “A” could be encoded as 1, 27, 53, or “B” could be 2, 28, 54, etc. Anyway, once the numbers were converted to letters, I tried a Vigenere cipher (inspired by the Kryptos article) and took random guesses at code keys. Sure enough, by my sixth or seventh guess, I decoded the message:
“USE LETTERS BACKWARDS FROM END”
from the first page of numbers. Now I have to figure out what the second page is all about.
