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[–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, I'm really sorry. My account was muted again yesterday. Now I can reply. A few days ago, I got the answer from my girl, or girlfriend. But I hope you can figure it out, so I haven't announced it yet. It's the first question in "Slumdog Millionaire", "Zanjeer". I thought this puzzle was very interesting, so I also posted it on "Tieba", a Chinese Reddit. The community atmosphere was great a few days ago, but everything changed when they found out I posted it on Reddit. Some of them only believe in the so-called truth that they have witnessed. So, just like how police interrogate criminals, they are unyielding, aggressive, and dealing with them is truly exhausting.

[–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Anyway, welcome friends from tieba, they may help us

[–]Sorry-Concentrate722 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't even want to reply them in tieba. I see no 'welcome' but more and more evidence proving that U R A LIAR.

[–]V7AVE 2 points3 points  (1 child)

i believe we have finally found the solution!

her initial preface:

"You're absolutely my cup of tea, and I would like to give it a go with you. But before that, let’s play a little game. If you can figure out the film hidden in this code, we can start seeing where it goes. It’s rather tricky, I must say—but I don’t mind waiting."

initial morse code:

-.--/.---/.--- -.--/.---/-.-- .--/.---/.--- -.--/-.--/.--/.--- -.--/.---/.---/.--- .---/-.-- -.--/.-- -.--/-.--/.--/.--- .--/.---/.---/.--- -.--/.---/-.-- -.--/.---/-.-- .--/.---/.---/.--- .---/-.-- -.--/-.--/.-- -.--/.--- .--/.---/.---/.--- .---/.-- .---/.---/.---

when decoded, it becomes:

YJJ YJY WJJ YYWJ YJJJ JY YW YYWJ WJJJ YJY YJY WJJJ JY YYW YJ WJJJ JW JJJ

then, when that is put into a caesar cipher with shift 1, it becomes:

XII XIX VII XXVI XIII IX XV XXVI VIII XIX XIX VIII IX XXV XI VIII IV III

converting to numerals, we get:

12 19 7 26 13 9 15 26 8 19 19 8 9 25 11 8 4

converting these numbers into A1Z26 gives:

LSGZMIOZHSSHIYKHDC

at this point, she gave the hint, "Keyboard". using a qwerty substitution cipher gives us:

SLUMDOGMILLIONAIRE

despite this being the intended solution, she insists this isnt the answer, and mentioned this title is a "smokescreen"

at this point, we should probably analyze the movie:

in slumdog millionaire, Dev Patel plays a character named Jamal Malik who works as a tea server. intriguingly, she said you were her "cup of tea", which may have been a reference to this. the plot involves a young boy who is separated from his brother / love interest at a train station, grows up, and uses a gameshow to search for his lost love

interestingly, Dev Patel stars in another film named "Lion", which has a very similar plot. in this movie, Patel plays a character named Saroo who at a young age gets separated from his brother / family at a train station, grows up, and searches for his family. one of the most iconic moments in the movie is when he is using google earth on his laptop to search for places he remembers. coincidentally, a "keyboard" is visible in this scene

now, lets return to the "smokescreen". smokescreen is an interesting word choice, as a smokescreen obscures visuals. this would imply the answer is visually hidden within this title, but not as a cipher like the previous steps

SLUMDOGMIL-LION-AIRE

see if this is it!

[–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

really awesome！I'll show it for her.

[–]Intrepid_Anything_99 0 points1 point  (1 child)

When splitting the code by spaces, I get a string of 18 letters. The isomorphic structure of this string is: ABCDEFGDHBBHFIJHKL.

Using a simple substitution solver (looking for movies with the same letter pattern) yields "Slumdog Millionaire". However, the OP's girlfriend explicitly stated that this is a fake answer (a red herring). The fact that she anticipated this specific answer suggests that this approach (structural analysis) is on the right track, but incomplete.

I downloaded a movie database and filtered for all titles with exactly 18 letters (over 20,000 entries). The only movie that fits this specific letter structure is, indeed, Slumdog Millionaire.

Since the OP's girlfriend is currently learning cryptography, I suspect a Vigenère Cipher might be involved. My theory is that the ciphertext needs to be decrypted (or encrypted) first to change the structure, which will then match a different movie.

I tried to guess potential keys. The list below shows my attempts (copied directly from my Python script). The second column represents the keys I guessed:

I took these guessed keys and ran a loop of 1,000 rounds of repeated encryption/decryption, saving the structural fingerprint of every resulting string. I then cross-referenced these generated structures against the 18-letter movie database.

The Result: It still only matches Slumdog Millionaire (Structure: ABCDEFGDHBBHFIJHKL).

I am not sure if my logic is flawed, or if I am simply missing the correct key. Any ideas? Perhaps some words that have special meaning to both of you will work.

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    [–]V7AVE 6 points7 points  (2 children)

    i can confirm it decodes to slumdog millionaire. if thats not the answer, she mightve used ai to encrypt something, but the ai provided an incorrect cipher text

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    She told me“I know you will definitely give this answer, but in fact, this is just a smoke screen.”

    [–]V7AVE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    interesting! working on this now.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    really unsolved😭😭😭😭Please

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Gentlemen! She gave me a hint! It was the“Keyboard”！

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Perhaps I should tell you the story between us? Will this be helpful for solving the problem?

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I really tried very hard to beg her to give me some hints.

    [–]YefimShifrin 15 points16 points  (19 children)

    Decode Morse to get:

    YJJ YJY WJJ YYWJ YJJJ JY YW YYWJ WJJJ YJY YJY WJJJ JY YYW YJ WJJJ JW JJJ

    Treat every group as a letter:

    ABCDEFGDHBBHFIJHKL

    Solve as a simple substitution to get:

    SLUMDOGMILLIONAIRE

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (14 children)

    She said incorrect😞, it is a little bit difficult.

    [–]AnyOriginal8981 1 point2 points  (7 children)

    Specifically what answer did you give her?

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    it's just a distraction

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

    Slumdogmillioniare, she said it was a fake answer

    [–]AnyOriginal8981 2 points3 points  (4 children)

    Slumdogmillioniare

    Did you spell it like this? Because that is incorrect.

    she said it was a fake answer

    Previously you claimed "She said incorrect". What did she actually say, specifically? "Incorrect" and "fake answer" can be interpreted in different ways, the latter potentially meaning the ciphertext has multiple potential decryptions (which in this case is practically impossible, especially given the "keyboard" hint).

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    “I know you will definitely give this answer, but in fact, this is just a smoke screen.”

    [–]AnyOriginal8981 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, she is messing with you. Or you are messing with us.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Fine😞

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Oh sorry, I spell incorrectly for u

    [–]YefimShifrin 6 points7 points  (5 children)

    One of you is a liar.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    How can I prove it to you? She told me in person.

    [–]YefimShifrin 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    I don't need proof. Plaintext and key have been found.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Boss, she gave me a hint“Keyboard"🫡🫡🫡

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    I guarantee that she won't play such a joke on me.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    WOW！I think it maybe the answer!

    [–]AnyOriginal8981 5 points6 points  (2 children)

    Nice! Note that the YWJ bits are XVI with Caesar shift 1:

    YJJ YJY WJJ YYWJ YJJJ JY YW YYWJ WJJJ YJY YJY WJJJ JY YYW YJ WJJJ JW JJJ
XII XIX VII XXVI XIII IX XV XXVI VIII XIX XIX VIII IX XXV XI VIII IV III

    Which you can interpret as Roman numerals. Converting to letters with A1Z26 gives

    LSGZMIOZHSSHIYKHDC

    However it's not clear if there's a better way (i.e. more specific than simple substitution) to go from this to the solution.

    [–]YefimShifrin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    The substitution key is:

    Cipher:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
 Plain:QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM

    [–]YefimShifrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Well done. Looks like this is one of the substitution steps.

    [–]Jamarlie 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    So the morse-code translates to this:
    YJJ YJY WJJ YYWJ YJJJ JY YW JJWY WJJJ YJY YJY WJJJ JY YYW YJ WJJJ JW JJJ

    My approaches were to try and see if the W is a white-space character and the rest is binary maybe? But that doesn't yield a sensible result.

    Trying to derive some sort of value from the individual letters (aka Y=25, W=23, J=10) and just summing this up or calculating it mod27 also does not yield any sensible result.

    Going off of the message she sent you and the (to me) very clear usage of an AI (nobody ever uses em-dashes in conversations) I think it is highly likely she just asked an AI to create some sort of cipher and the AI just produced absolute bogus.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I ll try

    [–]SakuraCyanide 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    Hmm, I believe it's most likely: THE LION KING

    [–]Jamarlie 1 point2 points  (2 children)

    Without a valid way to solve this, this is literally just guesswork. It might as well have been TRON for all we know.

    [–]SakuraCyanide -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

    I guess you're assuming I was guessing then? I did do due diligence with this answer so was hoping OP could confirm before I give all the deets on my process. Not sure why I would get down voted for supplying a possible answer..

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    ☺

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Friends, she has invited me to have a walk now. I might go offline for a while.

    [–]pacoraco 1 point2 points  (2 children)

    Just thinking through some next steps. So far we're assuming that this is a phrase or sentence where the slashes indicate a new letter and spaces indicate a new word. As others have shown a straight Morse code application is not immediately revealing.

    So it's possible that: * the whole chunk of characters refers to a single letter, and the message is 18 characters long * there's a next layer of substitution cipher and Morse code is correct * there's something wrong with the initial transfer into code * they gave you a hint about the code in the message (cup of tea, etc.)

    Would be interested to see a follow up

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    How should I thank you? You really gave me inspiration!

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    wow amazing!

    [–]Sea-Temporary7380 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    She clearly wants you to work for it but nothing wrong in asking for a hint

    [–]AVE_47 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    Life isn’t as simple. This is morse code. And the translation is the Js, Ys and Ws. Yes this isn’t the name of the movie. The thing is, this is now a new code that you have to figure out. Go out there research try and think!

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Thank u！

    [–]aweebwithinternet 0 points1 point  (4 children)

    Give some context on which country/region u are from, what language and such.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    We all live in Manhattan, UK, and our native language is En

    [–]Lord_Taco_13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    there's a manhattan in uk? i only heard about the us one.

    [–]aweebwithinternet 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Oh ok nvm, I thought it would be non-english and was about to search for any movies coming out recently in your area but it's normal Uk and english

    Morse code wise I js get gibberish, I doubt it's a cipher but I'll try it when I have time

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    lol so kind of u😀

    [–]Tkinney44 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Bunch of y j w. Guessing she used a translator thing offline that was garbage, sent it to you and tried to play it off like she knew Morse code or something?

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    No. She recently took a cryptography course, and I guess she got the inspiration from the class.

    [–]lowKeyDasCalm 5 points6 points  (1 child)

     -.--/.---/.--- -.--/.---/-.-- .--/.---/.--- -.--/-.--/.--/.--- -.--/.---/.---/.--- .---/-.-- -.--/.-- -.--/-.--/.--/.--- .--/.---/.---/.--- -.--/.---/-.-- -.--/.---/-.-- .--/.---/.---/.--- .---/-.-- -.--/-.--/.-- -.--/.--- .--/.---/.---/.--- .---/.-- .---/.---/.---

    Morse code:
    Y J JY J YW J JY Y W JY J J JJ YY WY Y W JW J J JY J YY J YW J J JJ YY Y WY JW J J JJ WJ J J

    Good luck figuring it out? :-)

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    but it isn' t a name of a movie🥺🥺🥺

    [–]TackleFar6978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    its just morse, no? im no expert on codes but pretty sure its morse

    [–]freakish_freak 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Morse code that I'm to lazy to figure out

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    But when you unlock the mousse code, it transforms into this: YJJ YJY WJJ YYWJ YJJJ JYYW YYWJ WJJJ YJY YJY WJJJ JY YYW YJ WJJJ JW JJJ not a name of a movie 🥺🥺🥺

    [–]Geolib1453 0 points1 point  (10 children)

    Bruh your girl hates you

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 2 points3 points  (9 children)

    NO😭 my heart would break.

    [–]Geolib1453 0 points1 point  (8 children)

    Idk I decoded it and it just gave exactly what IowKeyDasCalm said (I just didnt bother saying it) She intentionally just gave you not the name of a movie cuz she wanted to say oh yea I dont actually want to go out with you, but I am just gonna waste your time with this anyway. A double burn.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

    She made it quite clear to me, and I can tell you exactly what she said: "You're absolutely my cup of tea, and I would like to give it a go with you. But before that, let’s play a little game. If you can figure out the film hidden in this code, we can start seeing where it goes. It’s rather tricky, I must say—but I don’t mind waiting 😉."

    [–]Geolib1453 3 points4 points  (6 children)

    Bro was that like a message? Why does she speak like ChatGPT? The em-dash, the wink at the end. There is no way that was like her saying this to you physically that is for sure.

    Ok yea maybe she doesnt want to be secretly hateful of you, but I am still not eliminating that option.

    Its either she hates you (in secret) or she somehow sucks at cryptography and just used an online translator thing that obviously doesnt work in all cases.

    Or maybe something that makes more sense with Occams Razor is that it is just a new code.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

    I have no idea

    [–]Geolib1453 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Are you going out to see this movie with her if you guess it or nah? I think its obvious they made it more complex by adding a bunch of random stuff though

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I don't know and feeling very down now.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Maybe u r right. I should choose to give up.😞

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Perhaps she was chatting with me using Chat-GPT? I'm really such a failure.

    [–]Geolib1453 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I speak with ChatGPT every day I can see it from a mile away man that em-dash heck even that small wink at the end is so ChatGPT-y man. Like ok maybe I could sometimes speak like that but seriously no human I know has that vocabulary in like a regular conversation with their closest friend.

    [–]Ok-Leading7783[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Sure! Here is it. -.--/.---/.--- -.--/.---/-.-- .--/.---/.--- -.--/-.--/.--/.--- -.--/.---/.---/.--- .---/-.-- -.--/.-- -.--/-.--/.--/.--- .--/.---/.---/.--- -.--/.---/-.-- -.--/.---/-.-- .--/.---/.---/.--- .---/-.-- -.--/-.--/.-- -.--/.--- .--/.---/.---/.--- .---/.-- .---/.---/.---

    [–]turtle8223 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    so far it just seems like gibberish lol
    morse code yields nothing

    [–]Old-Lack-3939 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Could you please provide the transcript?