Nope…that’s the only text on that card.
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Also has anyone done any of the other sets? There’s some ambiguous rules in the playfair cipher description I found…
Edit: I’m working on mine now…since the letter said two ciphers to decrypt, I’m thinking it’s page-word-letter, which will then need a playfair key. I’m assuming the page number includes the intro and forward in the book, as going by the written number got me somewhere with a “letter” number higher than the letter count of the associated word. So I’m going to see where this gets me.
Edit edit: nvm I just realized I’ve got some third column numbers up in the 20s…
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Hey Tink, I got all yours done if you want it… I’m in the process of figuring out the cypher word 
and the page numbers don’t include the intro or foreword
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Ooooo…Awesome! I had an idea for the playfair side…But there were two ways of making the square, so imma have to science it a bit!
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Hm…Well, I thought I had some options for the words, but either I don’t or I’ve got my square going the wrong way. The general overview I found said that the 5x5 square can be made by filing in the cipher word, then the rest of the alphabet but either I/J share a spot, you leave out J, or you leave out Q…And the letters typically just fill the lines left to right but sometimes people choose other patterns. I found some other sources that agree that you leave out Q, which to be fair, seems less valuable than having a separate I and J.
For key words, my first guess was the house name on the back of the code sheet. But that seemed to just be spitting back random letters. My next thought was “Hope” since that seems to be randomly capitalized in the letter Catherine posted. But I’m still getting a random assortment of letters out. Having it be “hope” makes sense to me…having one key word instead of, presumably, one for each house (particularly if the author and friends were keeping this secret from their houses…)
But I’m like 97% certain I understand the decoding rules once you HAVE the square. So…Possibilities:
- I might not have found the word yet
- I might have found the right word but chosen the wrong square configurations
- My brain needs the sleeps
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I’ve been trying to brute force it with a few different words (if letters double I’ve been dropping them)
Illumination, , illuminated, hope, despair, oculus, flints, flintforge, mercy, supposing, house 
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I’ve been following along with all of your updates @Skylad and whomever was doing mine. Sorry, brain is fried. I haven’t gotten very far and I’m trying to figure out if there’s another cipher that goes along with how it all the rows repeat.
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I’ve got a new idea for the key for the square…what if it’s not a word, it’s a phrase? I didn’t notice when I tried last time that “Illuminated” was also mysteriously capitalized. So what if the box starts with “Hope Illuminated”? I just filled out the rest of the square (the method that seemed most common: no Q, rows filled left to right, fill with remaining letters not used in key). So I’m going to give that a go and I’ll report back!
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Additional edit to Tinker’s set:
61/3/7 should be 61/4/7
Everything else should be accurate.
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Take photos of EVERYTHING with letters on it
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This going to sound really stupid, but does anyone remember the key for the letter riddles? I think I threw mine out and I can’t remember if the book was TMP 1 or 2 and of the code went “page, sentence , word” or something else.
Not the paper btw, but the answered riddle.
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Nah it was the guide to Magiq and we have all been stumped on the cypher word
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Ah. That makes sense why I never could make sense of it. I was using the wrong book. 
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Hahaha. Look you had fun and that’s the most important part 
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