Clive Thompson on Nostr: The "Silk Dress Cryptogram" has finally been solved Sara Rivers-Cofield bought this ...
The "Silk Dress Cryptogram" has finally been solved
Sara Rivers-Cofield bought this Victorian-era dress back in 2013 ...
... and found, concealed within a *secret inner pocket*, two sheets with sequences of words ...
... like "Bismark Omit leafage buck bank"
Codebreaking folk spent ten years puzzling over it, and this year one figured it out
Item #9 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free to subscribe or support here here here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-17-medieval-fighting-snails-loud/
Sara Rivers-Cofield bought this Victorian-era dress back in 2013 ...
... and found, concealed within a *secret inner pocket*, two sheets with sequences of words ...
... like "Bismark Omit leafage buck bank"
Codebreaking folk spent ten years puzzling over it, and this year one figured it out
Item #9 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free to subscribe or support here here here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-17-medieval-fighting-snails-loud/