Crack the Code!


The following patristocrat-style cryptogram was sent to the agricultural attache in the American embassy to Belize. The only thing that is known is that the word pair "some beehives" occurs somewhere inside the message. Please try and recover the plaintext. The ciphertext has the letters grouped into sets of five, for ease of transmission

Strength of Hint: 445 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)