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Broken Sword 5 Hints
How can I decrypt that telegram?
1 of 6: It's a simple replacement code, and the fascists were stupid enough to also encrypt words you can guess.
2 of 6: Each sentence should end with "stop", so you already have 4 letters.
3 of 6: Now check for words that are nearly complete or patterns that repeat.
4 of 6: E.g. a three letter word starting with T that repeats might be THE. A one-letter word can only be A or I.
5 of 6: Complete on his way more and more words until the final text is visible:
6 of 6: the tabula veritatis was smuggled out of montsegur to catalonia by a group of cathar survivors stop i have confirmed this from confessions extracted by the dominican inquisitor eymerich of girona stop wolfram stop
