Cryptic Ciphers Contents

Babington - The cipher that cost Mary, Queen of Scots, ehr head BabingtonAlien - A modified version of Babington Bacon - The binary cipher of Sir Francis Bacon Blaise - An unusual cipher found in a book by Blaise Pascal BlaiseBlock - A variant of Blaise for friezes BlaiseRound - Another variant of Blaise, this time in circles Cowboy - A cipher based on cattle brands of the Old West CowboyMono - A monospaced version of Cowboy GoldBug - The cipher from Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Gold-Bug" GridWeb - A graphic concealing a cipher Illuminati - A cipher ascribed to the Illuminati Inquisitor - Purportedly used by the Inquisition to keep secret records Mary - Another cipher ascribed to Mary, Queen of Scots MorseCipher - A cipher based on International Morse Mystic - Another variant on Pigpen, from an old Daniel Beard book for Boy Scouts NugSoth - A broken pigpen which some people connect to the stories of Lovecraft Pigpen - The famous cipher, ascribed to the Masons, Illuminati, and MANY others PigpenSquare - A variant on Pigpen RoyalArch - Related to Pigpen, sometimes acribed to the Rosicrucians Slaney - The cipher from the Arthur Conan Doyle story "Adventure of the Dancing Men" Templar - A cipher purportedly used by the Knights Templar Vehmic - A cipher ascribed to the Vehmgericht of the Holy Roman Empire days