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Bump because I'm too dumb to solve this

 

After some time of constantly failure, I'm passing this away, good luck with the next step.
(Ive already decoded the first message and realized that "A fine" actually refers to affine lol. So, what's left are the remaining words and 5/7). Bye n3rds

 

Grocery List:

octopus
dragonfruit
unagi don
honey
nutmeg
hazelnut
xacuti
umeboshi
zucchini
nachos

ALSO NO AVOCADOS??? HOW COULD YOU

O wait there's more to this with the 5/7 .-.
I thought it was just the atbash cipher

 

The message is:

• octopus
• dragonfruit
• unagi don
• honey
• nutmeg
• hazelnut
• xacuti
• umeboshi
• zucchini
• nachos

It is the Atbash Cipher
where all the alphebets are reversed so
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
becomes
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

 

People already figured that out, all we need now is the true message behind the grocery list.

 

Answer to 4:

Spoiler

Decoding the list with the atbash cipher gives:
octopus
dragonfruit
unagi don
honey
nutmeg
hazelnut
xacuti
umeboshi
zucchini
nachos
Decoding the the first letter of every item on the list with the affine cipher and the coefficients 5 and 7 gives
runawaynow
I wonder what my mom's occupation is.

 

So, I think I may have cracked it...

Let's begin with what everyone figured out. I didn't figure the first bit out, I just continued on what could've been the rest.

So everyone knows that by using the Atbash cipher, the code translates to:

octopus
dragonfruit
unagi don
honey
nutmeg
hazelnut
xacuti
umeboshi
zucchini
nachos

I knew this wasn't the end of it. I kept looking at the things and was messing around with the words. Scrambling to see if they make something, but I realised what was going on. At first I just brushed past "A Fine Grocery List 5/7", but I noticed it was black, so it had some meaning. I was checking the comments to notice "Affine" and I realised, "A Fine" relates to "Affine" so I was using an Affine Solver to see if there is any other thing related to 5/7. It took me a couple of mins (about 15 :/) to attempt the first letter from each word.

oduhnhxuzn turns to "runawaynow" if you use 5/7 in the A and B coefficients. My guess is that the family is in danger in some way. That's my last hour finished.

EDIT: So I just realised that I didn't post the reply until 7PM (now) and I literally wrote this all up 2 hours ago. Well then.

 

Well played sir, well played.

 

Well done on getting 4. I still can't believe that after typing that all up I forgot to post the reply. Just proves carelessness will still screw you over ;_:

 

When is the 5th letter coming out?

 

free bump :P

 

Ok I was smart for once

I kinda solved Letter 6

You're only provided with this:

wsrudmzdflijkvrvpzgngkcigsryprvhehpwkxbqpwkxfhgipsvaqmxe

To decode it, I looked at the text closer and found out that you need to use the word "candle", since "there is absolutely nothing you can use, save perhaps for the candle"

Solve this using a Vignere cipher using "candle" as the passphrase, and you get this:

usersixdsixfiveseventhreeseventhreesixonesixsevensixfive

User6d657373616765.

Well, that's obviously not a Wynn forums account, so after a quick Google search, I found out that it links to a Reddit account with only 1 post.

The post contains:

3130342031313620313136203131322030353820303437203034372031303520303436203130352031303920313033203131372031313420303436203039392031313120313039203034372030363920303635203038392030393020313133203039372030393820303436203130362031313220313033


I have no idea how to solve it from here, but I think Letter 6 is halfway/almost complete.

 

don't forget this pls

 

Four new letters have been added and with more to come.

 

he wants happines/his son
just a guess, got nothin' xD

 

Why did you remove 5? I think I got the LLUDLUL part

 

PUZZLE 8:
Does he want The Bee Movie? I honestly don't know why I chose to do this, but I used Stenography and I got:

"according to all known laws of aviation there is no way a bee should be able
to fly its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground the
bee of course flies anyway because bees dont care what humans think is
impossible yellow black yellow black yellow black yellow black ooh black and
yellow lets shake it up a little barry breakfast is ready coming hang on a
second hello barry adam can you believe this is happening i cant ill pick you
up looking sharp use the stairs your father paid good money for those sorry
im excited heres the graduate were very proud of you son a perfect report
card all bs very proud ma i got a thing going here you got lint on your fuzz
ow thats me wave to us well be in row 118000 bye barry i told you stop flying
in the house hey adam hey barry is that fuzz gel a little special day
graduation never thought id make it three days grade school three days high
school those were awkward three days college im glad i took a day and
hitchhiked around the hive you did come back different"
This makes me think that he wants The Bee Movie.

 

I bet that is just a massive meme to throw you off, and the you need to use other methods to solve it.

 

Hm... maybe.

 

I think I know what the numbers at the bottom of the picture mean