# brand new code **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 25, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972 "2003-03-25T06:05:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972/1 "2003-03-25T06:05:01Z")
Ok everyone, I am very impressed by how quickly you solved that code, even though I feel like an idiot for not noticing the dot part being spelled out itself. Now follow the link below and solve that code. It’s a variation of the Masonic Cipher, I haven’t yet been able to figure out the figure that can be used to decode it. [http://64.4.22.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?\_lang=EN&lah=181cd5211c63b7279a125de17695ae96&lat=1048572270&hm\_\_\_action=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.relic-bay.com](http://64.4.22.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=181cd5211c63b7279a125de17695ae96&lat=1048572270&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2erelic%2dbay%2ecom) ---
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972/2 "2003-03-25T06:06:07Z")
Hmm, link didn’t work. Just type lspdv for the search. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972/3 "2003-03-25T06:24:04Z")
Couldn’t find “lspdv” either. ---
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972/4 "2003-03-25T06:32:30Z")
Hmmm, I’ll have to work on this. ---
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972/5 "2003-03-25T06:35:47Z")
This one should work: [http://www.randomhouse.com/cgi-bin/robertlangdon/rb.cgi/rb.cgi?id=529768A](http://www.randomhouse.com/cgi-bin/robertlangdon/rb.cgi/rb.cgi?id=529768A) ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972/6 "2003-03-25T06:47:39Z")
I’m not familiar with the Masonic cipher, but you have to draw a tic-tac-toe board, four characters to a square. 36 characters total, that’s: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP QRST UVWX YZ12 3456 7890 THE TRUTH WILL BE TOLD IN 2003 ---
**Author:** ![dylan\_73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dylan\_73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dylan_73)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972/7 "2003-03-25T13:39:06Z")
**Achernar** : Thanks for the spoiler, now could you tell me what it means? And is that parchment for real, or just a puzzle story or what? ---
**Author:** ![dylan\_73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dylan\_73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dylan_73)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-code/163972/8 "2003-03-25T13:44:55Z")
Ahh…it’s a puzzle game…I was highly confused for a moment there, especially just being dropped in middle on it and all…