Kidnapped cryptogram

[dougo]

And this is what people who make TV shows think cryptograms look like:


This is from the NBC series Kidnapped. Screenshot by Admiral Jota.

Comments

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

It looks like they started with a substitution cipher and then mixed in some facerolling.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

At first I thought "facerolling" was where you fool someone into clicking on a link to the video for "Poker Face", but the Urban Dictionary definition is pretty funny.

[selinker.livejournal.com]

Definitely send me this image.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Again, the original size is on Flickr, linked from the photo...

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Bleah, well, Flickr made it harder to find the original size. Here's the direct link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougorleans/5151448499/sizes/o/

Pretty sneaky sis

[taskboy3000.livejournal.com]

This doesn't look like a real cipher at all. Otherwise, it is the most brilliant cipher ever invented. For instance, eight letter "kindness" becomes the nine letter "prwwmrhhi".

Briefly, I thought this might be a Vigenere cipher, but no.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Hm, I just realized it's not even a cryptogram in the puzzle sense, it's a staightforward substitution of a = z, b = y, c = x, etc. But apparently someone had bad handwriting, e.g. q and g got mixed up (they're both t).

[selinker.livejournal.com]

Got it, thanks. Expect to see it in next week's Decoder Ring.

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

Relevant: http://www.meh.ro/original/2009_12/meh.ro2985.jpg

[shannon_a]

My favorite is the magical change of the numbers in what otherwise looks like a substitution cipher.