Cryptograms

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I don't know if this is the right place to post this or not, but here's a link to a site I really like (warning, it's addictive!):

http://www.cryptograms.org/index.php

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Patti


Your Aspie score: 180 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 31 of 200

You are very likely an Aspie (Ya think?!?!? )

Oh, monophonic substitution ciphers! Easy to solve. I remember writing a piece of code that could analyse the structure of the encoded words in such simple ciphers that broke em - without - statistical analysis methods.

Btw, here is a good answer key to most (english language) ciphers: ETAONRIS (the 8 most frequently used letters, listed left to right in order of magnitude.


EDIT: One side note; given the times on that site, i wonder how fast people would solve the cryptograms if they did not know the quotes, or the hint given above i.e. "Aristotle".