Playfair

You open the file called “keyword_cipher.txt”. Maybe this will help you get out of here.

But it’s just a bunch of meaningless letters and an empty grid!

F PIK F CURY DHZ2 LAON!

You can use this document to assist you.

keyword_cipher "Scratch Paper"

It must be some kind of a cipher. But how to break it, without Alan Turing and a computer… oh, wait.

You search the old computer’s file tree and find a text file called “Playfair.txt”.

Pay dirt!

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Well, now you know how to decode a Playfair cipher, but what good is that, when you don’t know this cipher’s keyword. What could it be?

DID YOU KNOW? The cipher is explained and solved in the classic mystery novel, Have His Carcase, by Dorothy L. Sayers. Find it in Princeton Public Library's collection: The Gospel in Dorothy Sayers (Anthology), DVD, OR E-Book (Hoopla)

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