National Institute Of Technology Durgapur

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Maths N Tech Club presents

KRYPTIC
INSTRUCTIONS :
Each team should consists of three to six members.
Time limit 60 minutes
( * ) Mark questions are for tie breaker.

Team Name :
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1) Justin Case and Auntie Bellum are fellow con artists who deliver coded messages to each other to communicate. Recently Auntie
Bellum was put in jail for stealing a rare and expensive diamond. Only a few days after this, Justin Case sent her a friendly letter
asking her how she was. On the inside of the envelope of the letter, he hid a codes. Yesterday, Auntie Bellum escaped and left the
envelope and the letter inside the jail cell. The police did some research and found the code on the inside of the envelope, but they
haven't been able to crack it. Could you help the police find out what the message is?

This is the code:

llwatchawtfeclocklnisksundialcirbetimersool

2) There was a death on Treebark Ln. The victim was identified as Mark Oswalt, who recently was married. The police went to the
crime scene and they reported the death as a suicide.
Later that day, after the police left, a private detective, hired by the victim's friend who thought it was a murder, searched the crime
scene and found a note the police missed.
It read,
"4,3: 8,1:_: 9,1: 2,1: 7,4:_: 6,1:9,3:_: 9,1: 4,3: 3,3: 3,2: !"
The detective took out his cell phone and started dialing the police to tell them about his findings. Once the detective opened the
phone to dial, he immediately screamed out, "I SOLVED IT!"
Who was the murderer and how did the detective find out?

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3) What does this message say?
GTYORJOTEOUIABGT

4) Andrew Richardson, deputy head cryptographer at a top department of defence (DOD) facility, was working late one night. The last
set of codes he received to decipher came from NASA 's space station. Apparently they had been receiving the same 5 set of codes
over the past week on a high frequency band in visual digital format. They read...............
wmoa eemn cfuu orrs
wkia eesn ltpe ihlt
hwth oeno pgem eewe
wsta auob rnpl ispe
aust lmmd laui hnse
"Strange," Andy thought. "Never received work from this site before."
Eager to finish and get home, he set to work on figuring out the troublesome codes. The first one took him some time .............
WE COME FROM URANUS.
"What!" he laughed. He thought it was a joke or that he had deciphered incorrectly. However he continued using the same template,
and by the time he'd finished he wasn't laughing anymore. He quickly picked up his phone and dialed his director and then the head
of the DOD. Somehow he knew he wasn't going home tonight.
What did Andy find that got him so worried?

5) These are quotes from George Carlin, one of America's most popular wise guys. Can you decode them? Both puzzles use the same
code. Q=M "DPKLSUQ SU D ORO-TYRTKLP RYMDOSEDPSRO."
"'S DQ' SU YLTRYPLJWB PKL UKRYPLUP ULOPLOHL SO PKL LOMWSUK WDOMADML. HRAWJ SP FL PKDP 'S JR' SU PKL WROMLUP
ULOPLOHL?"

(KEY: A=U B=Y D=A E=Z F=B H=C J=D K=H L=E)

6) Find a short hidden message in the list of words below.

carrot fiasco nephew spring rabbit

sonata tailor bureau legacy corona
travel bikini object happen soften
picnic option waited effigy adverb
report accuse animal shriek esteem
oyster

7) This is a quote by a very famous person. Can you decipher it? I won't include capitals in the cipher.
"oltsitemsienevfruodngania."
-ebjnmanirfnalkni

8) Three boys were out hiking one day and they came across a cave. They went inside the cave for a while and when they exited, a
boy was missing. The other two went back inside the cave to look for him. On the walls were numbers in green paint that they hadn't
noticed beforehand. The numbers were as follows:
4 8 20 21 10 27 36 23 22
After they wrote the numbers in a notebook, they came across a letter written in the same green paint. It read:
Oh, it bothers me to write letters like this. Of how I came across this event I am not aware. However, things must be done. I have
written the numbers

on the walls. You must use these numbers to find my hiding spot. Good Luck. - The Missing Boy
How should you find him?

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9) Oh no! While separating letters to form quotes for a class project, you inadvertently mixed all the letters up! It is now your job to
figure out the code below! Hurry, your grade is depending on it!

i. Ni awtkr am- Tpy geni revira tsu jtni ala ined.

ii. Ye nsi dt law- Nw on kre vee vahin am owy nana hter omes uomye kci me voli.

iii. Namu rtsyr rah- Go date g not g nihs aw nid neir fat nawu oyfi.

iv. Ar rebig oy- esl eere hwem osp ud nell i wuo ye rasecn ahc gni og eru oy ere hwwo nktn odu oyfi.

10) A lift is on the ground floor. There are 4 people in the lift including me.
When the lift reaches 1st floor, 1 person gets out 3 people get in.
The lift goes up to the second floor, 2 people get out 6 people get in.
It then goes up to the next floor up, no-one gets out but 12 people get in. Halfway up to the next floor up the lift cable snaps, it
crashes to the floor. Everyone dies in the lift. How did I survive?

11) Three men walk into a hotel and rent a room for 30 pounds. But the hotel manager realized the room should have been only 25
pounds. So he sent the dishonest bellboy and told him to give 5 pounds back to the men. The bellboy cheated and said to the three
men the room was actually 27 pounds and gave them 3 pounds back and donated the other to his favourite charity. Where is the
missing pound because 25 + 4 =29?

12) Can you decode the following phrases? They are NOT regular substitution cryptograms, but they all follow the same rules.

1) Ni lkna rfnim ajnebse xat dn ahta ed tp ecxenia, treceb otdia seb nacgn. ~ Ihtondlr Owsihtni

2) Nilkn arf nima j nebdae, de ram eh tfoo wtf iter. ~ Cesapeek Yameerht

3) No tg nihsaw eg roege no dabana htes u cxe onr. ~ Effoot Rettebsiti

13) There was a old man who lived by himself. He felt tired so he went into the bathroom, went to the toilet and then turned the light
off before going to bed. The next morning there was a news flash on the radio that a boat crashed. The man opened the window and
jumped out. Why?

14) As two spies pass, they speak in numbers. Can you figure out what they said and what it is related to?

Spy 1: "4 4283 827733 843 54637."

Spy 2: "9428 343 968 4327?"

Spy 1: "93 4283 2336 7768833."

Spy 2: "8436 93 6878 53283 7666."

15) I love playing with letters and numbers. Can you understand my message?

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Harry 1-2
Heaven 4-5

Gravity 3
Winnie 4-5
Advice 5-6
Doctor 1
Eat 2
Yummy 5

16) Can you decipher the names of animals listed below? (Each letter stands for one other letter)
rzrajsmy
yohrt
nrst
zopm
fph
vsy

Hint
drsz is seal

17) To lighten the mood at your next school board meeting, you decided to crack a few jokes. Only one problem; Jack (a jealous rival
board member) got nosy and thought it would be funny to switch up the order of the phrases. Can you figure out the quotes and who
said them in time?

1. Me htdn u of sya w lait ub, to lade vo mst ner apymd ikasa win ehw.

2. Oid arad narets aotae rews y othta bym. Emde tahs tner ap y mta htll etdlu oci.

3. Tell awsi h hti we maco hwdi kehtf oe rutc ipeh tdn uor a se ir racreht afym.

-Dlei fregn adyen Dor

18)( SOLVING THIS QUESTION CAN GIVE U LEAD ON 2 QUESTION)

At the age of eighty, King Winthrop started having doubts about the true intentions of his children.... after all, he was the ruler of
Winthropland and he wanted to make sure his wealth was put to good use after he left for the heavenly abode.

To this end, he set a test for both his sons.

He created two maps of the treasure, and gave both of his sons a copy of both the maps. He
was sure the son who was the most righteous would choose the correct map and reach the treasure.

One night, old King Winthrop was no more. The next day after the funeral, both the sons set out, each deciding on a different map as
their father had envisioned.

Donald Winthrop followed one map and reached a graveyard. There, he found an open grave and a note inside which said...

OOFFER!
TAME.FOR
GNHEREIS
NYSONWSU

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IMESTHTC
HNHEHOHH
TOCAEREA
OTHGILBS
NEVAHINO

Knowing his father's love for cryptography, he could easily see the message and burst into a fit of anger. Legend has it that he can
still be seen in the

graveyard pulling his hair out after what his father did to him!

Ronald Winthrop followed the other map and also reached another graveyard where he found a marble vault without a coffin. Atop
this vault were inscribed the words...

NDTREASUR
IHTEOUSSE
FGISVAUOE
DIHNEWLNN
NRTOTHT.O
AYSEHOIOU
!TMDNIFSPG
RLDEEDNIEH
EUAVSIHTNT
VEROFTSALO

Ronald smiled and took the treasure that was rightfully his. Legend has it that the people of Winthropland never wanted for anything
in their life and neither did Ronald himself.

hint(MIDDLE-T-SPIRAL CLOCKWISE)

19) Once upon a time, there was a land filled with wisdom and intelligence in the form of pearls.
Most of the quotes we use today come from this land, which was called Lifeland.
However, each pearl of wisdom was safely hidden under a Cryptoweb and called a Cryptopearl, because in those days, words were
considered to be powerful weapons. You had to earn a Cryptopearl to learn some new piece of wisdom about life.
Once you successfully opened the Cryptopearl, you were then awarded with whatever life changing information was inside that
Cryptopearl. If you opened 4 Cryptopearls successfully, you were knighted as the Lord of Life.
In this way, over generations, many such pearls have been passed down to us. Four such Cryptopearls are given below, in their
original form.
Can you open the Cryptopearls like the ancients did and find out what famous life's teaching it holds? Here's your chance to become
the Lord or Lady of Life!
1. WEIE HRLI EELS RITA ESHW TAEA HWRY.
2. NVDG OENG TNOA HTTI IUHN NRIE GEND.
3. AISD FNAI RNFN IERD EEIE NDEE DIND.
4. YTRE OHCA UAAT CVKI AEET NYAT NONO OUDO.

HINT(1 TO 1 ,2 TO 2 ,3 TO 3 ......)

20) A man walks into a Chemist looking a little embarrassed. He whispers something into the chemist's ear. The chemist then pulls
out his gun and points it at the man. The man smiles, thanks the chemist and walks away. What did the man say to the chemist?

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