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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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Well, any information that’s ever been transmitted on the Internet is a lost cause—because even if it was encrypted, an opponent could have downloaded and saved it for a future where quantum computers can decrypt any of the old methods.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
31 Mar. 2026
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WhatsApp and Signal are best known for using end-to-end encryption, which can prevent even the messaging services themselves from decrypting user chats.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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Yet behind that shine lies a hiring world that often feels closed, complex, and difficult to decode.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2026
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The original bill, House Bill 253, would ban teachers from using three-cueing, a method of teaching that encourages students to guess unfamiliar words based on pictures or context clues, rather than decode the words phonetically.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Mar. 2026
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Players will have to decipher a puzzle with clues from another player.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The clicks are part of a growing sperm whale phonetic alphabet that researchers at CETI are deciphering.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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