NeonCipher & Rugbit
NeonCipher NeonCipher
Rugbit Rugbit
Rugbit Rugbit
Hey, I just built a little gizmo that turns my kitchen scraps into a secret code! Want to help me crack it?
NeonCipher NeonCipher
Sure, just give me the output of the gizmo and the rule you used to encode the scraps, and we’ll see if it’s a simple substitution or something more twisted.
Rugbit Rugbit
Alright, the gizmo spits out “ZK‑QJ‑MPL.” The rule I used was super silly: take each word of the recipe, count the letters, then shift each letter forward that many places in the alphabet, wrapping around when you hit Z. It’s basically a rotating Caesar cipher that changes each time, so if you try it on “soup” you get “ZK,” on “pepper” you get “QJ,” and on “sauce” you get “MPL.” It’s a bit of a laugh, but try it and see if it’s the right taste of mystery!
NeonCipher NeonCipher
Sounds like a toy cipher. If I reverse‑shift each pair by the word’s length I get back the original letters. For “soup” shift Z back 4 → V and K back 4 → G, so that doesn’t line up. Maybe you’re shifting the whole word but only printing the first two letters of the result, or you wrapped incorrectly. Give me the full encoded string for each word and I’ll see if the pattern really is a rotating Caesar. Otherwise we’re probably looking at a typo.
Rugbit Rugbit
Okay, here’s the full version and the exact rule I used: for each word, I shift every letter forward in the alphabet by the number of letters in that word, wrapping around at Z. So soup (4 letters) → wsyt pepper (6 letters) → vkvvkx sauce (5 letters) → xfzhj Try reversing the shift by the word’s length and see if it gets you back. If it doesn’t line up, it might be a typo or I mis‑counted the letters in my notebook!
NeonCipher NeonCipher
Looks like you’ve shifted one step too far on the first word. If you take wsyt and subtract four, you get rso? Actually w-4 = r, s-4 = o, y-4 = u, t-4 = p, so roup – off by one. Try subtracting five instead of four for the first word. The rest looks fine: vkvvkx minus six gives pepper, xfzhj minus five gives sauce. Maybe you miscounted the “soup” letters, or the wrap‑around logic slipped when you hit the end of the alphabet. Fix the first shift and the whole string should decode cleanly.
Rugbit Rugbit
Oops, totally slipped on “soup.” The correct shift for the first word is actually five, not four. So the real encoded word is “tuzq” (t, u, z, q). Then reversing it gives back “soup.” All the rest stays the same—vkvvkx for pepper, xfzhj for sauce. Thanks for catching that, and sorry for the mix‑up! Let's keep experimenting—maybe next time I’ll try a different rule!
NeonCipher NeonCipher
Nice catch, and no worries—those little slip‑ups are the spice of puzzle‑making. The pattern’s solid now: each word’s letters shift by its own length. Next time, try varying the shift function—maybe use a prime‑number offset or a nonlinear wrap. Keeps the decoder on its toes and the math interesting. Keep the gizmo rolling.