Secret Message.
For the secret agent. Pick a tombstone with an unusual epitaph or a lot of symbols on it. Show me how it might actually be a code, and what the encrypted message might be….
smallfavors@lastcallpoker.com
subject: secret message
This is the explanation I sent:
Lucky,
Clever Max Brunnwasser was a rich man with a cunning sense of play. His
frugality, however, led him to invent new and eccentric ways with which to
hide his money from family members he perceived to be greedy and dumb.
"To the brainy go the spoils," he'd chortle to himself, as he commissioned a
very special family stone laid over with a scroll and twining fronds of ivy.
You see, in his sprawling estate near the shores of Lake Michigan up near
Evanston, he hid a small safe with several stock notes and precious jewels.
One only had to search in the B section of his library (represented by the
scroll), and pull back a volume on horticulture (the ivy) to reveal a small
switch in the back paneling of one shelf. The safe combination?
Merely count the leaves and move clockwise: 6 - 3 - 11.
Perhaps a simple puzzle, after all, but even Max understood that he couldn't
take *everything* with him. A bit of know-how and initiative, he felt, were
sufficient prerequisites for discovering the fortune that would do him no good
in the afterlife.
Sincerely,
Krystyn
Secret Message.
For the secret agent. Pick a tombstone with an unusual epitaph or a lot of symbols on it. Show me how it might actually be a code, and what the encrypted message might be….
smallfavors@lastcallpoker.com
subject: secret message
This is the explanation I sent:
Lucky,
Clever Max Brunnwasser was a rich man with a cunning sense of play. His
frugality, however, led him to invent new and eccentric ways with which to
hide his money from family members he perceived to be greedy and dumb.
"To the brainy go the spoils," he'd chortle to himself, as he commissioned a
very special family stone laid over with a scroll and twining fronds of ivy.
You see, in his sprawling estate near the shores of Lake Michigan up near
Evanston, he hid a small safe with several stock notes and precious jewels.
One only had to search in the B section of his library (represented by the
scroll), and pull back a volume on horticulture (the ivy) to reveal a small
switch in the back paneling of one shelf. The safe combination?
Merely count the leaves and move clockwise: 6 - 3 - 11.
Perhaps a simple puzzle, after all, but even Max understood that he couldn't
take *everything* with him. A bit of know-how and initiative, he felt, were
sufficient prerequisites for discovering the fortune that would do him no good
in the afterlife.
Sincerely,
Krystyn