The FBI Needs You to Solve this Code

[Roberto416]

Hey guys,
First time poster here.

Checked out the first picture. The last line gave a good clue for me. There is an apostrophe, meaning it is a place or a name. Starts with numbers, so it can be an address from what I'm thinking... If you can at least cipher this section, that would be cool.

Also noting sequences TFR and WLD and NCBE being used frequently... could mean three or four letter words like 'The' or 'and' or 'them'.

Lines 9 - 10 look like final words or something ending with a number (71, 74, 75) then NCBE

This is all I got for now!

 

[megamabu]

It's the secret recipe to grandma's home made cookies. If he had of wrote it down unencoded he would have had his kneecaps broken.

We must not let this recipe fall into the wrong hands because if it does....it could spell death to the entire human race! DUNN DUNN DUUUUUUNNNNN

 

[Distorted Stu]

/b/ tried to crack this so many times (and others i believe too). Noone came close.

Also, i seen this uploaded this mornign by the "L" fanpage on facebook. Not even L can solve it

 

[Synek]

The first code looks like program code and the second looks like a cooking/chemestry recipie.
Challenge accepted!

 

[emeraldrafael]

Is the Zodiac Killer back? I never really heard of him going away so much as he just stopped, rather then be caught.

My outside shot in the dark, the captchas have something to do iwth it.

 

[USSR]

It's so simple.

"Brb, Denny's."

 

[Stormwaltz]

(leaving)

 

[Captain Bobbossa]

When you read through the comments of things like this it's interesting to see how massivly diverse the escapist community is. That or there are a lot of proffesional bullshitters, might be a combination of the two.

 

[Cleireach]

It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of uuggggggh'.

 

[arcstone]

What if he just dotted down a bunch of random crap for the sole purpose of giving you something to ponder over?

Have anyone considered this?

 

[Scott Guthrie]

if i may start on an immature note: lol 169 comments

Now, if he had been experimenting with codes, he should have previous coded notes. These previous notes could contain the key to the two unknown notes

 

[restoshammyman]

i have no idea if it means anything. but most lines end with an E.

 

[Jennacide]

"The Reapers are coming."

Ah, yes, the "reapers."
/obligatory

Anyway. Silly FBI, they aren't even English because they aren't words. Clearly they are Metroid progress passwords.

 

[Zydrate]

The answer is 42, obviously.

 

[Guthie]

Aaand watch Anonymous crack the code and the multiverse explode from the resultant irony.

 

[Weaver]

THE MOST ADVANCED CRYPTOLOGISTS IN THE WORLD...

And they don't even have a god damn email address.

 

[FamoFunk]

I'm going with it being a shopping list, but what is on the list is a mystery...

 

[Tarik94]

What if this is the old Nazi-German code "Enigma"?

Bring out the Polish mathematician everyone!

 

[Therumancer]

Well, my first thought is that it's not a code he wrote. Maybe it's a code he was working on, given his own interests. Someone apparently wanted to kill this guy, knowing his interests they came up with some complete jargon, sent it has way, and then arranged to meet him so they could teach him the solution. If they sent the code to him via computer or something that might explain why he jotted it down to bring with him for referance.

That of course doesn't actually help in solving the mystery, of why he was killed, but it is a thought. If I had it in for this guy and knew his interests that might be how I'd bait a trap for him if I wanted to lure him to a location to meet someone he only knew via BBS systems or whatever.



It's also possible given the time period that this was going on is that it's a keystroke record for something. If he was playing older games even for the time, he might have been dealing with a solve that simply told you how to move in the game. The ( ) brackets being a way of seperating each sequence. Of course I can't think of any game that would look quite like that off the top of my head. The thing to consider is that some games like say "Ultima IV" considered how many keystrokes you entered or "moves" before you beat the game, and gave a running count when you saved. A few nerds would sort of compete to see how few keystrokes they could beat some of these games with (I'm pretty sure this isn't Ultima IV) and even post formulas for them.


Any other ideas I have would just be plain wierd and useless to the situation at hand. To summarize them though, if they haven't already they might want to have some occultists look at it or whatever.


I'm horrible at codes, but it occurs to me that if all of these experts couldn't break that code, including presumably the guy who did that Kryptos statue if they ever asked him, maybe it's not a code.

It's probably far too late, but they might want to do something like see if they have a list of what video games he was playing. I can't think of anything that would make sense in connection to, but it might "click" if they spotted the right one.... as useless to finding his killer as that would be (again).