The Simlist Cipher

The Simlist Cipher

The true art of a cybersecurity specialist is to make something that is not visible into a visible form. This might relate to the activity of an intruder, and where the analyst must piece together parts of a puzzle to work out the, “Who, Why, Where and When?” elements. A core skill is to translate information in one form — such as bits and bytes — into another form. One of the best ways of training your mind for this is to crack ciphers.

And, so, did you know that The Sims had a secret cipher embedded in the games? Well, the cipher — named Simlist — models itself on simple representations of the letters — as if a young child had written them:

In the following, we see the word, “BOOKS”:

And here, with “DRINKS”:

Or with “DINER”:

And, so, can you decode this message [here]:

The answer is here.

If you are interested in ciphers, here are 105 different ones: