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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Looking for help with this riddle.

Not sure if this actually constitutes a "riddle", anyway here it is.

What's the cipher that is not a cypher?
  

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A quick Google search turns up discussion on this, from the source code of the Project Mayhem 2012 website. It could mean many things... from a quick look at the PM2012 pages, they want you to be thinking about these things.

— Free_spirit

  • A quick Google search turns up discussion on this, from the source code of the Project Mayhem 2012 website.
  • It could mean many things...
  • from a quick look at the PM2012 pages, they want you to be thinking about these things.
  • (Sorry, I can't help)
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A quick Google search turns up discussion on this, from the source code of the Project Mayhem 2012 website. It could mean many things... from a quick look at the PM2012 pages, they want you to be thinking about these things.
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A cipher that is not a cipher/cypher could also be a plaintext (non-ciphered text) that people assume is a coded message. Or, it could be something that appears to be a cipher-text, that is actually meaningless and cannot be deciphered. For example, the Voynich manuscript may or may not be a ciphertext, another language, or it could have been done as a 'fraud' or simply for artistic merit. I've re
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Some more things to ponder:

From the following dictionary: http://dictionary.die.net/cipher

2: a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought, cypher]

4: a person of no influence [syn: cypher, nobody, nonentity]

So, if this is the
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Having another quick browse, there is a posting on pastebin that states:

Question: What's the cipher that is not a cypher?

[misc. ramblings]

Answer: LUCIFER/luCIPHER, of course! }:-)
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