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Took me a while to register that the simple letter replacement cipher used on that message has 26! = 403291461126605635584000000 possible keys... Ha!

• wickawic 9y ago
  Oh that's clever. By noting the zeroes I just assumed the joke was that the number was embarrassingly factorable.
• shmageggy 9y ago
  "ODED WINS THE KNUTH PRIZE" I had a little help from context ;)
  • raldi 9y ago
    For those who don't get it, the cryptogram "YXWX APRN LKW CRTLK DHPFW" decodes to the above.
    • dubya 9y ago
      I was still deciding between "ODED GIRL SHE BRUSH TWICE" and "ODED MANY THE KNUTH SLAVE". This makes more sense.