Crypto 1¶

Question¶

If the Answer is foowrtty, quell est la reponse, qual e' la domanda, was ist die Antwort?

Solution¶

The question translates to

<English>  If the answer is foowrtty,
<French>   what is the answer,
<Italian>  what is the answer,
<German>   what is the answer?

foowrtty is the string fortytwo after applying a transformation on it: Split the string in half, reverse the second half, then interleave the two halves by alternating between them. Under this transposition cipher, ABCD1234 would translate to A4B3C2D1.

To find the solution, we translate forty-two into each of the above languages, apply the transformation on each one, then concatenated the answers in the same order (French<space>Italian<space>German).