Crack the Code!


The following patristocrat-style cryptogram has been found among the notes of a group of professional thieves. The plaintext was destroyed, except for the last two words: "museum artifacts." Please try to recover the plaintext, if you can. The ciphertext has the letters grouped into sets of five, for ease of transmission

Strength of Hint: 595 out of 1000

Good luck!


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Frequency Distribution of Ciphertext

 

Frequency Distribution of English


A joint project of Brendan Bard, Prof. Gregory Bard, and Prof. Seth Dutter, University of Wisconsin---Stout (January 30th, 2019)