My NINTH cake day is in a couple weeks. Insane.

Enjoy some presents on me!

If you wanna thank me send some cat pics or tell me your fav SG memory.

Lvl 3, ends May 21st.

EDIT:

Hey all! At least 166 of you got the puzzle, congrats :)

The puzzle was a substitution cipher with the key being the "Dancing Men Cipher." All that was needed was to match the dancing man to the corresponding letter. If you hovered over the dancing men code picture, it said "sub cipher capitalized" to help indicate that all the letters needed to be capital. The flag is apart of the cipher and represents the end of the word - not a capital letter or otherwise. The capital letters were the five letters needed for the giveaway url.

Here is some info from boxentriq about the cipher:

  • The Dancing Men cipher originated from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
    In the story, Sherlock Holmes examines the occurrences of the dancing figures, and realizes that it is a substitution cipher. He then cracks the code by frequency analysis.
  • Not all letters appear in the book. Sherlock Holmes fans have tried to find a pattern for many years. A Danish scholar, Aage Rieck Sørensen, found a hidden pattern in the cipher and added the missing letters (and numerals).
  • Text is written without spaces. Instead, each man at the end of a word holds a flag.
  • Dancing men code is a simple form of monoalphabetic substitution cipher.

Thanks everyone and see you at the next puzzle!

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Happy CakeDay!

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I seem to be still missing something 🤔

Anyways...

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Ahah thank you very much!!

2 years ago
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i surely can read this picture, i know about clue (solved about mb hundred puzzles on sg) but why i can't solve your?!

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Early happy cakeday shadowedpillow!

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Happy Cakeday Shadowedpillow. Thanks for the puzzle and for sharing with us.

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Happy Cake Day :)

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Happy Cake Day!

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Happy cakeday! :)

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Bump and Happy cakeday! 🎉🎂🥳

It took me a while to figure out how to do it correctly and I almost didn't notice. 😂

Thanks!.

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Bump!

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Bump!

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And here I am, who recently finished all the Sherlock Holmes books, and still cant solve the puzzle, despite the similarity. Thanks for the chance anyway!
As for your cakeday, congratulations and here are two recent pics of one of my cats.
Cat1
Cat2

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Let every day be blessed. Happy Cake Day.

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Fun puzzle, thanks!

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Tried so many combinations, but I must be doing something wrong

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Happy cakeday !
My best SG memory is surely this. I won the GA on my birthday being the only entry.

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Bump!!!

Happy cake day! ^_^

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Thanks!
Never heard of this cipher before)

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Happy cakeday!

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Happy Cakeday! :)
also bump for solved

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Understand what to do, but not where to do it. Directions unclear. Off to buy another sub.

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Happy Cake Day ;)

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Happy (early) 🎂day!

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Happy cake day in advance!

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Happy cakeday! 🍰

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bump for solution posted

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