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Ciphers exist to hide valuable information and maintain a secret. And if you manage to unravel what is written, then you can find out the secret of a person, the coordinates of a treasure, or even the history of an entire civilization. But there are messages that remain unsolved for centuries.

website I have collected for you 9 of the most mysterious and unusual encrypted messages, behind which something great is probably hidden.

No. 1. Codex Serafini

A book written in the late 70s by the Italian architect Luigi Serafini. This is a 360-page atlas of the fictional world, painted to... the smallest details(fauna, architecture, laws of nature, history, languages, entertainment).

But main mystery is that the code is handwritten in cipher text that no one has been able to decipher. Although the author of the book is still alive, he flatly refuses to say whether it is even a real language. There is a version that the book conveys the child’s worldview. and try to understand it.

No. 2. Messages of the Zodiac

Zodiac - elusive Serial killer, which kept all of San Francisco in fear in 1968–1969.

He claimed that his real name could only be found out if all 4 parts of the code he sent to the police station were read. As a result, detectives were able to decipher only 3 parts. The last 18 characters remain a mystery. Perhaps that's where the killer's name is written.

No. 3. Bale cryptograms

In 1822, a certain Thomas Jefferson Bale gave a box and a key to the owner of a hotel and told him to keep it carefully. After which Bale disappeared without a trace. The box was opened only in 1843. Inside were three sheets of paper with encryption and content signatures. The first note contained the coordinates, the second - the contents of the cache, and the third - the names of the heirs.

Only the second note was decrypted. It spoke of "three wagons of gold" located in Virginia somewhere in Bedford County. In modern terms, the treasure is worth $30 million. The remaining two notes with exact coordinates have never been read by anyone.

No. 4. Dorabella cipher

English composer and cryptologist Edward Elgar sent a coded message (87 characters) to his friend Dorabella Penny in 1897. The note contains symbols that look like springs. However, the girl was never able to figure it out.

No. 5. Kryptos

Kryptos- a copper sculpture that stands near the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Artist James Sanborn in 1990 placed a message on the sculpture, which he encrypted on 4 plates. At the same time, Sanborn noted that the message can only be read when all 4 parts are solved.

Today the meaning of 3 out of 4 sections is known. The most experienced cryptographers have been struggling unsuccessfully over the meaning of the last 97 characters for 20 years.

No. 6. Encryption from Shaboro

In Staffordshire (Great Britain) there is an 18th-century monument that reflects the events of Nicolas Poussin’s painting “The Shepherds of Arcadia”. If you look closer, you can see on the monument a strange sequence of letters DOUOSVAVVM - a code that no one has been able to decipher for more than 250 years.

Many people tried to find out the answer to the riddle, including Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens, but without success. Some cryptographers believe that the code may be a clue left by the Templars about the location of the Holy Grail.

No. 7. General Wang's gold bars

In 1993, General Wang from Shanghai received an unusual parcel - 7 gold bars, each of which had encoded inscriptions. The cipher on the bullion consists of Chinese characters and cryptograms in Latin.

Until now, the sender, the reason for the “gift” and the content of the message remain unclear.

A riddle is a metaphorical expression in which one object is expressed through another that has some, even remote, similarity with it; based last man and must guess the intended object.

In ancient times, a riddle was a means of testing wisdom, now it is folk pastime. Riddles are found among all peoples, no matter what stage of development they are at. A proverb and a riddle differ in that a riddle needs to be guessed, while a proverb is a teaching. Material from Wikipedia. We bring to your attention 15 of the most difficult riddles in the world. At the same time, we also give answers so that you can immediately determine whether you are able to solve them.

The answer is hidden and is located on a separate page of the site.

• Two people approach the river. There is a boat at the shore that can only support one. Both people crossed to the opposite bank. How did they do it?

  They were on different banks.

• Vasily, Peter, Semyon and their wives Natalya, Irina, Anna are 151 years old together. Each husband is 5 years older than his wife. Vasily is 1 year older than Irina. Natalya and Vasily are 48 years old together, Semyon and Natalya are 52 years old together. Who is married to whom, and how old is someone?

  Vasily (26) - Anna (21); Peter (27) - Natalya (22); Semyon (30) - Irina (25).

• Do not write anything or use a calculator. Take 1000. Add 40. Add another thousand. Add 30. Another 1000. Plus 20. Plus 1000. And plus 10. What happened?

  5000? Wrong. The correct answer is 4100. Try using a calculator.

• Jackdaws flew and sat on sticks. If they sit down one at a time, there’s an extra jackdaw; if they sit down in twos, there’s an extra stick. How many sticks were there and how many jackdaws were there?

  Three sticks and four jackdaws.

• Mr. Mark was found murdered in his office. The cause turned out to be a bullet wound to the head. Detective Robin, examining the murder scene, found a cassette recorder on the table. And when he turned it on, he heard Mr. Mark's voice. He said: “This is Mark speaking. Jones just called me and said that in ten minutes he would be here to shoot me. There is no use in running. I know this footage will help the police arrest Jones. I hear his footsteps on the stairs. The door opens..." The assistant detective suggested that Jones be arrested on suspicion of murder. But the detective did not follow his assistant's advice. As it turns out, he was right. Jones was not the killer, as was stated on the tape. Question: why did the detective become suspicious?

  The tape in the recorder was reviewed at the beginning. Moreover, Jones would have taken the tape.

• Third-graders Alyosha and Misha walk from school and talk:
  “When the day after tomorrow becomes yesterday,” said one of them, “then today will be as far from Sunday as the day that was today, when the day before yesterday was tomorrow.” What day of the week did they talk?

  On Sunday.

• The hare and cat together weigh 10 kg. Dog with hare - 20 kg. Dog with cat - 24 kg. In this case, how much will all the animals weigh together: the hare, the cat and the dog?

  27 kg. (solution .)

• There was a stone on the seashore. An 8 letter word was written on the stone. When the rich read this word, they cried, the poor rejoiced, and the lovers parted. What was that word?

  Temporarily.

• There is a prison, next to a hospital. There are rails around them, and on the rails it moves in a circle with high speed train. One boy needs to go to his grandfather in prison, and one girl needs to go to her grandmother in the hospital. How can they do this if the train doesn't stop?

  The boy needs to throw the girl under the train, then he will go to prison, and the girl to the hospital.

• Which Russian word can you write it from right to left, turn it upside down, mirror it, and it will still remain unchanged and not lose its meaning?

  It.

• Which bird do you need to pluck feathers from to get morning, afternoon, evening, night at once?

  Day.

• Teresa's daughter is my daughter's mother. Who am I to Teresa?

  1. Grandmother.
  2. Mother.
  3. Daughter.
  4. Granddaughter.
  5. I am Teresa.

  Write your option in the comments.

15 difficult riddles that will make your head work and take your mind off everyday thoughts...

1. This is given to a person three times: the first two times are free, but for the third you have to pay?

2. One of my friends can shave his beard clean ten times a day. And still he walks around with a beard. How is this possible?

He's a barber.

3. One day at breakfast, a girl dropped her ring into a cup full of coffee. Why did the ring remain dry?

Coffee beans, ground or instant.

4. In what case, looking at the number 2, do we say “ten”?

When we look at a clock that shows ten minutes of an hour.

5. A man bought apples for 5 rubles apiece, and then sold them for 3 rubles apiece. After some time, he became a millionaire. How did he do it?

He was a billionaire.

6. You are standing in front of two identical doors, one of which leads to death, the other to happiness. The doors are guarded by two identical guards, one of whom always tells the truth, and the other who lies all the time. But you don't know who is who. You can only ask one question to any of the guards.
What question should you ask to avoid making a mistake when choosing a door?

One solution: “If I ask you to show me the door to happiness, which door will the other guard point to?” And after that you need to choose another door.

7. You are invited to work as a financial analyst at Gazprom. They promise a starting salary of $100,000 per year and two options for increasing it:
1. Once a year your salary is increased by $15,000
2. Once every six months - for $5,000
Which option do you think is more profitable?

Second.
Layout according to the first option: 1 year - $100,000, 2 year - $115,000, 3 year - $130,000, 4 year - $145,000 and so on. Layout according to the second option: 1 year - $50,000 + $55,000 = $105,000, 2 year - $60,000 + $65,000 = $125,000, year 3 - $70,000 + $75,000 = $145,000, year 4 - $80,000 + $85,000 = $165,000 and so on.

8. There are three light bulbs in one room. The other has three switches. You need to determine which switch goes to which light bulb. You can only enter a room with light bulbs once.

You need to first turn on one light bulb and wait, then turn on the second light bulb for a very short time, and then turn both off. The first will be the hottest, the second will be warm, and the third will be cold.

9. You have five and three liter bottles and lots and lots of water. How to fill a five-liter bottle with exactly 4 liters of water?

Take a five-liter bottle and pour 3 liters from it into a three-liter bottle. Pour out the three-liter container and pour the remaining two liters into it. Take the five-liter bottle again and pour the extra liter from it into a three-liter bottle, where there is just that much space left.

10. You are sitting in a boat that floats in a pool. There is a heavy cast iron anchor in the boat, not tied to the boat. What happens to the water level in the pool if you drop an anchor into the water?

The water level will drop. While the anchor is in the boat, it displaces a volume of water weighing the same as the anchor, its own weight and the weight of the cargo. If an anchor is thrown overboard, it will only displace a volume of water equal to the volume of the anchor, and not its weight, i.e. less, since the density of the anchor is greater than that of water.

11. A father and two sons went on a hike. On their way they met a river, near the bank of which there was a raft. It can support either a father or two sons on the water. How can father and sons cross to the other side?

First, both sons cross. One of the sons returns back to his father. The father moves to the opposite bank to join his son. The father remains on the shore, and the son is transported to the original shore after his brother, after which they both are transported to their father.

12. A steel ladder was lowered from the side of the ship. The bottom 4 steps of the ladder are submerged in water. Each step is 5 cm thick; the distance between two adjacent steps is 30 cm. The tide began, at which the water level began to rise at a speed of 40 cm per hour. How many steps do you think will be under water after 2 hours?

“no one scares, but everyone trembles” (riddle)

Alternative descriptions

Poplar tree

Tree middle zone with constantly trembling leaves

Wood from which a stake was made in the past - an instrument of execution

The tree is the owner of trembling leaves

Trees and shrubs

Trembling Tree

Judas tree

Deciduous tree from the willow family

Deciduous tree related to poplar

Nature painted the wings of the moth butterfly to match the color of the bark of this tree.

Cool vampire tree

Tree of Judas

Type of poplar

Gallows for Judas

Tree above redhead

The scientific name of this plant is populus tremula - shaking poplar

According to legend, the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified was made from this tree

On which tree did Judas hang himself?

Cool tree (for funny vampires)

Wood for making anti-vampire weapons

Tree fluttering in the dark blue forest

Match tree

Tree for the ghoul

What kind of wood should you make a stake from to kill a vampire?

Tree with trembling leaves

Related to poplar

Poplar Kin

Its leaves are red in autumn

Blushing tree in autumn

Red tree in autumn

Poplar's relatives

Tree with foliage

No one is scared, but everyone is trembling

Trembling Tree

Wood to impale a vampire

What tree do vampires not like?

Material for anti-vampire stakes

deciduous tree

Woody delicacy for the beaver's table

Tree with leaves trembling in fear

Cool tree for a vampire

Wood shudder measure

Trembling in the dark blue forest

Beaver's favorite tree

Anti-vampire tree

Tree - beaver delicacy

The trembling poplar sister

Wood for openwork carving

Forest sister of poplar

. "shaking" tree

Wood for stakes

Witch Tree

Doom Tree of Judas

Tree of the poplar genus

. "...doesn't burn without kerosene"

Tree with trembling leaves

Deciduous tree of the willow family with leaves on long stalks that move very easily

. "...doesn't burn without kerosene"

. "Trembling" poplar sister

. "Shaking" tree

Tree - beaver delicacy

Tree with trembling leaves

F. tree Poppulus tremulus; most of all it is used for chipped (carved and turned) wooden utensils, which is why it is also called baklushey, lower. Bitter aspen, in the song. The aspen is a cursed tree, Judas hanged himself on it, and since then the leaf on it has been trembling. There is blood under the bark on the aspen; the bark, under the skin, is reddish. One berry, bitter rowan, one tree, bitter aspen! They say fever and teeth on aspen: having cut out a triangle from the bark (in the name and union and the Holy One, they rub their gums until they bleed, I put it back in its place. If your legs are cramping, then they put an aspen log in your legs, and for headaches in your head .. To strangle him on the aspen. The wicked greyhounds and hounds are hanged on the aspen. If they are wandering around in death, they are turned over on their faces and pierced with an aspen stake, so that the cabbage does not become sour, they put an aspen sable in it. . low analysis. Trembling like an aspen leaf. I’m strangling myself on the bitter aspen tree, even without the wind the aspen is still whispering, but the damned aspen tree is growing, but it’s not crazy. I wish I could take you out to the aspen! Just as the aspen trembles, the cattle in the field are well fed. The aspen has large buds for the barley harvest (that is, it blooms richly) and kill it for oats (orenb.). Aspen stake he will keep saying: straw! Aspen grove, aspen forest, alive with the spruce and aspen forest, Nizh. where bread is not born, but they earn money in spoons and cups. Heat with aspen wood, aspen wood. Aspen mushroom, boletus mushroom or red mushroom, Boletus auratiacua. Osinnik, Nov. aspen, aspen w. arch. hollow, single-tree aspen, boat, canoe, shavings, sometimes with beatings, nozzles. Osipovka, aspen basket, bent box

What tree do vampires not like?

Kin to the poplar

. “no one scares, but everyone trembles” (riddle)

On which tree did Judas hang himself?

What kind of wood should you make a stake from to kill a vampire?

Today the editors of “I and the World” have prepared for you 10 mysteries that remain unsolved. There are still so many mysterious mysteries in the world. They attract scientists with their obscurity and are the cause of much controversy. We present to you 10 mysteries that defy explanation. Maybe you will be able to reveal their secret?

1. Uffington White Horse

Today, in the beautiful county of Oxford, England, carved into the steep hillsides is a huge image of the Uffington White Horse. The length of the white horse reaches approximately 110 meters, and the width of this phenomenon is 30 meters.

The strangest thing about this image is that the horse has a beak-like face and has limbs that are far from resembling those of a normal animal. The image of the Uffington horse is considered one of the monuments of antiquity and is observed state security.

There are records of the Uffington Horse in historical accounts from the 1070s. The Uffington White Horse is believed to have been carved in the late 5th century because at that time the white horse was a symbol of the Saxon conquerors, although other scholars claim that this exclusive painting appeared after the victory over the Danes in 871.

2. Synchronized fireflies

Fireflies can be found in many parts of the United States, but Tennessee has a special firefly. Every year, during the month of June, certain fireflies meet to perform their particular evening light show, only instead of each one glowing whenever it wishes, they all light up at the same time, every second or two.

They are in sync. Jonathan Copeland, a firefly specialist at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, believes this could be a mating ritual. However, no one knows for sure.

3. Seismic flares

Scientists have noted for many years that mysterious flashes are observed in the sky before volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. It is still unclear how this light phenomenon is related to two such different natural disasters.

In 1960, this phenomenon was captured on video, and scientists analyzed the footage. According to one theory, a volcanic eruption affects electric charges in geological formations, which leads to visible flashes, but this is just a version.

4. Stonehenge

This is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world and one of the most mysterious. “Stonehenge” roughly translates from Old English as “hanging stones,” but who “hung them” and why? According to legends, Stonehenge is associated with the name of Merlin.

In the Middle Ages, some scientists believed that it was built by the Germans or the Swiss, and in the 17th century a popular hypothesis was that Stonehenge was the work of the ancient Romans. At the beginning of the 19th century, everyone came to the conclusion that this was a Druid sanctuary. However, later excavations and modern research Using the radiocarbon method, the time of creation was pushed back to the New Stone and Bronze Ages.

One of modern hypotheses suggests that Stonehenge is something like an ancient observatory that served for prediction space disasters. It is also sometimes claimed that this place was used for burials, as a special area for burying the dead.

5. The storm destroyed the beach and then returned it to its place

This strange event happened recently in Porthleven (Cornwall, UK). A sudden tide swept away all the sand from the beach.

A few hours later, another tide completely returned the sand to its place, restoring the beach. When the first tide washed away the sand and rock deposits, scientists said it would take years to bring back tons of sand.

However, in reality it only took a few hours! This strange incident has left locals and scientists scratching their heads in confusion.

6. Great Sphinx

Probably each of us has heard about the Sphinx at least once. Legendary creature With the head of a woman, the body and paws of a lion, the tail of a bull and the wings of an eagle, the sphinx is present in the mythology of many countries. The most famous sculpture throughout the world is the Great Sphinx in Egypt.

This grandiose stone sculpture is shrouded in secrets, legends and myths. Who, when and why built the Great Sphinx still remains a mystery. Perhaps that's why Great Sphinx attracts the attention of not only scientists, historians, connoisseurs of antiquity, but also ordinary tourists.

7. Mysterious lights of Hessdalen

Hessdalen contains several settlements, the number of inhabitants of which barely exceeds two hundred people. The elders note that they have been watching the events taking place all their lives. They say that strange and unusual light rays were first seen several years before the start of the war in the forties. But residents reported that this was infrequent.

Later, in the early eighties of the last century, lights increasingly illuminated the sky above the valley, which greatly disturbed people. The mystery of the Hessdalen lights has remained unsolved for many decades. One Italian researcher believes that sulfur fumes create bubbles of ionized gas that react with moist air and forms light spheres, but research has not yet been completed.

8. Red glow over the Pacific Ocean

This strange red light was spotted over the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula by J. van Heijst. He was flying a Boeing 747-8 from Hong Kong to Alaska when he noticed a red glow below.

The glow appeared after lightning was seen in the distance. Since there was no thunderstorm anywhere along the route, the lightning was clearly not caused by a storm.

This phenomenon remains unexplained; Scientists believe the red glow may be a reflection volcanic eruption at the bottom of the ocean.

9. Annual Animal Migration

Animal migration is a natural phenomenon where animals travel from one place to another, usually at certain times of the year.

However, scientists still do not understand how such complex movements can be embedded in the brain. different types birds, fish, insects and mammals.

10. Stone balls of Costa Rica

Throughout the area you can find many stone balls that range in size from a small bowling ball to a ball reaching 2.5 meters in diameter.

These balls are scattered throughout the country, and their perfect shapes they say that they are unlikely to have been made local peoples using rough tools. Nobody knows where they came from or how they got there.