A Series of Ciphers

My original idea is scrapped, one sided conversation box is a stupid box. A BETTER box is a series of Ciphers that must be decrypted in order to progress to each stage.

This box will be closed with no way to open,


The first panel is entirely legible story concerning the The Black Knight on his way to the King Behind the White Castle to ask for his daughters hand in marriage. The story describes vaguely three quests, each quest is written in a cipher in order around the outside perimeter of the box. On either side in big block letters are the words YES and NO and at the end of initially legible story it is a cliffhanger as to her answer.

The first quest is to track a dragon who attacks only every other town, the [REDACTED] hint within the vague overview that lets the participant know that only [REDACTED] is part of the first story. Within the dragon hunting story is another clue as to how to decipher the second story. The clue is how the dragon talks, only responding using [REDACTED].

The second quest a word jumble, it is entirely made out of words from the [REDACTED] and is represented by a [REDACTED]. So the numerical representation for the word “numerical” would be [REDACTED].

The second quest describes the hunting of werewolves that are attacking villagers and stealing their sheep, inside the story are many references to [REDACTED]. This is the hint that to decipher the third challenge you must progress [REDACTED], or just [REDACTED] to any number in the cipher.

The third challenge, once deciphered is a [REDACTED] between the princess and the knight. The stakes are her hand in marriage, if he can win then they shall wed, if he loses he must leave. It goes on to describe the [REDACTED] and the princess declaring that he must [REDACTED] her in the next move or the answer is no.

Sorry so much had to be redacted or all the ciphers would be just given away! Anyways, within the initially legible portion is the question of weather or not the Princess will agree to marry the Knight or not, and the prize of knowing the answer to that question is hidden behind the three ciphers.

 The answer is also printed clearly on the outside, but because the wrong answer is also printed it is almost more tantalizing to know that the prize is already in your hands, you just don't have the knowledge to know which is false and which is true.

Each layer holds hints to the next layer, and in the true spirit of the most curious objects the secrets of my multi-cipher layer may never be unlocked....

Or immediately unlocked, I have no idea how clever I actually I am I just know that this would take awhile for me to unravel if I wasn't the one raveling it in the first place.

The box may be intricately decorated as well depending on how much room the completed text leaves me for decorum.