Wednesday, July 01, 2015

D'Agapeyeff Cipher (Part 2)

❚ I don't know why, but in the last days I used my spare time to think about the good old D'Agapeyeff Cipher.

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Remark: In the first post, i wrote that the puzzle only appeared in the 1939 version of the book but meanwhile i got new information. The puzzle is still contained in the reprinted version from 1949. The first version that comes without the puzzle is the version that was published in 1952.

Note that the puzzle was not altered in any way in the 1949 reprint. This can be seen as a clue, that D'Agapeyeff still believes that the puzzle itself was correct (e.g., not printed in a erroneous way).