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Film Club w/c 4 Apr 2025 - Enigma (2001 film)

Lotus

Well, my first week of my new film club was a flop - nobody did a review of Big Trouble in Little China apart from me, so I guess nobody fancied watching it.

I'm trying again - this week's film is Enigma (2001) I've always been fascinated by what went on in Bletchley park during WW2.

If you are interested in this film, it's available to watch for free on ITVX. If you watch it, please post a review here.

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  • I just reviewed this film and did a fun quiz question, but it's disappeared! Hopefully it will appear later, and hopefully this post will "bump" the thread.

     If you watch the film, please post your comments.

  • in reply to Lotus

    Hi. I was reading your thread. I think it will be back. I think your code quiz triggered a spam alert. I was just going to ask if you could send me a Enigma Machine to help me with the quiz (no good at puzzles - I even used to take the stickers off my rubics cube Grimacing)

  • in reply to mrs.snooks

    Ha, ha, I was no good at Rubiks cubes either, I think because they are a physical puzzle as well.

    If you had an enigma machine, you wouldn't be able to decrypt any message unless you had the key. I'll give you some clues to help:

    I said that my cipher followed the same substitution pattern as the word SUPPORT that I showed encrypted in my message below. So the substitution letters we already know are as follows:

    Original letters:            A. B. C. D. E. F  G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O.  P.  Q. R.  S.  T.  U. V. W. X. Y. Z

    Cipher Substitutions:  ?   ?   ?   ?  ?  ?   ?   ?  ?  ?   ?  ?   ?   ?   R.  S.  ?  U.  V.  W.  X. ?   ?   ?  ?   ?

    Also, I told you that the message referred to THE NAS - so can you see two 3 letter words in the encrypted message? When you find those, you can then fill in more of the missing cipher letters above.

    Finally, I used a numerical pattern to substitute the letters - can you see what it Is? It relates to the number that the letter falls at in the alphabet (e.g. O. Is 15, P. is 16, R is 18, etc) The enigma machine wouldn't have encrypted letters in a pattern, it was random, but I did it this way to try to make my message easier to decode.

    Good luck!

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  • in reply to mrs.snooks

    Ha, ha, I was no good at Rubiks cubes either, I think because they are a physical puzzle as well.

    If you had an enigma machine, you wouldn't be able to decrypt any message unless you had the key. I'll give you some clues to help:

    I said that my cipher followed the same substitution pattern as the word SUPPORT that I showed encrypted in my message below. So the substitution letters we already know are as follows:

    Original letters:            A. B. C. D. E. F  G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O.  P.  Q. R.  S.  T.  U. V. W. X. Y. Z

    Cipher Substitutions:  ?   ?   ?   ?  ?  ?   ?   ?  ?  ?   ?  ?   ?   ?   R.  S.  ?  U.  V.  W.  X. ?   ?   ?  ?   ?

    Also, I told you that the message referred to THE NAS - so can you see two 3 letter words in the encrypted message? When you find those, you can then fill in more of the missing cipher letters above.

    Finally, I used a numerical pattern to substitute the letters - can you see what it Is? It relates to the number that the letter falls at in the alphabet (e.g. O. Is 15, P. is 16, R is 18, etc) The enigma machine wouldn't have encrypted letters in a pattern, it was random, but I did it this way to try to make my message easier to decode.

    Good luck!

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