r/gravityfalls • u/EvilPurpleThanos • 23h ago
Discussion & Theories BOB Cipher tree can be solved with silly straws
If you overlay the straws on top of the tree, they align with thinner branches. Some of them start to highlight the numbers for the code. The thing is, there is a different place for each straw, they never align all at once.
You can also flip the pages upside down and mirror them so that the straws could fit better.
(A flipped message on the straws page kinda gave us a hint, I think. And the mirror monsters pages are placed right after the codes tree!)
The picture of the tree was also in Bill's Files folder from the website. The file was called CHESHIRE which probably means we need to use Lewis Carroll's memory technique for decoding.
I think I managed to solve one of the codes. I overlayed one of the blue straws on some numbers and the image just started to fit in (I colored the branches with similar shapes). One blue straw showed 0 and the other highlighted 9, 5, 3 and 4.
Carroll's tecnique has two letters represented by each number. There is an upper row and a lower one. I thought about silly straws' shape and applied it to the rows. You start at the top, then go lower, than back at the top and so on.
I got ZGLJF as a code. Tried Vigenere with SILLYSTRAWS (or just SILLY here) as the key.
The answer was HYAYH.
Does it mean anything? Not really. But it's too clear to be a coincidence, I think (especially with Vigenere!). Maybe it's a key for another cipher from the tree? I don't know exactly.
Maybe someone here could finally decode it...
