The speaker, a cryptographer, shares a humorous and challenging game they've created to uncover a secret message. They start by explaining that cryptographers uncover secret messages by breaking complicated codes. The speaker then hides their deepest secret in a code and challenges the listener to uncover it.
The game involves a series of puzzles and tasks, including using a Caesar cipher to decipher a message, finding invisible ink with a black light, and serenading a pizzeria's cashier with a haiku. The speaker uses a variety of methods to stump the cryptographer, including making the room feel like a birthday party and creating distractions.
Despite the cryptographer's failure, the speaker reveals that they were mostly just having fun and that the majority of the game was not about cryptography but was "plain weird". The speaker ends the game by asking if the listener has shampoo, and when they say they have mayonnaise, the speaker reveals that they were actually investigating the listener's deepest secret.
1. Hidden messages are prevalent yet often unseen.
2. The role of a cryptographer is to uncover secret messages by breaking complicated codes.
3. The speaker is attempting to hide a secret right under a cryptographer's nose.
4. The speaker is concerned that their secret might not smell pleasant.
5. A cryptographer's job involves looking at encrypted data and using mathematical algorithms to determine its safety.
6. The speaker has spent the last two weeks planning a strategy to keep their secrets safe forever.
7. The speaker has created a series of difficult puzzles to test the cryptographer's skills.
8. The speaker has decorated the room in a scary manner to make the challenges more intimidating.
9. The speaker has created a devious distraction to delay the discovery of their secret.
10. The speaker has hired a professional mind to stand in the corner of the room during the challenge.
11. The speaker has given the mind their deepest secret to share if the cryptographer can make the mime spill the secret.
12. The speaker has created a series of puzzles for the cryptographer to solve.
13. One of the puzzles involves a Caesar cipher, an ancient method of hiding secret messages.
14. The next puzzle involves finding invisible ink somewhere in the room.
15. The speaker has hidden a message on the ceiling corner.
16. The next clue involves writing a haiku about pizza and singing it to a pizzeria cashier.
17. The final clue involves pulling a secret from the tip of the mime's tongue.
18. The speaker's secret is hidden in the mime shoe tongue.
19. The speaker feels that the majority of the challenge was plain weird, not cryptography.
20. The speaker's deepest secret is hidden in plain sight, behind them.