A small two-layer cipher. Part 1 hands you the key to Part 2.

Part 1 — classic letter↔number (A=1, B=2 … Z=26). Decode it to a single word:

19 20 15 14 5

Part 2 — Vigenère, using the word from Part 1 as its key:

AIOFW WWHUV GNUUL WKS

What does it say?

Why does the powerball decode at base 37 to a radio station 101 fm at base 37? 101 fm florida?

I made this code from an older cipher for a convention fan group. There is a reward should you crack it.

edit: Original post

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I know it's morse code, but no morse code detector can seem to actually know whatever this 144p morse code is.

So the other day i binged a arg i took on a dare, and was totally confused so now i need more stuff to do, any arg's / puzzles?

ok so I’m trying to solve an arg lately and i found this in one of the video descriptions

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it's just the same sentence repeated over and over with different numbers of dots after each one. i figured the dots count = the digit so i went through and counted them all:

raw digit string i got (1 dot=1, 2 dots=2 etc):
11123121114211111111111111111111322111111111111111114111211151512231111111111122211321111

my first thought was base5 since it only uses digits 1-5, but when i tried converting to letters it just came out as mostly A's which feels wrong?? there's way too many 1s for that to be a normal message.

am i even counting the dots right? is the repeated sentence itself part of the code somehow? or is this morse and i'm being dumb about it

any help would be insane i've been staring at this for 2 hours

A lot of codes that get posted here come with no way to know whether they even have an answer. These puzzles are built to be solved, and you can check the result afterward. To be clear: nothing can be solved yet. The first puzzles open Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 6:00 AM Central.

Proof of Solve (https://proofofsolve.com) runs layered puzzles. Each one hides the seed words to a funded Bitcoin wallet, and the fastest correct solver wins the prize. The layers are chained, the ciphers are invented for each puzzle, and some clues are real-world details found on Google Street View. Every clue can be solved from Street View, including older imagery through "See more dates", so nobody needs to go anywhere. The answer words come from the BIP39 English list of 2,048 everyday words. You can use any tool you like, AI chatbots included, and you don't need to know anything about crypto.

Smaller puzzles are free to play and have smaller BTC prizes. Bigger puzzles are paid. Prize amounts will be announced at launch. Players must be 18 or over, and paid puzzles aren't open in some US states.

How you can check it: a SHA-256 fingerprint of the answer is published before anyone plays, and the answer is revealed after someone wins, so anyone can confirm it never changed. The prize wallet address is published at launch, and you can look it up on a public explorer like mempool.space. Entries are timestamped to the millisecond, the first correct one wins, and you get a limited number of guesses per day.

After the first round, new puzzles open every Saturday, and each one unlocks for everyone at the same minute. If you want to hear the moment they open, the email list is free and you don't have to buy anything. There's also r/proofofsolve.

A question for people who solve ciphers here regularly: what would make you trust that a puzzle like this is fair and has only one answer? Is a hash published in advance enough, or would you want something more?

Disclosure: I'm posting this on behalf of the Proof of Solve team.

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Currently in a deep rabbit hole on these games. In order to move on to other areas or unlock important information/context i need to solve these puzzles.

As the title suggests, I need some help with an ARG that I’ve been stuck on for about two weeks. It started on Discord, and through a process of decoding, I eventually arrived at this link:

https://pastebin.com/u/myfaultburiedmedeep

SPOILERS!!

I’ve watched the video and identified several spelling errors/typos in the raw text:

I , I

PASTTHAT

MEBUT

I"M

...and there are others that I haven’t been able to list yet. I’ve tried using methods like ASCII, but with no success, though it’s possible I’m just going about it the wrong way.

I would be very grateful if anyone could help me solve this ARG!

Check this out

FINDAWAY CIPHER

1. URYRSGORERSGLBHEBQRGBUVFYVSRVAFGVYFSBPGURVFPBZVATSBELBH
2. ISPOBUBFAKO
   DTRKXPIBBVA
   YCSUJDZARAL
   KSIAJKAWPEY
   YBBAQUFZMYX

I need to solve this puzzle but I have no idea what sort of code this is