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I found a message in a bottle in Hamburg. Never did figure out what it says though. If anyone on HN is up for the challenge, here's a photo of it: https://photo
by yosito 9y ago
I found a message in a bottle in Hamburg. Never did figure out what it says though. If anyone on HN is up for the challenge, here's a photo of it: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TximCkxHoliDmnwy1 https://photos.app.goo.gl/TximCkxHoliDmnwy1
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- dredmorbius 9y agoRotating your image such that the text is readable would be a useful modification.
- jerrre 9y agoCould you tell a bit more about where, when, how you found it?
- yosito 9y agoI found it while canoeing along a canal in Hamburg, July of 2016. That's all the detail I remember.
- DonaldFisk 9y agoIn the middle right (under BLOND) is the word Schlange, which is German for snake and also a German surname. At the bottom, there appears to be a repeated sequence of characters which might be the Polish surname Zakrzewski. There's also a digit sequence 098765-543210 012345-567890. Hope that helps.
- StavrosK 9y agoJudging by the image of the cigarette pack and the handwriting, this is clearly a doctor's prescription.
- thwd 9y agoThis looks like the work of a schizophrenic. It sounds demeaning but I've seen similarly "encoded" messages, often around some common item (like a cigarette pack). They write them during psychosis and later find them and obsess over their decryption.