In what has become the unfolding mystery of the month, the quiet and usually subdued town of Cripple Creek was thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and suspense yesterday. The usually serene Nightbyte Telegram Station received a telegram that has left its typically steadfast operators a touch more puzzled than a squirrel at a nut-free picnic. The telegram transmitted through the airwaves arrived in a coded format that has not been seen before, impenetrable and seemingly impossibly intricate, spelling out the code: 8CSOXVHF.
Nightbyte, known for its knack in dealing with usual and unusual telegrams alike, was confronted with an entirely new kind of challenge. The coded communication, it seems, was not intended for the faint of heart. However, the intrepid team at Nightbyte buckled up and decided to tackle the seemingly insurmountable task of decoding the mysterious message encoded in 8CSOXVHF.
“The first reaction, of course, was perplexion. But we’re not ones to back down from a challenge,” says operator-in-chief, Lucy Sparks. Her calm demeanour did not betray the whirling maelstrom of calculations, pattern recognition, and cracking codes
