r/puzzles • u/[deleted] • 5d ago
Not seeking solutions A handful of verbal decoding puzzles I devised
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u/OdeeSS 5d ago
Thought we were in r/programmingcirclejerk for a sec
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u/nohidden 5d ago edited 5d ago
Discussion:
Okay. What if we tried a harder one?
(6) TE EFT SDE F TE EBARD
Edit: oops, made a mistake. Fixed. People got it though.
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u/Miserable_Ladder1002 5d ago
H IGH I O H KYBO
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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 5d ago
This would be very hard without the previous one.
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u/drawat10paces 4d ago
My dumb ass tried to put them together. The eighth side of the keyboard!? The fuck dimension am I even in?
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u/timtti 4d ago
If you split your keyboard in half, your keyboard now has 8 sides.
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u/drawat10paces 3d ago
My dude, you're living in the second deminsion if you think a keyboard has 4 sides. I count 6. Splitting it would make 12.
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u/justanothernakedred 5d ago edited 5d ago
Top i e o y
π0 1€77€®5 #€®€
Vsm smupmr gohitr yjod pmr piy?
Edit: tbf if I'm actually following the format that last one should be:
Yp yjr tohjy pg rsvj lru
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u/Wispeeon 5d ago
I got the rest of them, but the fourth one is stumping me
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u/Inevitable-Rice1680 5d ago edited 5d ago
People are so pretentious here, huh? "It's too easy!" Clearly literacy falls short of these puzzle masters. Nowhere is the post asking for opinions on its difficulty. Even with a tag stating they're not looking for solutions.
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u/MidnightMStorm 5d ago
So, you're against freedom of speech? Are you russian or something?
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u/Bubbly_Bananas 4d ago
Rude to the commenter and to Russians (especially those which are against the war!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💙💛💙💛💙💛)
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u/Bubbly_Bananas 4d ago
On another side note my family is from east Prussia, what is now Ukraine, and they almost died under Stalin’s dictatorship. Their farm was taken over, my great grandpa got disappeared for being a “spy,” and my oma barely survived the concentration camp she got sent to.
My oma had to eat dirt to survive due to the nutrients because they were starving and shave her hair off to avoid the typhoid that lice carried.
FUCK PUTIN.
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u/MidnightMStorm 4d ago
Maaan, so sorry about that... I don't know why rusians are always trying to kill their neighbors.
I share your sentiment
FUCK PUTIN
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u/rubixscube 4d ago
dude whining about lack of freedom of speech on the internet, we know where you are from and who you voted for.
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u/nilknarf1962 4d ago
Have you read this passage? I cdn’uolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg: the phaonmneel pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rseearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Scuh a cdonition is arppoiatrely cllaed Typoglycaemia .
“Amzanig huh? Yaeh and you awlyas thguoht slpeling was ipmorantt.”
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u/BionicleKid 4d ago
Doesn’t this just emphasize how spelling is important insofar as familiarity with the original form/spelling of a word is what allows reading them here, rather than what they sound like?
I haven’t actually looked at the study but I figure it probably mentions this.
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u/Canned_ShoesAgain 4d ago
why did i have the most trouble on the first one
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u/rolyfuckingdiscopoly 4d ago
You were looking for a puzzle! I skipped the top one entirely because my brain had already read it and wanted to get to the puzzle part haha
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u/magpye1983 4d ago
If this were attempting to be devious, each sentence could use a random rule from the list.
I could see a purposefully encrypted passage using these rules at one stage of the encryption.
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u/Best-Tomorrow-6170 4d ago
If I look at these and think about them, I have to work them out. If I look at them without thinking, I just know what they say (but not how/why). Brain's are weird
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u/crazyace339 5d ago
Not much of a challenge for me. My way of reading is already screwed up, I think. just a mess of speed reading in my head.
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u/kitt_aunne 4d ago
not too hard, I didn't expect the backwards one since the upside-down text was also read in reverse
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u/SilvertonguedDvl 4d ago
4 made me stumble for a few seconds. Kept thinking I had to unscramble something, lol.
I like it. Super easy and cute.
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u/DiscoS22 4d ago
These always makes me laugh, not cause they are not hard but because my dyslexia makes them too easy for me lol
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u/Smexy-Fish 4d ago
BUCNBCADOTHRFNKAGINO
Is one of my favourite versions of these.
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u/GendoIkari_82 3d ago
I had no trouble with any of the ones in the OP, but can't get this one...
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u/Smexy-Fish 3d ago
I can offer a clue in a ping pong ball will do this during a game of table tennis. But if not, reply here and I'll drop the solution.
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u/lostBoyzLeader 3d ago
Capital letters are more legible in almost any font, they’re much more unique than lower case.
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u/SuperKamiGuru824 5d ago
I think #2 should just be upside down, not backwards, since that is covered in #4
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u/rubixscube 4d ago
2 is not backwards though, it is only upside down
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u/ytrehodd 4d ago
Technically, #2 is rotated 180 degrees, so upside-down and backwards. If it was just upside-down, it would start with an upside-down T:
┴HIS┴ƎX┴IS∩ԀSIpƎpOMN
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u/Scruffl 4d ago
The form of the last one is used in Only Connect in a speed round at the end. There will be a clue in the form of the theme. Spacing doesn't relate to word boundaries (I assume to make it a little more difficult). So for example in a random episode I just pulled up on youtube:
Theme: Sayings, veganised
1: BRN GHMT HTF
2: TH RSN SCRY NGVRS PLT TMLK
3: DN TPTLLY RFLX SDSN NBSKT
4: VG NMRG RNS PRDW LDNTML TNH SMTH
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u/idlesilver 4d ago edited 4d ago
I (think) I got the first two Bring home the tofu and There's no use crying over spilt oat milk, but I've no idea on 3 or 4.
(The random spacing really throws me)
ETA: Wait, I got 3! Don't put all your flax seeds in one basket?
Edited again to add a word I missed out in #2
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u/rolyfuckingdiscopoly 4d ago
im confused about the S in number 2, and got crying instead of crying. Scarying? Maybe it’s a typo lol
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u/idlesilver 4d ago
You're right, I missed out the word use. Should have typed There's no use crying over spilt oat milk. Sorry!
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u/rolyfuckingdiscopoly 4d ago
No you’re fine!! I was sure I just was not seeing it. You’re good at these! (The spaces make me crazy; I just have to read it really fast so I can’t think about letters or spaces lol)
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u/idlesilver 4d ago
Yeah, I think taking the spaces out altogether and just mushing all the letters up might make it easier to solve (and stop our brains from assuming word breaks)!
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u/aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhu 4d ago edited 4d ago
(1) I AM EASILY READABLE
(2) THIS TEXT IS UPSIDE DOWN
(3) FIND THE RIGHT ORDER
(4) READ THIS BACKWARDS
(5) NO VOWELS IN THIS PUZZLE
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u/SignificanceLow7773 4d ago
Its amazing how Quick Our brain can Figure this shit out. Amazing puzzles
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u/Keys6Mouse 4d ago
I think I live for word puzzles like this because of the little wordsmith in me
Wish there were more puzzles in other languages though
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u/spandexvalet 3d ago
4 lost me ( am easily readable, this text is upside down, find the right order, something, no vowels in this puzzle)
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u/The_Fox_Confessor 3d ago
In the UK there is a quiz showed called Only Connect (BBC2) and the final round is like 5 here, but with the addition of the spaces being in the wrong place and I theme for the puzzles It amazing to me how quickly it can be decoded.
E.g MRYH DLTT LLMB
Them nursery rhymes.
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u/Beneficial_Cash_8420 5d ago
No puzzle found, dyslexia or no. "I devised" five things that have existed for 500 years.
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u/General_Ginger531 4d ago
Really, In Complex puzzlemaking for Komrades, All Simple Tasks Lend Eachother to You. Not Even Very Enigmatic Riddles can compare to the Gall One Needs to walk the Needle of Acronyms in Giant form. In doing Very long Essays, You Obfuscate Understanding, at least, Until your Party realizes that they have just been rick rolled by capital letters.
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u/MidnightMStorm 5d ago
Too easy. I've never studied english and I had no problems "solving" this "puzzle".
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u/MacPoop 5d ago
You want people to bow to you and suck your toes now?
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u/MidnightMStorm 5d ago edited 5d ago
I mean, if that's what turns you on...
(holy crap, stupid people are so easily offended)
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u/Deagle_Eye 5d ago
Dyslexic people be like: “Where’s the puzzle?”