Secrets of the Club Penguin PSA Code

[@KrissKrossSauce]

me, cracking my knuckles: so this is the bloke that added those goddamn codes that i could never solve

[@ChrisHendricks]

I... uh... I gotta go... for unrelated reasons...

[@SimplyAnExistence]

Curfew I never even knew about this, I’m so happy I know now, it makes me so much more happier to know I’ve played this game.

[@CTGrell]

I had hard times with English enough and had to search every word in my giant dictionary but then I became an agent and this code just made it extra hard to do the missions XD

[@in2da205]

I remember that since i was peruvian and I only speaked spanish i never managed to solve the "key" puzzle at the time and i just kept trying randomly till I made it by accident

[@ftfriskfiretale4007]

The video: We had to make it easy for 8 yrs old to understand*

[@plainblocks2]

Me, 9 yrs old at school: *passes PSA coded message in paper to classmate* Teacher: *sees paper being passed, takes and reads* _I see you're part of the PSA in Club Penguin..._

[@willgotpower]

underrated

[@pwnchy]

PlainblockPlays: WHAT

[@dekimaros]

PlainblockPlays did the same but changed the code to a zig zag. The first letter would be going forward and after that otherwise

[@arip-offofarip-off378]

One of my teachers found that out too...i got extra hw then

[@snowpeaaaa]

I DIED HAHAHA

[@tsukkisbaka514]

What language do you speak? -English -Spanish -PSA Codes -French

[@kaylemathewcomendador7614]

Canadian?

[@ollie2111]

@@kaylemathewcomendador7614 this is still funny 😂

[@diogodavid3557]

pork of cheese

[@noobethgamingtonthethird]

⊓□⦝⦝⟃ ⅃ꓶ□⊡>v ⟃⊏ >⊓□ ⸅v⅃ ⋖□□> -⊡⟃⟃⊔｢□

[@eleli23art32]

Yes

[@ManiakPL22]

normal people at 3am: sleep me at 3am: *i need to consume Club Penguin lore*

[@SirLordSpam]

It's litterally 5am here We're never truly alone 😂

[@samurai2070]

Same.

[@legust865]

Its 5am here

[@thetyler_1015]

It’s almost 2 am lol

[@ilikecheese5832]

Bruh time zones are weird Also i couldn't agree more

[@Nicky_T]

I was absolutely obsessed with this code, and formed a 'secret agency' in grade school, and had a little fort (a crawlspace where we had storage and stuff) where we had a bunch our names and code written in stuff on the walls in sharpie marker. We sold that house like 7 years ago, and when it went back up for sale last month. I attended the open house and out of curiosity, went back into that crawlspace. Of course, that writing was still there, giving me extreme nostalgia. I also have some of that writing in our new house currently on a latter to the attic. I still have it memorized. Thank you for indirectly helping me form the best set of friends and memories I could have ever had, Chris!

[@ChrisHendricks]

Aw, sweet! That's awesome!

[@TheLegik1]

My friends and I had a "secret agency" in primary school too.

[@drakew2012]

what did it say

[@callmetyler]

DRAKESSJ257 that information is classified

[@ollie2111]

Awww :') I could never remember it and didn't really have friends. It's so awesome the PSA code was such a part of your childhood

[@jamesmcsweeney5490]

"It would delight me to know of people actually used this code to pass secret notes in class" We sure did

[@thatoneguyontheinternet9765]

I did

[@itsAstraLys]

OH WE SURE DID A LOT

[@luca2348]

I 100% did this as a kid.

[@mariaraquel2980]

I did, such good memories :)

[@lyg483]

I DID IT A TON LMAO

[@matthewbenedict3300]

"We wanted to do something memorable and easy for 8 years old" Me: *is 19 years old* Also me: *takes an hour to decipher one line of secret club penguin code*

[@stephenkaplan8345]

How many pairs of socks does G own?

[@zsin128]

4...3?!

[@empty_thesaurus]

@@stephenkaplan8345 28.

[@GumSkyloard]

@@empty_thesaurus Actually, it changed every time you played the mission, I think?

[@shivanshbhatt02]

True that

[@meanangeI]

oh my god. okay, time for a true story! it was 2009 and at the time, we had a pretty strict teacher who didn’t let us talk in class or sit next to our friends. so, my squad started learning the alphabet in a sign language. it wasn’t long before everyone else (and the teacher) caught up on it and learned it as well. so we needed a new way of communicating, something that no one else would understand. and that’s when we decided to start using the PSA code in notes! it was so fun, no one could never figure it out. we’re hispanic, so we had to use the letter “ñ” lots of times. and guess what? we made it up by adding a little straight line on top of the letter N code hahah. it was only after a year that Club Penguin became really popular around here and everyone else found our lil secret. even then, i remember one of my friends used to write in her diary about her crush in this code so her parents wouldn’t find out. being 8 at the time, this was surely a big part of our childhoods!

[@meanangeI]

awww thanks for the heart man! i wish i could still play club penguin, it was such a big part of my childhood and it means the world that u noticed me :)

[@gadzooks6873]

@@meanangeI Psst, check out CPRewritten

[@jaina655]

un genio hermano

[@VonTachyon]

@@gadzooks6873 isn't that stupid

[@mcfixer9503]

Its pigpen cipher with the X part swapped with a further #

[@arthur1102r]

"That was the director training you" omg

[@ChrisHendricks]

We put deep layers into Club Penguin sometimes... :)

[@Sukigu]

@@ChrisHendricks, please make a video about other hidden stuff like that! 😃

[@Tekilex]

@@ChrisHendricks that part blew me away!

[@JohiiD]

Wow❤

[@xYamakaze]

If a penguin called me a crab face you know I'm hitting him back with "puffle-farter"

[@ThighFish]

I figured out those decryptions too.

[@messofabeing9392]

I usedthis to talk to my friends during class. Thanks for that

[@ChrisHendricks]

I knew someone would do that! Hurray!

[@MassineMoustaphaoui]

Same

[@davi48596]

FireCraft today is 9/11

[@messofabeing9392]

FireCraft it is? I don't even know what that means but ok

[@RSpudieD]

that's fantastic!

[@trashtrash2777]

I totally used this code when I was younger. Though my teacher had a son who was fluent in the code too, and he got us in trouble :(

[@LiEnby]

wow played the game for 30 days!!

[@katiefly5901]

Snitches get stitches 👊 especially concerning CP

[@penguinmaster7]

he was a double agent!

[@adventureboy7855]

I wonder what happened

[@zacknattack]

@@katiefly5901 uhhhh might want to take a look at that last word again

[@Raiisin]

So back in September 2006, me and two of my friends played Club Penguin every day after school. We often talked about the game during class, so one day the teacher had enough and separated us into the 3 corners of the classroom. Yes, you guessed it: the only way to communicate was to throw notes at each other, when the teacher wasn't looking. And yes, we used the secret PSA code. :) Fun fact: the very first note I wrote was coded with the PSA code too, and my friends understood it without asking anything and replied the same way. So one day, the teacher spotted us throwing the notes and took them away. After class, she questioned us. We apologized and moved on. But I quickly realized she secretly wanted to solve our code so badly. So after a few days, she said she finally solved our secret message: "What is for lunch today?" But the real message was: "Just 10 more minutes left." :D We explained the code and told her where we found it. She was amazed. She checked out Club Penguin later and found the game both educational and fun. She never bothered us anymore and she became my favorite teacher. I wonder to this day what method she used to solve it so differently, haha. Oh, and I'm 23 years old now and I still perfectly know the code. :) So thank you Chris for your hard work at Club Penguin and making my childhood 1000 times better.

[@Tina535]

One question, how did you guys put '10' in the code. There are no numbers in the code, did you add another tic tac toe pattern?

[@Raiisin]

@@Tina535 Yes, my bad. we wrote "ten".

[@Tina535]

@@Raiisin oh right that makes sense, why didn't I think about spelling it out lol

[@ollie2111]

Wow what an amazing story!!

[@ollie2111]

Maybe she just made a random guess about it being a lunch question 😆

[@movagalbastomp]

I litteraly translated the texts at 4:04, it said: "CRAB-FACCE!!" "PUFFLE-FARTER!!"

[@victorplayz_]

Lol

[@MegaDude10]

We should use these as actual "swears" in legacy servers as a joke.

[@Grammarhead]

Woah, Aunt Arctic was intended to be the Director from the beginning? Even if it wasn't set in stone, that's so cool! I always assumed it was something that began to take shape with fan theories.

[@Sukigu]

I came here just to comment this! I always thought Aunt Arctic being the director was something added much later just to "prove" the fan theories. I remember reading about them since pretty much ever, and by the time the reveal was made I didn't believe at all that it'd been planned all along! At least it seems like the sunglasses easter egg *was* in fact already there before the PSA was created (I joined in April 2007 but at that time the PSA already existed, so I never knew for sure).

[@ChrisHendricks]

I just want to say how awesome the comments for this video have been. The stories you have been telling have been the gift that keeps on giving. It's been heartwarming and hilarious. Thank you so much everyone!

[@Derfy_Derf]

How has it taken me this many years to realise that Aunt Arctic is a play on words of Antarctic

[@ollie2111]

The true conspiracy theory 🐧

[@ChrisSucks]

damn

[@GumSkyloard]

.. I'm slow.

[@theonebman7581]

I remember this was one of the questions asked on the newspaper once Like... 2009-2010 maybe? "Where does your name come from? Oh it's a play on words as it sounds like Antarctic" Or something like that It's the one Q&A I actually remember

[@christopherkendrick1582]

I ran secret agencies as a kid and actually made my own handbook, missions, we uncovered a thief once! someone stole a glue stick and we got evidence and everything. it was so much fun and my best friend and I were the director and we actually had recruits.

[@themelbornememer9575]

that sounds so cool! Wish I got to do that as a kid!!!!!!

[@fallingcrane1986]

Hearing the reason why numbers were closed finally gives me a sense of closure and I commend the CP staff for helping kids learn to keep their privacy

[@zazaasas311]

its kinda logical

[@bakachiki491]

People used to throw snowballs to reveal their age lol

[@Kpba32]

@@bakachiki491 early 2000s problems require early 2000s solutions

[@rainlion2915]

@@Kpba32 LOL

[@Alicapy]

@@bakachiki491 lmao yeah I remember that

[@dragonick2947]

"What do I get for being a secret agent?" "You get access to a secret room!" "How big is the room?" "Only a few metres squared." "Nevermind..." "But it has a Mancala table!" "Okay, I'm sold."

[@scootergrant8683]

THATS WHAT IT WAS CALLED?!

[@CathodeRayKobold]

"The frogurt is also cursed." "That's bad." "But you get your choice of topping!" "That's good!"

[@WASDRhombus]

“Want To Play Mancala?” “Yes.”

[@Luke--]

The code is simply speaking Canadian.

[@messofabeing9392]

I understood that reference!

[@ollie2111]

🤭😂 hahahahahaha

[@papyrussemi2848]

can confirm

[@zakkthehack8966]

So thats why most of my friends cant read it :/

[@syrupleaf127]

am canadian here

[@jaydon.2833]

No one: Not a single soul: Chris: Fine, I'll do it myself.

[@xXLanyuzAnlunXx]

haha

[@xXLanyuzAnlunXx]

omg you're so funny dude

[@xXLanyuzAnlunXx]

such a good comment xD

[@xXLanyuzAnlunXx]

ikr funny and original

[@xXLanyuzAnlunXx]

yeah dude i like the note a ssingle sol patrt

[@molotera8789]

Club penguin: "we didnt want to use the pigpen cipher because it was used by the Freemasons and we didnt want people to start linking Club penguin to conspiracy theories" Neopets: *owned by scientologists at some point*

[@Zixea_a]

WHAT

[@r3n837]

YUP LMAO

[@jadethenidoran]

@@Zixea_a I think Izzyzzz' video on Neopets explains it

[@TuxerTuxar]

Wait which company was it? Viacom? Jumpstart?

[@hunterlawrence3573]

When I was a kid I thought making the Director a sweet old lady was so clever because no one would guess that. But I'd always thought you created a Nick Fury-type director character and then made Aunt Artic to be a secret identity. I never imagined you created Aunt Arctic first AND THEN decided she should be the PSA Director! You guys did such a great job with the PSA/EPF. I remember when I completed Operation Blackout and the cut scene revealed the Director's identity. I felt like I'd been trusted with extremely important confidential knowledge. Aunt Arctic asks the player to keep her secret, and I did. I never told anyone the whole time I played the game, nor did I ever see anyone else doing it. Looking back on it, when Operation Blackout launched you guys must've been really nervous kids would go into crowded rooms and ruin the surprise for everyone else by saying "Aunt Arctic is the Director" through the chat. But thankfully, I don't remember that happening

[@ChrisHendricks]

I've never connected Aunt Arctic with Nick Fury before, but yeah, it kinda fits!

[@notaseat5934]

To answer your question at the end, no. But a while back on a school trip, the coach had a fun pattern on the seats that looked oddly like the cp code. So I took it upon myself to translate the coach seat, like the young little detective and theorist I was when I was a kid, thought I was caught in a real life PSA mission and I was going to be the one to save us Turned out that the seat just had a bunch of random gobbledegook and my lil heart was shattered. But thought it was a good story so here it is 😂

[@morgankasper5227]

did you save them?

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Most adorable thing I've ever heard.

[@mattboss1362]

A friend in my class asked the teacher if he could write his essay in this language. They said no.

[@mychemicalmods5412]

:(

[@Starlightnova111]

:(

[@beebosrandomchannel1463]

why?

[@theonebman7581]

Professor Killjoy >:/

[@TiStardust]

As someone who has been a part of the PSA since around 2009, who got to experience the transitional periods of the PSA to EPF, and the EPF’s various transformations, this is cool. Very cool. When I became an agent, I treated it like an honor. I was 8 at the time, so I took my job very seriously. I even got both DS tie-in games that introduced the EPF earlier than their debut on the main site. I remember when PH was just a pink penguin with a generic hat, as opposed to the cool design she got in later incarnations. Being a part of the agency actually gave me a sense of responsibility and community like never before. It contributed a lot to my childhood, and even today I still appreciate the lore and development that went into the whole thing. Thanks to you and the whole CP team for making it possible! - Waddle On

[@silvaticsword82]

You had a pretty similar experience as mine

[@mysticwinds4667]

When you said “Freemasons”, I got super happy because my dad told me grandfather was in the Freemasons. I learned about it from my dad on a trip to Washington DC. Didn’t think I’d think about that story again today.

[@inspectorjavert9868]

@Tiffany Video r/puffle-farter

[@hopesmusicvids]

true story, me and my childhood friend used to hang out and, sometimes, as we were leaving, one would hand the other a note with the club penguin code on it. We'd always spend forever translating, and it'd always say something like "you're smelly" or "bet this took you forever to translate". We'd go home and, about an hour later, the landline would ring and he'd tell me if he cracked my message, or vice versa

[@entropicvoxels]

I remember that I used to have a conspiracy theory that the director was working for Herbert, and whenever the director did something unusual, I would think: "AHA! This proves that I'm right!" I was so dissapointed when Operation Blackout revealed that it was Aunt Arctic the whole time.

[@ChrisHendricks]

Honestly... that would have been an awesome way to do it, too.

[@belle208]

I looove the fact that a whole big operation led to the big reveal. when i tell you i was shocked it was her 😂 but it was like it makes so much sense!! but i had a similar conspiracy too. I was suspicious 👀

[@davifernandopereiraborges5168]

@@ChrisHendricks theres other theory that gary is a double agent

[@emargaux]

I had a really weird theory that Rookie was Aunt Arctic and Gary's son

[@ariebirb]

As a kid my friends and I actually did memorize the code and used it regularly. It actually got me into ciphers and codes which is a big deal because I’m planning to go to college next year for cyber security and linguistics

[@itsAstraLys]

OMG you are a step ahead of me for liking ciphers

[@Dan-ih6ns]

“What’s he’s saying?” “He’s- he’s talking in the PSA code!” “No!”

[@messofabeing9392]

Also... CRAB FACE and PUFFLE FARTER. I'm totally using those in the future.

[@ChrisHendricks]

YAY!

[@Jawaddles]

@@ChrisHendricks I can't believe either of you would use such language.

[@min432g]

@@Jawaddles I hope youre joking

[@CTGrell]

If these won't become a trend I will be disappointed

[@messofabeing9392]

Grell C.T. me too

[@MegaSmartalek]

I used this code to remember my some of my bank account passwords. Should I be saying this?

[@jaxoncarter2electricboogal921]

@s!lvagunner thanks fake siivagunner

[@LiEnby]

wow u must have a really insecure password since the code only encodes letters :D

[@zsin128]

i made psa secret code font on font maker on win10. now i can write secretly

[@ChrisHendricks]

I didn't mention it in the video, but that was another advantage of the PSA code. We could just use a font to put things in code.

[@zsin128]

cool i never knew that

[@Willardwood-p]

Give us the font

[@cheafmin1399]

Dude give us the font, I need to fuck with my brother

[@zsin128]

Cheaf Min ok ill send link in monday

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

I will never forget the PSA missions, they were some of the best online games I ever played. They were one of the few examples of story driven experiences in Club Penguin. Those games were so good that they could have been packaged and sold as actual video games but me and countless other players got to experience them for free which was so awesome!

[@LuckIsImpossible]

i assume that mission experience helped you out in the clone wars obi wan

[@hannah42069]

Please do a video on card-jitsu! That was one of my favourite parts of Club Penguin :D

[@ChrisHendricks]

Some day!

[@invisibleman6313]

Chris Hendricks Card jitsu shadow

[@galrosenman317]

Yugi3n3 yesssss

[@bolson42]

Ikr, whenever I logged into club penguin that’s the first thing I would play

[@lilith8978]

Probaly the best

[@kiyahall3031]

I was an avid Club Penguin fan for YEARS, I played it everyday, did the PSA missions, and was overall obsessed with it. My aunt's birthday and christmas gifts to me each year were renewals on my membership. It had such a positive impact on my life, so I just wanted to say thank you for working on it and implementing my favorite part of the website :)

[@Mini_Pixels]

I clearly remember using it as a funny thing to do with my best friend who also liked the PSA codes in Club penguins, so I made two papers with the codes for me and him and wanted to plan it at the end of the period at school and oh boy at the last 10 minutes, the teacher noticed us passing notes and said “why are you passing notes to each other and what does it say?” I wanted to laugh so hard when she said what the codes meant and my friend said that “we are just doing something.” The teacher was staring at the codes for like 3 seconds and moved us away together so we don’t pass out notes again. Ok not gonna lie but that was worth it and can’t believe that I did that. I hope you enjoyed this Chris! :)

[@hyperventalated]

2:17 I realize this video is about the code, but I highly respect and appreciate that you put these pages into the book telling young players what they should be looking to report, which both informs them of these dangers and gives them the incentive to report by "acting like a secret agent." It almost gamifies (in a good way) internet safety at a basic level and adds a "cool factor" to behaving in a respectful manner. I say this as a young kid who played back then and took these things to heart as if it were a mission being given to me. Good thinking!

[@ChrisHendricks]

Not everyone respected it that way, so it's always nice to hear that some players did. Thank you!

[@jadoo258]

Every conspiracy theory is false ...or is that just what “they” want you to think? 12:31

[@emmytweetie2177]

Ur comment deserves to be at the top.

[@rustydomino694]

this needs to be pinned

[@Alicapy]

yayayay

[@captaing7709]

When the director was finally revealed in Blackout Operation, it was one of the best moments in my life sjksdjks

[@RockhopperRio]

For anyone wondering the secret code at the end, it says... Every conspiracy theory is false ...or is that just what “they” want you to think?

[@armineow]

Bruh don't talk about "them" or the Clinton foundation is going to go after you!

[@holapete2682]

@@armineow "Don't talk about them" *_Proceeds to talk about them_*

[@FelipejoLovesCapybaras]

oh dang i thought nobody said it yet well i didnt look hard enough

[@TheInkTank]

Loving your videos. They are edited so well, too, like having all of your games stacking up at 2:42 - neat touch!

[@ChrisHendricks]

Thank you! I don't get to play those games very often, but I still enjoy them!

[@Zack-ds9rs]

Solving the code was so easy for me, since I had a PSA handbook that I read religiously

[@AmiiboDoctor]

I just want to say. I KNEW Aunt Arctic was the Director, and sent a message about it probably five years before Operation: Blackout. Man, you and I were on the same wavelength, at least insofar as we could be. Nobody has ever believed me that I predicted it.

[@silvaticsword82]

I predicted it too there we're too many hints but My friends belived i was crazy or something

[@TheKrazyStew]

I used to use this code all the time!! It eventually inspired me to go and make an alphabet of my own, and now I'm working on creating a whole new language! Thank you, Chris, for all the memories and the inspiration. I didn't know Aunt Arctic was planned to be the Director from the beginning - that eventually being revealed in the game was mind-blowing!

[@virtual__]

I own Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force for the Nintendo DS. This game was ALL about being a secret agent, and I have SO much play time on it. Being a secret agent was one of my favorite things to do on CP. Thank you for creating such fond memories for me 🥰

[@mr.shplorb662]

please do not abrevieate club pengiun

[@Quinhala11]

4:03 *Penguin 1 (who i named Dora):* Crabface!! *Penguin 2 (who i named Don):* Puffle farter!!

[@Quinhala11]

I also made a backstory for them because i'm bored. *Dora Penguington* and "Don Penguington* are twins who were raised by their grandparents, their parents disappeared, reasons still -clasified- unknown. Dora is the oldest and most responsible, she hates to gain things "for doing nothing", she always works hard for everything she has/wants. Don is the youngest and most "lucky" sibling. He doesn't like to work at all, almost everything (If not everything) he has was just given to him because, for some reason, he has a supernatural amount of luck. Even tho they're very different, the Penguington twins have a really close relationship. Eventually, they both grew up to be secret agents, with one of them becoming a double agent.. In the photo (took by their aunt Maria) showed above, they were 8 y/o, fighting because Dora tought Don stole her puffle's collar, when in reality, the collar magically flied to Don's backpack.

[@emmytweetie2177]

@@Quinhala11 woah

[@ollie2111]

@@Quinhala11 well that was fun

[@TheONLYFeli0]

Matias Uni yes.

[@astronights]

Absolute madlads.

[@scrambled5948]

You revealing that Aunt Arctic was the director the whole time would've blown my 8 year old mind

[@chickpea]

As someone who grew up on club penguin, I can confirm that I indeed used the CP secret language to pass notes to my best friend! Sadly I don't recall what we were saying to each other, but I might have some of the messages around still, since they were passed through a notebook. If I ever find that said notebook I know I will have a lot of fun decoding what we were saying in math class though. Cheers from Portugal!

[@gregourious9190]

11:45 dude, thank you, because of that code i got obsessed with codes.

[@lucmik7859]

Everybody gangsta till the foreign kid starts speaking PSA code

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

This is the channel I’ve needed for the past decade, but never knew.

[@Blue21102]

The PSA secret code was such a valuable component in CP history and made the PSA missions so much more interesting. I love how Aunt Arctic was just meant to be the Director. I didn't realise the sunglasses secret in the newspaper was initially unattached to her being the Director, but that makes it even cooler. Thanks a lot for sharing, Chris! I hope that one day we will gain some insight into the PSA missions and the stories behind them. That would be awesome!

[@rat3866]

The timing of this was so ironic for me. I'm in 8th grade (beginning of school year) and about a few weeks ago me and my friends decided to make the code a thing again outside of club penguin. I used it in 5th grade, forgot about it, and then a new student came in with the code all over his arm and I instantly knew it was club penguin. And aparently I was the only one who even guessed is how big of a CP fan I was. In fact, I still occasionally hop on CPR for the fun of it. Thank you so much for the code. Literally the factor that made me know I'd instantly get along with the new kid, what made us make our group. Granted, we do call it a cult.. just because it's better when getting reactions from others, but seriously club penguin always has been and will be the bomb.

[@immikeeee]

I'm now 19, 9 years ago me and most of my friends discovered Club Penguin, provoquing a trend in school. Our class was at the center of it. We knew everything about CP til the point of, yes, we started **passing messages with the PSA code** during classes, outside classes, even trying to create new codes inspired on the CP one. I wish i had kept them. We actually created a secret agency, me and 5 more friends. I'm actually proud of it tbh. We printed our club penguins cards, platificated them, created some agency cards with our penguins photo on it and used only our code (and sometime the PSA code). It was all inspired on Club Penguin. I remember those days as the best of my childhood. I can't thank u enough for making it.

[@honeycombc]

So you’re the man behind my childhood... Thank you, sincerely. You made me genuinely happy with your work on this game. I truly appreciate you. (I pretty much know the code off by heart, I’m a little rusty but I’m pretty good)

[@PKpaula425]

Man! The memories here! I really did use the CP PSA code to write messages back and forth to my older sister, who i played CP with all the time. We used to bond playing it and Webkinz together! We never did use it to pass notes in school because she was 4 grades above me, but when we were at home we would write each other random codes like "I was here" or "Greetings earthlings" and stuff like that. I was terrible at remembering the code itself so i would ACTUALLY log on to the site, go to the HQ, enter a mission, and use the decoder to read what it said. Also. I never played every PSA mission as a kid because i stopped playing around 2009, but Aunt Arctic being the secret undercover commissioner BLEW MY MIND! Now i really do feel like a penguin conspiracy theorist.

[@anshsoniYT]

If I remember correctly I learned how to decode the messages because I saw the 3 tick tack toe grids scribbled in my sister's note book. I never googled it, because I didn't even think I could or even needed to. It was like this secret piece of knowledge my sister passed down to me.

[@shadepizza4217]

You should have used the heffley-jefferson cypher: yourpa dadpa smellspa likepa a womanpa

[@miken1879]

Underrated comment

[@Slurpee_Burger]

Thatpa madepa mepa laughpa ... Onepa problempa... “F***pa youpa” wouldpa bepa apa popularpa sayingpa onpa clubpa penguinpa

[@shprite781]

Lmao

[@ruler_of_everything]

yeah but people would keep saying "crabfacepa!" "puffle-farterpa!"

[@gilkot4633]

What about the ferb language? You take the first letter of the word, put it at the end, and add 'erb' to it. So Club Penguin would be lubCerb enguinPerb.

[@jerichotaetz]

My friend and I had this thing totally memorized. We had it so down that we could glance at a note passed in class and know exactly what it said

[@AQSWDEFRTHYJUKILO]

These videos are SO fascinating. Club Penguin was such a huge part of my childhood so much so that I literally play cprewritten every once and a while for the nostalgia. I’m 19 now and still have as much love for this game as I did when I was 9! It must be neat seeing younger players now older such as the rewritten staff keeping the game alive and nearly identical to how it was 2007-2012. CP also taught me how to type really fast without looking at the keyboard ahahaha

[@ollie2111]

Me too I feel the same. Although I play CpOnline because I got stuck out of my CPR account with the constant needing to send an email after not using the account for too long and support won't see my messages 😔

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

I'm exactly the same. I'm in College now, but I still pop up on Rewritten every now and then to take part in events, support the community and be a damn good Agent!

[@AQSWDEFRTHYJUKILO]

Gabrielle Yeah they’re really bad with getting back to emails but I still find rewritten a million times better than Online. Rewritten is just so much more authentic to me with the weekly newspapers and older items

[@ollie2111]

@@AQSWDEFRTHYJUKILO sorry for being snappy lol, I'm just really mad I can't log into my account because of error and they won't get back to me on it.

[@Vandarte_translator]

Mechanography, nice.

[@Shan.1470]

I remember when Aunt Arctic was revealed as the director. My ten-year-old mind was BLOWN!!

[@DenisGurArie]

Great video as always! When the director's secret identity was reveled, I always wondered if you guys planned it from the start or not, and I assumed you didn't. Even prior to the reveal many penguins theorized it was Aunt Arctic with the shady glasses and the fact some secret messages were hidden in the newspaper sometimes, so I always thought it was just fan service. It's amazing to me that you guys kept this lore piece in absolute secret, without dropping any clues or nodes, for 6 full years!! I did pass notes with the Tic Tac Toe code in class, but only in middle school/highschool with other Cp fans as a nostalgic manner. I still think it's a well made code for the same reasons you mentioned in the video! One last thing - could you maybe talk in a future video about the grey shack at the corner of the ski hill? Lance said in a stream that you wanted it to be like a irl-connected hub where you could ask the mods stuff or something, do you know anything else about it?

[@dragonick2947]

A penguin called Splosh Jnr made a blog post theorising about it. Here it is: sploshjnr.home.blog/2019/11/10/lights-in-the-lodge/

[@fdyer]

So I found this video on the 19th Sept. 2019 and I texted my best friend that I used to play Club Penguin with. I said "Hey, did you ever struggle to try to decode stuff in club penguin?" or something like that. She was like "Yeah, that code was the death of me". We decided we would finally learn the code so we could use it in real life. Almost 2 days later, we are not sending each other texts on WhatsApp but pictures of code that we have written containing our messages. Thank you for sprucing up my notifications Mr. Hendricks

[@irisflorzinhairis]

2:33 me getting the notification for this video

[@rainbowgamers356]

i remember being in class and seeing these notes with the symbols on them i didn't play club penguin until my friend said you gotta play club penguin to understand and thats when my childhood became the best days ever

[@katiewightman7103]

I tried to send a note to my friend in class using the code when I was in primary 4 but they never understood it and when I told them it was from club penguin their response was “Oh yeah, sorry I only play Moshi Monsters”

[@alexthehedgehog8982]

F

[@ruler_of_everything]

kill him/her

[@dragonick2947]

:(

[@oswinaltava]

I was always obsessed with Club Penguin, some friends from school introduced me to it when I was eight or nine when I saw them writing notes in the code, eventually my sister and I started writing notes at home in the code too, it always had a special place in my heart and the entire mystery of who the Director was and the revelation of Aunt Artic blew my mind as a I grew up, I dreamed of working at Club Penguin when I was younger so it's really awesome and intriguing to hear these behind the scenes stories about it now!

[@diegouveuve2796]

honestly im really thankful for you you are my whole childhood :)

[@magicannon6285]

I remember specifically having an obsession with the PSA, and also the Jetpack mission. I used to pass notes with my friends telling them to meet me at the trees at breaktimes so we could go on secret missions where we spied on the other kids (or where we did the card karate and learnt the powers of the gem in the middle), and whenever we had a creative writing task in class, I'd write about myself as a secret agent. I'd sign my name after these with the code. I was ecstatic when the teachers didn't understand it.

[@VioletOrbWeaver]

it’s very satisfying to know that aunt arctic was always planned as the director. i remember all the theories as a kid, and when it was confirmed, i was left wondering if it was planned all along or just the developers doing it as a nod to all the theories going around. i’m really glad to know it was the former, and people just happened to pick up on it!

[@Emeowy]

Oh my lord ive been in club penguin since original room already whaaat

[@duncanthedonut2325]

I use leave notes using this format all the time in class. I’d pass them around, I’d leave them hidden at school then leave clues to their locations. I would even write them in random obscure places I’d visit around America on vacations. However, I used the original code of two #’s and two x’s. Still, this code from the game would always be on my mind when doing this. I would always sign the messages with a ※ symbol. Even today in college, I still occasionally leave the messages on the white boards for people to decode (with the decoder drawn) and put the ※ at the bottom. Thank you for being such a big part of my childhood!!

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

Please post it online but put it somewhere anonymous. Pls.

[@ElectricFury]

I had to use this code in an escape room yesterday. I solved it about 30 minutes earlier than we were supposed to because I recognised it as the Club Penguin PSA Code within the first 5 minutes of being in the room, rather than waiting for the key to reading code being given to us. The guy working at the room used the hint board to call me a "man of culture" when I said "guys it's not pigpen, it's the Club Penguin code!!".

[@ChrisHendricks]

No. Way. That is the awesomest thing. I am so happy about that! Tell the escape room guy I said hi!

[@buster5661]

It's pengpen

[@FreedSeed]

After you mentioned the Illuminati I couldn't stop laughing. Thanks for sharing the story behind this code! My heart fills with joy knowing how much love and care you put into the content of the Club Penguin world over the years! I really don't see a lot of that in modern games now. :D I really appreciate you making these behind the scenes related Club Penguin videos for us! it's really cool from an outsider's perspective.

[@balancewod1864]

The secret missions and secret code aspect was one of my favorite parts of the game so it's nice seeing how its made in the first place.

[@Michael-vm1uv]

I became a Club Penguin fanatic learning the code by heart and doing all the missions when they came out following since the empty room opened. My friends never learned it so I was using it by myself but it got me into learning some ciphers. So in that respect, I didn't get to use it in notes. I did, on the other hand, try to take Card Jitsu out into the real world, drawing my own cards and creating starter and booster packs for my friends. That was so many years ago. Club Penguin was a big part of my life back then.

[@ollie2111]

💜💜 Club Penguin was like the main source of happiness in my childhood When life sucked at least I could waddle around🐧

[@SadhuDPDR]

this guy is incredibly talented. He's such a great composer, artist, animator... I mean you seriously do a lot of stuff I want to be like you

[@Yamin4Studios]

I was homeschooled but I always loved the psa code so I used it to keep secret messages from my siblings. I can't remember any specific examples but I know it happened. Also it's mad cool to learn the history behind one of my favorite small details of the game that built my childhood!

[@hectorcanales133]

I love the concept of secret codes and languages and it all started thanks to you! I’m glad to have read others’ comments about their experiences with the code and I love watching your content about the game. Keep up the good work and thank you for helping us remember part of our childhood 😎

[@lucyskyler21]

I just played the elite force game for the first time so I actually had quite a few questions about the code, thanks for answering them! I always loved the missions, they really did do exactly what you and the team wanted in regards to adding depth and secrets to the world, and I kind of wish we'd gotten more of them. It is absolutely hilarious that you considered a code associated with the Freemasons, you're completely right that the Internet would have had a field day with it. Also loved hearing the stuff about Aunt Arctic. I wasn't there for the official reveal, but I remember watching youtube videos about Club Penguin secrets/theories as a kid and discovering the newspaper trick for the first time. Would love it if you did a video about Halloween, especially the music. I know you didn't the Haunted Disco music, but I still love that song would be cool if you talked about it a bit, and/or how the music for the parties changed over the years. Thanks for all your videos, I really enjoy them!

[@ollie2111]

Halloween parties :')

[@ollie2111]

I used to read it as "Etile" instead of elite and when I was corrected I still thought "etile" sounded better and Elite didn't make sense 😄

[@katie-allen]

My sister and I were inspired by the club penguin code to make up our own secret code! Looking back on it, it was basically just a copy of your code with a few more squiggly lines and switches out the X’s and O’s for different shapes, and it definitely wouldn’t have been able to come together without the simple and well-planned structure of yours. Thanks so much for inspiring us and giving us a fun way to communicate and write it our journals as kids!!

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Who else remembers when the PSA Base was just a blackboard and a Manacala table? I know it's in the video, but who remembers BEING there?

[@dragonick2947]

The door doesn't even have a handle! How did you guys get out of it?

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

@@dragonick2947 Secret agent tech my friend. Classified information, I'm afraid.

[@SharkieTheDork]

I never really wrote notes in the code, but I do strongly remember writing down the key in a notebook I had. I think I wanted to have my own key to use when I replayed missions because I thoight it felt cool to reference something tangible instead of the guide on the screen! I was pretty giddy when Aunt Arctic was revealed as the Director, but at that point I hadn't been playing for years. I'm delighted to hear that was the plan since the PSA's inception. Learning about how you guys did things internally is so awesome, Club Penguin was a giant part of my childhood and I don't think I could ever thank you and everyone else who worked on it enough for giving me so much joy 💜

[@TheGameBoyss]

for the swearing thing at 4:02 The blue penguin says: "CRABFACE!!" And the orange penguin says: "PUFFLE-FARTER!!"

[@zacharydavies7031]

TheGame Boys How do you know? Oh...you just shift every letter 1 to the left

[@muriax]

When I was younger I used to use the secret code to send my sister messages. This this story blew my mind because I completely forgot about it.

[@ExTess]

I still remember how the code works without even thinking about it. I used to write it in my journals to read to myself in class and used it to talk to my friends and brothers when I didn't want others to find anything out. Of course, I was usually the only one who could read it, but there were times when I was able to keep codes to myself for important reasons (like passwords and telling my brothers jokes pre-meme era). It's a great idea to this day, and I'm happily surprised that you basically invented the code.

[@Bellbugsie]

I was in the scouts for a brief moment of my life, but we used this code specifically and the scout leaders kept talking about club penguin, it was very funny

[@lincheers8818]

When was just a little girl I asked my father how to solve this code and he brought me his book of francmason (idk how to say it in English) he told me it was based in the code of the book "it quite different but it works" then he helped me finding the diferentes and using the code you created ; and now hearing you confirmed that theory of mine, I ran to my dad crying he was right "after all these years we were right". I remember I used the code to comunicate with him and my uncle when we talked about serious issues till now a days. Thanks to you, I formed a strong bond with them :)

[@oliviatheunknown]

I can't figure that out I don't speak ASCII

[@dragonick2947]

If you're going to put a code at the bottom, you could at least try to approximate PSA code.

[@lincheers8818]

@@dragonick2947 jajaja it used to work, i deleted it cause now is useless

[@ImTwoPie]

Dude, back in first grade my friends and I formed a three musketeers on Club Penguin together, we'd pass notes during lunch while eating so other kids would wonder why we were being so mysterious, we'd purposefully pass notes in class whenever we *knew* our teacher was looking just to see her try to read it. We were total jerks, but we really ran with the PSA code, and although one has split from the trio, the remaining two of us are still best friends, now both 18 and just starting college this school year. I've sometimes thought about sending him a whole letter in PSA just to see how he'd respond! For real though, thank you for this code, and for everything you did for Club Penguin. My first through third years in elementary wouldn't be nearly as character-defining as they were for me without yours and the Club Penguin team's contributions

[@lindabork6542]

I passed notes to my friends in primary school using these codes, we had the cipher etched onto the table and whenever the teacher intercepted our *extremely important* messages they'd get really confused but still tell us off

[@andrewprahst]

Well I was homeschooled so I didn't have class to pass notes around in, but I remember leaving notes outside the my siblings doors in the code so my parents couldn't read it. I also had memorized the characters in my name so I could cryptically make my existance known in random places.

[@annabellewannabelle]

Nooo don’t tell this I use this as a secret code with my friends I actually pass notes using thissss I have multiple things written on my walls with this, although I changed the 27th character to an exclamation mark bc I didn’t know what it was

[@MasacoMike]

That was the Director's signature

[@annabellewannabelle]

MasacoMike Yeah, I know now

[@padfrog193]

27 as a whitespace character would actually be a good way to make it a little more difficult, and i may borrow psa code with that as an addition to use in TTRPGs to add secret code to the game.

[@jesslamovsek1304]

i LOVED your code system! so much that elementary school me thought she was so clever for figuring out the tic tac toe pattern and ended up memorizing it. attempting to teach my friends in school was a little harder. i needed to give them their own cheat sheet. but i really did use this code so much. i even did an escape room last year that used the pig pen cipher and because i memorized the PSA code, i used that to decipher the codes on the wall in record time. thanks for indirectly making me look like a genius in those moments~

[@nyuppo]

Haha I used it all the time with my friends! I think I was more just proud that I knew how to use a secret code than actually wanted to send secret messages, but I still used it all the time just as a cool way to write stuff. Every video you make brings back great memories, thank you for sharing!

[@michellemunevar4955]

I didn't use the exact same alphabet because I thought my friend and I wouldn't be the only ones who could read it, so based on the one you made for Club Penguin, I created a new one that only we could read. In fact, we used it for almost two years and no one beside us ever get to understood it, but many of my friends from that time also started using it. That was like 10 years ago

[@lukelakatos6216]

I specifically remember passing secret agent code notes with my friends in 2nd grade

[@ollie2111]

This is probably my favorite story. I love coming back to listen to it.