Caesar Cipher

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Veni... vidi... solvi.

Making sense of a bunch of letters that don’t seem to spell out words can take many forms.

BQQMF
POBOBO
VAXKKR
AROFXK
JQIJWGJWWD
XAY

One is that the letters may have been moved forward through the alphabet a specific number of times. The alphabet here is treated as cyclic, meaning that after Z you go back to A. Note that in order to decode such a message, the solver would have to traverse the alphabet backwards.

Letters Shifted by Original word
BQQMF 1 APPLE
POBOBO 14 BANANA
VAXKKR 19 CHERRY
AROFXK 23 DURIAN
JQIJWGJWWD 5 ELDERBERRY
XAY 18 FIG

Example Puzzles

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