*Logbook Spoilers* Secret Code -- Help Wanted!

[Rollerwings]

**As warned in the title, this contains spoilers for the Survival Logbook.**

We're trying to solve this one on the FNaF Reddit and we could really use more eyes on this! Scott has used secret codes before, and there is something hidden in the logbook.

As Freddit user MichaelO2000 noted, several pages contain the faded text "MY NAME." Each page with this text has a weird numeric clue:

Page 29 is numbered 52.
Page 32 is numbered 39.
Page 43 is numbered 15.
On page 47 the numbers 7 2 appear out-of-order on a survey question.
On page 85 the numbers 10 11 appear in red; they're part of a list.
On page 108, the time 8:11 appears on an incident report Mike is supposed to log. (As a night shift guard, though, he wouldn't have been around for an incident at 8:11 a.m. or p.m.)

So putting the numeric clues in order, we get:

52
39
15
7 2
10 11
8 11

On page 95 there is a drawing exercise involving a grid, but the grid isn't set up properly to complete the drawing. Its axes are numbered from the upper-left corner and there's a tiny A B C in that corner. This is a Polybius Square, used for cracking codes:

http://crypto.interactive-maths.com/polybius-square.html

It appears we're supposed to fill out the rest of the alphabet on the Polybius Square, left to right, and then graph the numeric clues on it. (down, across style?) Doing that yielded:

Z N E L Z N

(For the record, graphing them (across, down) yielded X Y Y X R P.)

This is where we're stumped. I ran the ZNELZN clue through the standard Geocaching Decryption Key that substitutes one letter for another and got MARYMA. If you take out the last two clues that each have two separate numbers (10 11 and 8 11) that leaves you with an actual name, MARY. I'm still thinking there's got to be more to it, though.

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There are other oddities in the book. For unknown reasons Mike has made red-ink tally marks throughout it:

On page 9 there are 5.
On page 19 there are 10.
On page 31 there are 14.
On page 36 there are 5.
On page 100 there are 5.

This adds up to 39 tallies. The pages with tallies don't appear to have anything else in common.

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On page 79 there are some coupons for FFP, on one of these Mike wrote "For real value, see page 61." Page 61 contains a "finish the comic strip" exercise. In one of the completed panels, Foxy and Freddy stand before a chalkboard on which "5+4" and "3" are written. Foxy is also reading a magazine with the word "FRIDAY" on it.

Opinions differ as to whether "9" and "3" are part of the code or just confirmation that FNaF1 happened in '93.

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Any ideas on these are more than welcome! I'd like to keep this thread clear for fellow code-crackers, so kindly keep comments and discussion on topic. Thanks!

[Doctor Script]

Originally posted by joshski1215:

I'm not completely sure but, maybe Mary is the name of Henry's daughter, the girl that posesses the Puppet.

IF that is what the code entails. But if you are using the first four letters on their own, and then substituting them out, it would literally spell anything you want (Within four letters of course). DAVE, STAN, MARK, BLUE, GOGO, whatever.

This is why we need a key to know the process is legitimate.

I was mistaken when I said "MYNAME" could be what was being solved for, it repeats the letter M. FRIDAY is likely the answer key.

Alternatively, you may have a keyword polyibus cipher on your hands; Try the code with:

F R I D A
Y B C E G
H K L M N
O P Q S T
U V W X Z

It should yield similar results, as the bottom letters are all almost in the identical spaces, but I have a weird feeling it may result in MANGLE... Jeremy was bit on a Friday, Yeah?

[Apollo]

Originally posted by Doctor Script:

Originally posted by joshski1215:

I'm not completely sure but, maybe Mary is the name of Henry's daughter, the girl that posesses the Puppet.

IF that is what the code entails. But if you are using the first four letters on their own, and then substituting them out, it would literally spell anything you want (Within four letters of course). DAVE, STAN, MARK, BLUE, GOGO, whatever.

This is why we need a key to know the process is legitimate.

I was mistaken when I said "MYNAME" could be what was being solved for, it repeats the letter M. FRIDAY is likely the answer key.

Alternatively, you may have a keyword polyibus cipher on your hands; Try the code with:

F R I D A
Y B C E G
H K L M N
O P Q S T
U V W X Z

It should yield similar results, as the bottom letters are all almost in the identical spaces, but I have a weird feeling it may result in MANGLE... Jeremy was bit on a Friday, Yeah?

OH SHI--

[Doctor Script]

Can someone transcribe the tallies as they appear on the pages in sequential order (Top to bottom, left to right).

IE,

II IIII

^This indicates 2, 5

while;

IIII II indicates 5, 2.

...

I've been in contact with a colleague (Jacob, good guy, great with ciphers) who pointed out that it would be bizarre to have a polyibus cypher with digit's higher then 5 on the input. When I asked him about the tallies, we realized that we didn't have the exact tallies of the keys. Not exactly helpful, but it would help to know what I'm working with here.


*Edit; I misspelled colleague

[Rollerwings]

Oh wow, thanks to you and your colleague for helping out on this one! ...Except most of them are in simple bunches of five.

Page 9 has 5 tallies in a bunch
Page 19 has 10 tallies in two bunches of five
Page 31 has 5 in a bunch to the left of an illustration, and on the other side, 4 singles and then 5 in a bunch
Page 36 has 5 tallies in a bunch
Page 100 has 5 tallies in a bunch

[Tiger-Bear991]

I would help if I could, but maths isn't really my strong suit.

[Doctor Script]

Math isn't my strong suit either...

9, 36, and 100 are squares of 3, 6 and 10 respectively.

it's a tough nut to crack. but I will continue to point out whatever I can.

[Rollerwings]

Just an update, it doesn't appear anyone has settled on a solution for this one yet. Anyone else from here working on it?

Request: There are some tiny black lines along the left margin of the "draw Foxy" graph. Is there any chance someone with a high-end camera with a macro feature could took a good photo of these? As you can see from my photo, it still came out too blurry but the lines are not uniform size and there appear to be some dots thrown in -- possible Morse code? This is the only page I've found hidden lines on, and this wasn't a printing error exclusive to my copy of the book.

https://imgur.com/Kls9g2v

Doctor Script, please thank your colleague Jacob for his help. I am starting to believe this isn't a Polybius Square after all, because as he said, the numbers to be run through it are too high.

The cipher/code may actually be a Vigenere Square, but running MYNAME through that with FRIDAY as a key just yields RPVDMC and Caesar Cipher failed to decode that to anything sensical.

If the answer to this one is a name, I sure hope it's a recognizable name, because some of the results by various methods yield something vaguely phonetic, but even if one of the possible results was something made-up like "Ennard," how would we know that was Scott meant? And hopefully the name isn't something non-phonetic like RWQFSFASXC, right?

Taking a crack at this has been very educational as to how many cipher methods are out there!

A few more nights working on this, though, and I'll be ready for my own Insanity Ending. Lobotomy? You barely know me!

[Gaymer]

Originally posted by breadspy:

Just an update, it doesn't appear anyone has settled on a solution for this one yet. Anyone else from here working on it?

Request: There are some tiny black lines along the left margin of the "draw Foxy" graph. Is there any chance someone with a high-end camera with a macro feature could took a good photo of these? As you can see from my photo, it still came out too blurry but the lines are not uniform size and there appear to be some dots thrown in -- possible Morse code? This is the only page I've found hidden lines on, and this wasn't a printing error exclusive to my copy of the book.

https://imgur.com/Kls9g2v

Doctor Script, please thank your colleague Jacob for his help. I am starting to believe this isn't a Polybius Square after all, because as he said, the numbers to be run through it are too high.

The cipher/code may actually be a Vigenere Square, but running MYNAME through that with FRIDAY as a key just yields RPVDMC and Caesar Cipher failed to decode that to anything sensical.

If the answer to this one is a name, I sure hope it's a recognizable name, because some of the results by various methods yield something vaguely phonetic, but even if one of the possible results was something made-up like "Ennard," how would we know that was Scott meant? And hopefully the name isn't something non-phonetic like RWQFSFASXC, right?

Taking a crack at this has been very educational as to how many cipher methods are out there!

A few more nights working on this, though, and I'll be ready for my own Insanity Ending. Lobotomy? You barely know me!

The van is waiting for you outside.

[GhostMami]

I don't know anything about ciphers but I wish you all luck and await your results

[SenshiOfSadness]

Thanks for that image breadspy, it shows exactly what I needed to see (where do the faded numbers start).
I haven't found anything yet. It's frustrating knowing that we haven't uncovered yet an interesting piece of lore.
Do you think it has just 6 letters? That might help, if it's a name we can discard some based on the number of letters (unless it's something like FritzA, Fritz Afton).

[SenshiOfSadness]

Here's my two cents for helping with the table: https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7udo63/helping_for_solving_the_logbook/

[Twitchy]

I went into thought about this, and I came up with multiple answers. The tallies add up to 39. If you take the numbers and put them together, you get 93. Now switch them around and you get 39. Another thing is that if you look at the code in the FNaF 3 minigame, 395248, two of the page numbers, 39 and 52, match up and so do the total number of tallies. Also, if you take the code and reverse it, 842593, it is purple in color (you probably knew that already). I don't think Friday has anything to do with it, but if the child's birthday party in FNaF 4 is on a Friday, then probably.

EDIT; 52 translates to EB, which stands for Eggs Benedict. On page 52, there is an arrow pointing to 52 saying "my name." Im pretty sure Eggs Benedict is Michael Afton, AKA who we play as in Sister Location because when Ennard scoops us and takes us over, we become the purple guy with purple skin because of the lack of blood. In the Springtrap cutscene, Springtrap says that his name is Michael, and if springtrap is the purple guy, then, you know, we're probably Michael. I still dont know why everyone thinks we play as William Afton. If William Afton basically created Sister Location, why would he be the technician? I'm not sure about Michael telling us his name for the number 39. 39 translates to CI, which is the start of Circus, leading to Circus Baby, and Baby is a pretty big part of the lore. I haven't found anything for the other numbers, however 10 11 stands for JK, "just kidding." I haven't found any quotes or anything leading up to that.

[Kaleidio]

Originally posted by breadspy:

**As warned in the title, this contains spoilers for the Survival Logbook.**

We're trying to solve this one on the FNaF Reddit and we could really use more eyes on this! Scott has used secret codes before, and there is something hidden in the logbook.

As Freddit user MichaelO2000 noted, several pages contain the faded text "MY NAME." Each page with this text has a weird numeric clue:

Page 29 is numbered 52.
Page 32 is numbered 39.
Page 43 is numbered 15.
On page 47 the numbers 7 2 appear out-of-order on a survey question.
On page 85 the numbers 10 11 appear in red; they're part of a list.
On page 108, the time 8:11 appears on an incident report Mike is supposed to log. (As a night shift guard, though, he wouldn't have been around for an incident at 8:11 a.m. or p.m.)

So putting the numeric clues in order, we get:

52
39
15
7 2
10 11
8 11

On page 95 there is a drawing exercise involving a grid, but the grid isn't set up properly to complete the drawing. Its axes are numbered from the upper-left corner and there's a tiny A B C in that corner. This is a Polybius Square, used for cracking codes:

http://crypto.interactive-maths.com/polybius-square.html

It appears we're supposed to fill out the rest of the alphabet on the Polybius Square, left to right, and then graph the numeric clues on it. (down, across style?) Doing that yielded:

Z N E L Z N

(For the record, graphing them (across, down) yielded X Y Y X R P.)

This is where we're stumped. I ran the ZNELZN clue through the standard Geocaching Decryption Key that substitutes one letter for another and got MARYMA. If you take out the last two clues that each have two separate numbers (10 11 and 8 11) that leaves you with an actual name, MARY. I'm still thinking there's got to be more to it, though.

Mary and Ma are really close together... maybe this is confirming Mary is Mary Afton, the mother in the Afton family?

[Gaymer]

Originally posted by GradiusLover2000:

Originally posted by breadspy:

**As warned in the title, this contains spoilers for the Survival Logbook.**

We're trying to solve this one on the FNaF Reddit and we could really use more eyes on this! Scott has used secret codes before, and there is something hidden in the logbook.

As Freddit user MichaelO2000 noted, several pages contain the faded text "MY NAME." Each page with this text has a weird numeric clue:

Page 29 is numbered 52.
Page 32 is numbered 39.
Page 43 is numbered 15.
On page 47 the numbers 7 2 appear out-of-order on a survey question.
On page 85 the numbers 10 11 appear in red; they're part of a list.
On page 108, the time 8:11 appears on an incident report Mike is supposed to log. (As a night shift guard, though, he wouldn't have been around for an incident at 8:11 a.m. or p.m.)

So putting the numeric clues in order, we get:

52
39
15
7 2
10 11
8 11

On page 95 there is a drawing exercise involving a grid, but the grid isn't set up properly to complete the drawing. Its axes are numbered from the upper-left corner and there's a tiny A B C in that corner. This is a Polybius Square, used for cracking codes:

http://crypto.interactive-maths.com/polybius-square.html

It appears we're supposed to fill out the rest of the alphabet on the Polybius Square, left to right, and then graph the numeric clues on it. (down, across style?) Doing that yielded:

Z N E L Z N

(For the record, graphing them (across, down) yielded X Y Y X R P.)

This is where we're stumped. I ran the ZNELZN clue through the standard Geocaching Decryption Key that substitutes one letter for another and got MARYMA. If you take out the last two clues that each have two separate numbers (10 11 and 8 11) that leaves you with an actual name, MARY. I'm still thinking there's got to be more to it, though.

Mary and Ma are really close together... maybe this is confirming Mary is Mary Afton, the mother in the Afton family?

Maybe it's just me but I think that maybe 10 down, 1 across has the letter 'F'

[Kaleidio]

Originally posted by GradiusLover2000:

Originally posted by breadspy:

**As warned in the title, this contains spoilers for the Survival Logbook.**

We're trying to solve this one on the FNaF Reddit and we could really use more eyes on this! Scott has used secret codes before, and there is something hidden in the logbook.

As Freddit user MichaelO2000 noted, several pages contain the faded text "MY NAME." Each page with this text has a weird numeric clue:

Page 29 is numbered 52.
Page 32 is numbered 39.
Page 43 is numbered 15.
On page 47 the numbers 7 2 appear out-of-order on a survey question.
On page 85 the numbers 10 11 appear in red; they're part of a list.
On page 108, the time 8:11 appears on an incident report Mike is supposed to log. (As a night shift guard, though, he wouldn't have been around for an incident at 8:11 a.m. or p.m.)

So putting the numeric clues in order, we get:

52
39
15
7 2
10 11
8 11

On page 95 there is a drawing exercise involving a grid, but the grid isn't set up properly to complete the drawing. Its axes are numbered from the upper-left corner and there's a tiny A B C in that corner. This is a Polybius Square, used for cracking codes:

http://crypto.interactive-maths.com/polybius-square.html

It appears we're supposed to fill out the rest of the alphabet on the Polybius Square, left to right, and then graph the numeric clues on it. (down, across style?) Doing that yielded:

Z N E L Z N

(For the record, graphing them (across, down) yielded X Y Y X R P.)

This is where we're stumped. I ran the ZNELZN clue through the standard Geocaching Decryption Key that substitutes one letter for another and got MARYMA. If you take out the last two clues that each have two separate numbers (10 11 and 8 11) that leaves you with an actual name, MARY. I'm still thinking there's got to be more to it, though.

Mary and Ma are really close together... maybe this is confirming Mary is Mary Afton, the mother in the Afton family?

What if Mary is the one talking to us because she wants you to remember everything as Michael Afton before you go into the office? This could explain why the font is even more faded than Mike's; because it is older and it faded before he started with his red ink. I still see the faded font as a really, really bright pink and faded into the background, so maybe this pen was colored red as well?