On the Subject of the Wonder Cipher
What happens is a mystery!
This module has a screen, a keyboard, and two buttons and a light on the top.
The screen will display a 20-character message. To solve the module, encode the message using a Wonder Cipher.
Pressing the top-left button will toggle the screen’s display from the message to an input terminal to enter the encoded message. Type the encoded message into the terminal and press the submit button to submit your answer. Submitting a wrong or incomplete answer will yield a strike.
Characters on the screen are always displayed in two rows, each with two groups of 5 characters. Some characters may not be entered into the terminal and are marked in red on the keyboard.
Step 1:
Take all the characters from the screen in order and convert each of them to five-digit binary numbers using the table below. Append all the numbers to make one large binary number.
Char | Value | Char | Value | Char | Value | Char | Value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 00000 | 8 | 01000 | J | 10000 | S | 11000 | |||
1 | 00001 | 9 | 01001 | K | 10001 | T | 11001 | |||
2 | 00010 | B | 01010 | L | 10010 | V | 11010 | |||
3 | 00011 | C | 01011 | M | 10011 | W | 11011 | |||
4 | 00100 | D | 01100 | N | 10100 | X | 11100 | |||
5 | 00101 | F | 01101 | P | 10101 | Y | 11101 | |||
6 | 00110 | G | 01110 | Q | 10110 | Z | 11110 | |||
7 | 00111 | H | 01111 | R | 10111 | ? | 11111 |