Sunday Morning Puzzle #59 --- Top 10 List

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The letter/number combinations below are encoded entries. Cracking this code should naturally lead the solver to a top ten list. Challenge: Discover the top 10 list and then post the correct 11th encoded entry.

Hint: It is definately not FRVBM S57IUT.


  1. FV7FL(2/10)

  2. GSJ2OE5IJQ

  3. 2YD2MDJ56

  4. 5O H36 XF U4VTU

  5. 8UBUF 86WFSF(1/4/7)H5UZ — 5BU(1/4/7)65B(2/3) V5(1/4/7)65

  6. 811SUV2, 711C2SU6 (9/12)(3/4/10)E 11(3/4/10)E212(3/4/10)E2(3/4/10)D2

  7. X3U2 H(1/4)E, BMM U23OHT BSF Q(1/4)TT3CMF

  8. T(2/5) RV7FS(2/5)T QF8(2/5)8TVM71 71PF871, 3(2/5)S3V1TQ(2/5)3F

  9. MJC(2/5/8)6U9 B1E Q6P7Q(2/5/8)6JU9

  10. X6TE3N, KVTU6D2 7OE N3E247U63O

  11. ?

So this seems to be tougher than I thought. Okay. Here’s the answer to number 11:

FTTF RV(7,13)N W11EF(3,8)11

Now can anyone post #12?

  1. T(2/5/7)D TFNQFS UZ3866(2/5/7)T

Peregrine, you have done it again. I suspected you’d get this by and by, but perhaps not until we’d gotten up to #15 (2ML5).

Perhaps your NPUUP should be: B8PUI(2,4,9)(3,6) P8(2,4,9) C7U(2,4,9)T UI(2,4,9) EVTU!


For anyone else still wrestling with this, here’s the very long answer #13 in the list:

10O(3,4,9,13)10 Q10(11,12)J(11,12) QM(2,5)6JE(2,5)1 (3,4,9,13)8C MJC10S(11,12)(2,5)(11,12)10 R8J10(11,12)101