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Fans were left to unscramble the letters into 12 cities: Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, London, Melbourne, Santa Monica, New York, Nashville, Chicago, Beverly Grove and Las Vegas.—
Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025 -
That disappointment did not stop Burton from dominating the second chances contest, which ended with him unscrambling the pirate term Jolly Roger before any of the other players could even get out of their previous stage jail cells.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The answers will decrypt just before midnight on February 13.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
9 Feb. 2026
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To decrypt the message, the receiver has to use the same key to reverse the operation.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Jan. 2026
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Then, a machine-learning system decodes the visual patterns back into digital data.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Feb. 2026
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One example is the computational problem of decoding the Hawking radiation of a black hole.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Feb. 2026
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Pitch tipping — the art of deciphering what might be coming based on small tells a pitcher might have — is a legal and common practice.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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How fans experience the game and how referees decipher controversial calls will only get better as visual AI advances.—
Jason Corso,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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