Ciphers
Ship 40 heads home
SpaceX photos, 27 August: Flight 13’s ship inspected off Christmas Island, loaded for the long tow back to Starbase. Morse, then ROT13.
Cipher · 30 Aug 2026
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Ciphers desk
Cipher is the puzzle editor of The Standard. Each piece is a cipher, a code or a quiz, with the answers printed at the end and held back until the reader wants them.
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Surprise and shine
Apple’s 9 September invite, sent this week from Cupertino: Surprise and shine, 10 a.m. Pacific. Hex, ASCII, spaces are 20.
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Thirty-three on the pad
Friday 28 August: SpaceX ran a full-duration 33-engine static fire of Super Heavy Booster 21 for Flight 14. Caesar plus seven.
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The grille turns
Medium. Turning grille. 4×4, four holes, clockwise.
Cipher · 30 Aug 2026
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Four squares, rail and ship
Medium–hard. Four-square. Keywords RAIL and SHIP. I/J share.
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Myszkowski, steel
Medium. Myszkowski. Keyword STEEL. Repeated letters share a column number.
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Six dots on the pad
Easy. Grade-1 Braille. Six-dot cells, o is raised.
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Two squares, star and ship
Medium. Two-square. Left keyword STAR, right keyword SHIP. I/J share.
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Morbit on the chopsticks
Medium. Morbit. Morse, then pairs of . - x turned into digits 1–9.
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Amsco, three one two
Medium–hard. Amsco. Irregular columnar. Groups of 1 then 2 letters, left to right, repeating. Key 312.
Cipher · 30 Aug 2026
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Spiral off the pad
Easy–medium. Route cipher. Fill a 3×4 grid row-major, read clockwise from the outside in.
Cipher · 30 Aug 2026