alphamaxstein treasure page

Welcome to the alphamaxstein treasure page.

Ever since the written word was invented, humans have been creating secret codes. One such code is the "alphamax code". It's quite challenging to crack unless you are familiar with its workings. The thing that makes it weird is that some of the letters will be correct. You've got to figure out which ones are wrong and what they should be.

The trick is to run an analysis on the number of times that each letter in the code is used. The most frequently used letters are then substituted with letters which are not frequently used, or are not used at all. It involves some trial and error but can be cracked if you don't give up.

Take a look at an example:

Here is the secret message for this page:
(it's a motto of themathlab.com and also a famous quote)

Grqat spbrbts havq always qkcjuktqrqd vbjlqkt jppjsbtbjk frjm mqdbjcrq mbkds.

Albert Qbkstqbk

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Keep track of how many times each letter is used in the code.

a		0	n	x	1
b	xxxx	4	o	xx	2
c	x	1	p		0
d	xxxx	4	q		0
e		0	r	x	1
f	xxxx	4	s	x	1
g		0	t	xxx	3
h	xxx	3	u		0
i	xx	2	v		0
j	xxxxx x	6	w	x	1
k		0	x	xxxxx x	6
l	x	1	y	x	1
m	xx	2	z		0

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Secret Message Example:
Mxry hxw x fittfj fxms dhobj lfjjcj dxb dhitj xb bnod.

*Notice: the 'j' and 'x' are used the most, so they will be switched out with two letters not used at all.

The 'b', 'd', and 'f'' are each used the second most so they will probably be switched out with letters used only once.

'a', 'e', 'g', 'k', 'p', 'q', 'u', 'v', and 'z' are not used at all. So 'j' and 'x' will switch with two of these.

We see an 'x' used by itself as a word in the third word of the code, so we assume the 'x' is really an 'a', and we switch them all out. This gives:

Mary haw a fittfj fams dhobj lfjjcj dab dhitj ab bnod.

We notice that three of the words end in 'j' so we decide to try switching 'j' for 'e'. This gives:

Mary haw a fittfe fams dhobe lfeece dab dhite ab bnod.

The 'b', 'd', and 'f'' are each used four times so they will switch out with 'c', 'l', 'n', 'r', 's', 'w', or 'y'.

The 'f' catches our attention next. In the word 'fittfe' if we switch 'f' to 'l', we get 'little'. The code then becomes:

Mary haw a little lams dhobe fleece dab dhite ab bnod.

At this point, many people will recognize the nursery rhyme and will complete the translation:

Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow.