A ton of ciphers used in this game can be solved using these Cipher Tools, sometimes it's easy to find it all in one place!
Google is also your friend, sometimes you may need to look up a cipher to better understand it. It's all up to your discretion! Also, as a general rule of thumb, once you reach a page with a Home button at the bottom, you are on the final puzzle or page for that particular newsletter (if the newsletter takes you to a page at all). Sometimes a newsletter could just hold information for a future puzzle or not take you to a web page; you can double check your solutions or progress on each newsletter by looking at these hints, if you wish.
There is a handwritten name on the back of the map, this is a type of cipher encoded using a number. I wonder how you might find the key for it?
The missing year might be the key and can be found on the home page.
The missing year comes from one of the sasquatch sightings at the bottom of the home page.
Have you seen the message from Mr. Morse? If you have, try using all lowercase letters to visit this page.
You need to solve two different puzzles here, one of them takes you two more messages.
Perhaps the title of the page/tab might help you figure out what cipher to use.
Warren Atterbom's age is the key to deciphering the message. Check the name of the tab for the cipher.
This is a Caesar cipher, Warren Atterbom's age is the number of times to shift the letters to decode.
There are some underlined letters in the encoded message, perhaps once decoded they will take you somewhere?
DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T SOLVED THE ENCODED LETTER, THIS HINT WILL BE A SPOILER. After solving the Caesar shift to arrive at the second page, the name of this new page and the name of the tab may offer insight into deciphering the text.
This page is encoded in a vigenere cipher, and the keyword is in the tab name (secret).
This fragment is encoded in a cipher you've previously used (Atterbom doesn't change his habits).
Not to be too bold, but notice anything a little unusual?
The bolded letters might give you a message to think about for now.
A little birdie told me there may be something to open within this newsletter.
The title of this page/tab tells you the cipher you need.
A vigenere cipher uses a keyword, you may have just clicked on that keyword.
A little bird told me the keyword.
Have you found the third newspaper article? Find the anagrammed person in it.
One name in the article has the same letters as the fake names written below the article. This name will get you through to the next page.
On mobile devices, you may need to enter the answer twice.
The title of the tab might help you find out where to find another hint.
You might want to look at the html code for this page, a helpful hint might be hiding within.
If you right click and inspect element, you'll find the name of the cipher and the keyword you'll need.
Playfair, Cowboy.
Within the code of the page is a message telling you to use the playfair cipher, with the keyword "cowboy". Sometimes the letter J is replaced with a letter I when decoding.
Save this for later, you can take a rest for now.
Remember Newsletter 26? One of those names is important.
The list of names from email 25 is in the same order as the initials list of essays.
Only one of these paper titles is most relevant to George Lee's Murder. Find the paper, find our imposter.
Remember, George Lee was killed because of greed, the most relevant paper to this will be key.
On mobile devices, you may need to enter the answer twice.
SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T SOLVED THE REPORT TITLES/NAMES, IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE NAME, DON'T CONTINUE. The message is written with Greek letters, but not translated into Greek. You'll have to decipher or convert each letter for the message.
Some of the letters are more phonetic rather than the actual letter you'd expect in our alphabet. Spellings are approximate.
Google translating from Greek may give you an approximation of the message.
Have you clicked on the picture of the IDs?
We've hidden a url in this photo.
Perhaps NATO can help you figure out where to start with this audio.
Each of the spoken words corresponds to a different letter, the first letter of each word, in fact.
Once you've solved the NATO alphebet, the next cipher you need is in the page/tab title.
You can also find the encoded text within the code of the page and copy-paste if you can't get the NATO Phonetic Alphabet just right.
OTP stands for One Time Pad, perhaps the cipher text is in the original photo somewhere?
The letter on the left hand side of the image contains the necessary text for the one-time pad cipher needed for the transmission.
SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T DECIPHERED THE TRANSMISSION, DON'T READ ANY FURTHER. The cipher for these pages is hinted at in the title, or you can right click and inspect element to see the name of the cipher in the html code for the page.
These pages are written in the same cipher used during the Babington plot, and there's an extra cipher in them that's a little bookish
A book cipher is used here, the pairs of numbers lead you to a line and word for that particular page.
There might be one more thing to find, have you tried to go Back(?)
I wonder what happens if you hover over the any bold words?
This cipher looks like the Babington cipher from the last email.
It seems you'll have to use these directions to follow the map on the next page
That's it! Congratulations, you've saved sasquatch! Thanks for playing!!