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Old 08-18-2012, 07:44 AM
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Exclamation Is this a Cryptogram?

I have been working on this for some time. I am ready to give up.

Is it even a cryptogram?

ONNT-NPOY-NPNP.
NUNVNS-NRNV-NV.
NPNUNO-NRNR-NR.
NVNUNP-NP-NP.
NPNRNR-NQNO-NT-NU-NPNU-NPON.
NPNRNR-OY-NV.
NQNO-NQNQ-NU.

Anybody that can solve it and tell me how, would allow me to grow some of my hair back.

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Old 08-18-2012, 01:40 PM
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Hmm... well at first I thought it would be a fairly easy digraphic substitution, but
that didn't quite work. Do you have any more information or context? Where did
this come from(for instance)?

I'll play around with it some more
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Old 08-18-2012, 04:30 PM
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The letters seem to be in two kinds of pairs, N- or O-. That's as far as I got, because the resulting words max out at 3 letters long. Is there any chance that they are numbers, and this is a math problem?
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Old 08-18-2012, 06:23 PM
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Where did it come from? Was it on this site? I reads almost like a child's rhyme of some kind.

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Old 08-18-2012, 06:29 PM
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Could it be the lyrics to a rap song?
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Old 08-19-2012, 12:58 AM
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Its not a substitution cypher
too many instances of the same letter
i agree with Lurker ...it looks mathematical.
its not from this site, Iltquilt.
it might be nonsensical though.
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Old 08-19-2012, 02:08 AM
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Not sure why you dismiss a substitution cipher so readily. There are 10 distinct digraphs. So, replacing them with the digits 0-9 seems reasonable, although I cannot make out anything useful with the numbers - yet. I'm still waiting for additional information - and there must be some - even if that's so-and-so made it up. It's fairly easy to construct a nearly impossible to solve cipher for "short" messages.
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