For all of history, humans have enjoyed a good puzzle. Puzzles, codes, and ciphers have been found almost everywhere, from second-century Egypt to the 17th-century letters between King Charles I and Queen Henrietta-Maria. Still today, crossword puzzles, Rubik's cubes, and Sudoku all remain enjoyable ways to pass the time.
But not all puzzles are simply meant for fun and leisure. Ciphers and codes are, of course, also a great way to keep a secret, such as where one buried some hidden treasure. A well-crafted code can also inform your own military of certain movements and plans, and without revealing that information to an enemy. Many of the strongest ciphers and codes endured for decades or even centuries before finally being cracked.
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My grandma worked as a code breaker during WWII in Washington DC. I was always impressed by that.
Very cool!
you meam grandPA?😁🤣😂😅🤣🤣🤣
@@anonymousYTviewer69 No, I do not. It was my mother's mother.
That's pretty cool. If she's still with us, please remind her how cool she is and was.
@danidavis7912 She passed a few years ago in her mid-90s. She had a long life. Spent most of her years after the war farming in Minnesota.
Life was so tragically unfair to to Alan Turing. He saved millions, advanced computing by leaps and bounds, and was essentially pushed to suicide for being true to himself. I wonder how much more advanced computing might be had he lived on...
I agree but one point. His later life was truly heart breaking. Who that's going to commit suicide make a to do lists for the next day. I truly believe he did not commit suicide.
Wisely said
The only mystery left is the voice of this OG narrator
This narrator is the best!! Bring back timeline!!
YES!! Bring back Timeline!!
I love the original narrator, too! Where was this guy when I was taking history in high school? Oh I forgot in public school my history teacher was drunk! It's true 😅
12:03 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is my favorite poem.
My own handwriting is the most challenging cipher ever!!
My handwriting is so bad ...I have to hold it up to a mirror.🤔
Yay the original narrator is back!!!!
He's still around, he just doesn't narrate every video unfortunately.
This voice, sadly, isn't a real person.
@@TomVCunninghamok that's fair. I don't have to watch every video. :)
@@Synster73oh really... You don't say
@@Synster73His name is Tom Blank
So it turns out there's this secret writing on the back of the Declaration of Independence written in invisible ink.... 😁
And that's where we lost the Department of Homeland Security.
@@tremorsfan we stole the declaration of independence to keep it safe
Math geek! 🤣 narrator came out the gate swinging!
2:04 The Imitation Game (2014) is an excellent film!
Yes, those codebreaking machines were built by Turing, but don't call them Turing Machines. That term is reserved for the abstract concept that describes a mathematical model of computation.
“Singlehandedly” is kinda unfair to Turing’s team he worked with 😅
Thank God the narrator is back
There has always been a narrator. No AI voice on this channel.
jenniferlonnes back to her old tricks again trying in vain to defend the nasally narrator. AKA "The other guy"
@@Megadebt oh lol we have one of those here? must be that guys bf lol
@@wirelessdirk She literally comments on every single video as of late trying to defend the guy. It's pretty sad.
3:40 Iron Man was the #1 film on May 10, 2008, exactly ten years after I graduated from high school (May 10, 1998).
So glad you're back!!!!! I can start watching again!!
I’d love to see an in depth video on pretty much every one of these codes
Now, this is the voiceover guy I watch these videos for.
video's misleading: voynich manuscript has not been definitively cracked
They weren’t unbreakable if someone broke them 😂😂😂
Yay! Our wonderful narrator! A blessing to my ears! ❤️👂👂
Alan Turing most definitely did not deserve how he was treated! WE HAVE A VERY BAD RECORD WHEN IT COMES TO THE WAY WE TREAT THOSE WHO SAVE US, ALAN TURING and J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER to name but two!
A+ video! LOVE IT! What a fascinating topic and video!
Turing did not single-handedly change the course of history. He was one of a team who together with their individual skills solved the problem.
Turing was supposedly the one stubborn enough to keep faith with the bombes being able to decrypt the later (more complex) Enigma intercepts when his superiors at Bletchley were prepared to throw in the towel, but who knows how true that is at this point? He did invent the Turing test tho', which was quite prophetic given the rudimentary nature of computers at the time...
@@nunyabidniz2868Thank you.
Regarding the Voynich Manuscript, I just want to point out that Nicholas Gibbs' did not actually crack it, and crediting him is a controversey. Wikipedia: (QUOTE) In September 2017, television writer Nicholas Gibbs claimed to have decoded the manuscript as idiosyncratically abbreviated Latin.[103] He declared the manuscript to be a mostly plagiarised guide to women's health.[19] Despite initial excitement in the community surrounding Gibbs' theory, scholars judged Gibbs' hypothesis to be unoriginal. His work was criticised as patching together already-existing scholarship with a highly speculative and incorrect translation; Lisa Fagin Davis, director of the Medieval Academy of America, stated that Gibbs' decipherment "doesn't result in Latin that makes sense."[104] Davis added that she was "surprised the TLS published it."[105] Other researchers concurred.[24] (END QUOTE)
The most interesting video from this channel, imho. Most of the time I have at least a smidgen of familiarity, or even some passing knowledge of the subject. This video? Drew me in so deep I was actually disappointed when it ended! Fantastic job....more please!
0:13 Typewriters are so much fun, I have a really great one from the brand We R Memory Keepers. I bought it at Michaels.
0:48 The Da Vinci Code was the #1 film on May 19, 2006, exactly four years (May 19, 2002) after I graduated at Doane University.
Why do you post these?
@@ImTheCrew The Tennessee Titans name was announced in 1998, the year I graduated high school. Coach Brian Callahan received his bachelor's degree in Sociology (like I did four years earlier than him). Brian Callahan is the son of Bill Callahan, who coached for Nebraska (my homestate).
@@btetschner but why do you continually post things like this?
@@ImTheCrew The Titanic won Best Feature at the Academy Awards in 1998, the awards ceremony was the most-watched in history. Then later in the year the Tennessee Titans were named...which is not a coincidence after the Titanic's success.
Nice video! These people are just genious!
The enigma and Japanese purple Codes where the best ones solved.Kudos to Alan Turing , he should have been awarded the George Cross, not bullied to suicide foe being homosexual. Thank God the Queen pardoned him before she died.He should be awarded a posthumous recognition for his life saving work.
Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first. Julia Hartz
7:44 Wow, a secret order so secret that a internet search comes up empty.
If something broke something unbreakable, then it wasn't unbreakable....it was just hard.
Tell that to my former roommate: he had a knack for demonstrating this or that "unbreakable" item, leading to shards of Corelle cookware all over the kitchen [one example.] Explaining to him "there's a difference between dropping a plate on the floor and willfully smashing it against a tile countertop" didn't mollify his disappointment... 😄
@@nunyabidniz2868 unbreable codes arent the same as "unbreakable" dishes ALL dishes are breakable. unless its plastic something
10:57 That is interesting that the guy's family name is Whalen, that is the same family name of my friend that bought The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and played it our freshman year!
oh man you don't know the firestorm you just started by saying that it was Turing alone who cracked Enigma.
I wish this video said what the code actually said
Thought this was a General Sam video from that thumbnail
Is this really good 🌿🌿🌿 or is this episode the funniest one ever?
I just hope and pray that the Weird History narrator is never caught.
Should have included the Beale cipher as a special bonus at the end. Oh well...
- voynich has NOT been solved.
oh sh*t that reminds me--i haven't done my Wordle yet today!
They guys back
Ever since someone commented about how this is now an AI variant of the original narrator, it's stuck in the back of my mind. Anyone else notice a difference or think this might be a thing?
I thought a married couple cracked the Zodiac’s code. They were both teachers I think.
0:03 One of my friends bought The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 1998 and played it all the time our freshman year at Doane University. It is considered by many to be the greatest video game ever created. Its induction into the Video Game Hall of Fame was announced on May 5, 2022, the date I graduated with my Health Sciences Associate.
one of the best games I've ever played
Everything you wanted to know about cunning linguists but were afraid to ask.
Timeline has left chat 😢😢😢
More accurately, the Enigma was first cracked by mathematicians in Poland.
I'm still not sure the zodiac code has been cracked. That guy was freakin smart.
The Voice is back 😊👍🏼☕️!!
Absolute props for giving credit to Alan Turing. We as humanity owe that man great credit for his work during WW2. Bletchley park. Just because this man was a (Homosexual) does and did not give England justification in leading to his Suicide.
Turing 😢
Like all Weird History videos, this one is fascinating. But . . . . I'm afraid you're wrong about one thing. In the September 17, 2017 edition of Smithsonian Magazine's "Smart News," there is an article titled "Here’s What You Need to Know About the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript." In it, we learn that expert cryptologists began poking holes in Gibbs's theory soon after he published it. Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of America, said that the television writer's decoded text “doesn’t result in Latin that makes sense.”
Alexa, play *catch a kill* by destroy lonely
Rapa Nui scripture (rongorongo tablets) is still unreadable, same as Cretan ancient scripture, Linear A.
You fail to say the name of Allan’s machine is called Christopher it would have been fun 😅
They still have a king 😏
If AI is to be useful, it'd be nice if it could crack all these other unknown languages and codes
If there’s no link between old languages then ai couldn’t decode it. Ai only has the ability to pull information from across the internet. It doesn’t have original thought. It can just process large amounts of information fast. If there’s no existing data on it, Then it doesn’t even know it exists
And we dont hear what they say?
🎉🎉🎉🎉 OUR FAVORITE NARRATOR IS BACK!!! Do not ever let this man not narrate again. He’s the GOAT! Whatever he’s asking for, GIVE IT TO HIM!
Nine times?
Word.
Hppe Kpc!
Dear WH channel. By now, I think you can well tell the difference in views between the videos with the original narrator and those without him. And it's not about skill, it's about more than that.For me, since I have become a subscriber (and this doesn't happen very often) Tom Blank has that soothing voice of a long time friend. For you, it's the essence of the channel. Sincerely, someone whom you often make his day.
Someone whose day you often make.
Kryptos.
I've worked on the enigma machine. There is no code. You need two exactly identical machines - and that month's wheel setup. The booklets were either captured - or snuck out of Germany by anti-Nazis.
Not even close. They cracked it every time the machine settings were changed.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
Always drink your ovaltine
When did we stop saying mother & father & started using mom & dad?
Nicholas Gibbs In September 2017, television writer Nicholas Gibbs claimed to have decoded the manuscript as idiosyncratically abbreviated Latin. He declared the manuscript to be a mostly plagiarized guide to women's health. Despite initial excitement in the community surrounding Gibbs' theory, scholars judged Gibbs' hypothesis to be unoriginal. His work was criticized as patching together already-existing scholarship with a highly speculative and incorrect translation; Lisa Fagin Davis, director of the Medieval Academy of America, stated that Gibbs' decipherment "doesn't result in Latin that makes sense." Davis added that she was "surprised the TLS published it. Other researchers concurred. Bruh do you even research before putting up this video or just whatever?
there are always mistakes in these videos, they're entertaining, but they barely qualify as 'amateur' content.
My jaw dropped open, then I came to the comments for confirmation. Thank you!
I hate KZhead titles. "People broke unbreakable codes." Obviously they weren't unbreakable, then.
Why are you here?
@@williamphillips2671 Oh no! Negative criticism? Better defend the huge KZheadr with 4 million subscribers! I said I don't like the title, not that the video itself is bad.
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They did Turing dirty. After the what he did for the country and the world they would not leave him be just because of his sexual orientation.
The Masonic cult masters certainly are a egnima.
*Enigma?
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal! Eating RED BARON PEPPERONI PIZZA*†...while watching this Weird History video! * From the Weird History Food video "The History of the Frozen Pizza" † The actress Busy Phillips worked with Red Baron, there is an article about it titled "Red Baron Pizza Partners With Actress Busy Philipps To Help Parents Keep Mealtime Battles At Bay This Summer"
Stop trying to be funny. It's very cringe
Thank you for this! 🔢