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What is the hardest code to crack?

They are not alone - hundreds of people have dedicated their lives to deciphering the meaning behind historic texts. Some have succeeded, but many puzzles still go unsolved. ... Here are 5 of the world's hardest codes to crack Rosetta Stone. ... Voynich manuscript. ... Phaistos Disc. ... The Shugborough Inscription. ... Mayan script.

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A museum in China is offering 10,000 yuan ($2,000 AUD approx.) to anyone who can decipher inscriptions written on six gold coins. The coins were first discovered in a small glazed pot on a farm in the southern Hunan province in the 1960s. The coins were manufactured during China's Yuan dynasty, but they are believed to be written in a rare form of Arabic. Since arriving at Jinshi City's museum in the 1980s, archaeologists have remained puzzled. They are not alone - hundreds of people have dedicated their lives to deciphering the meaning behind historic texts. Some have succeeded, but many puzzles still go unsolved. In a stroll through history, here we've collected five of the most influential and difficult challenges of cryptanalysis.

1. Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone dates back to 196 BC, but in the modern day we rediscovered it in 1799 - inscribed in three different scripts, it provided an excellent puzzle for archaeologists. As the stone carried essentially the same text (a decree from Egyptian King Ptolemy V) in three languages, it provided the first key to Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion.

2. Voynich manuscript

The 15th century Voynich manuscript has been described as the world’s most mysterious text. The 240-page long book is written in an unidentified writing system and contains images of plants and naked women. Throughout history many cryptographers have worked on figuring it out, and it has even been examined by a team of prominent World War Two code breakers - but to this day the meaning of these pages remains unknown.

3. Phaistos Disc

Hundreds have made attempts at deciphering the fired clay disc discovered on the Greek island of Crete. Despite Dr Gareth Owens of the Technological Educational Institute of Crete revealing that the disc inscribes a prayer to a mother, many in the archaeological community think that there is still not enough context available for specific meaning and use of the artefact. Some even think the item is a total fake.

4. The Shugborough Inscription

The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of ten letters - O U O S V A V V, placed on a line between the letters D M - carved onto the 18th-century Shepherd's Monument. It has never been properly explained, and is another of the great puzzles that cryptographers are still scratching their heads over.

5. Mayan script

Called one of the most visually striking writing systems of the world, the Maya hieroglyphic writing is exceedingly complex, and it has been found all over monument carvings, painted pottery, and in their ancient texts. The decipherments of these glyphs has been a laborious process spanning decades, and while scholars agree that most of the texts are now readable with fairly high accuracy, new discoveries on to these texts are still coming to light.

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During its showcase for the future of its Yakuza franchise, developer Ryu Ga Gatoku Studio announced that in the west, the franchise would now be rebranded as Like a Dragon. According to a Sega representative who spoke to Kotaku, the rebrand is to for consistency's sake: in Japan, the series is known as Ryū ga Gotoku, aka "Like a Dragon." Outside of Japan, Sega's crime franchise has been known as Yakuza since the original game debuted in 2006 to better illustrate what the games were about. It's not every day that franchises change their names, and perhaps the closest example was when Activision added "Call of Duty" onto the 2009 Modern Warfare 2, as brand awareness for it was lower without the logo. The Yakuza name stuck for multiple installments until 2020, when the seventh installment was called Yakuza: Like a Dragon in the west, and Like a New Dragon in Japan. The only other instance of a name change for the franchise has been its spinoff series Judge Eyes, which is known as Judgment outside of Japan. Like a Dragon's rebrand will make itself known beginning in February 2023 with the period piece spinoff, Like a Dragon: Ishin. The franchise will continue with Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name later that same year, and Like a Dragon 8 in 2024. The Like a Dragon franchise has come to be extremely popular in the west over time thanks to various sequels. Given how long the name has been running outside of Japan, it'll be interesting to see how Sega gets the name change across for those not already in the know.

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