The Unbreakable Kryptos Code

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[Chapters]
00:00 Intro
02:30 The Vigenère Table
05:45 Partial Decipherment of Kryptos
07:46 Identifying Ciphers Within the Code
11:09 Breaking K2
15:21 Breaking K3 and K1
17:49 The K1-K3 Plaintext
24:02 The Mystery of K4
27:21 The Intended Solutions
36:50 The IDBYROWS Mishap
39:56 The K4 Clues
41:44 Hypothetical Solutions to K4
45:45 Outro

[@LEMMiNO]

[Credits, References, and More] www.lemmi.no/p/the-unbreakable-kryptos-code

[@MrCommentGod]

You just love to see it *215 days of waiting has 100% been worth it*

[@LOL_MANN]

WE EATING GOOD WITH THIS ONE

[@doorkarma1288]

Thank you sir

[@LOL_MANN]

🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣WE EATING GOOD WITH THIS ONE‼🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ARipeBanana]

Thanks for making awesome content my guy

[@mxtorres30]

Brothers, we have been reunited once again.

[@cmdrHeliaxx]

o7

[@MinecrafAssassin]

o7

[@MrCommentGod]

Quality over quantity

[@optimize0]

Indeed. o7

[@jaymxu]

About time, this one took super long.

[@HistoryDose]

Lemmino just makes consistent “drop everything and watch this now” videos

[@MrCommentGod]

This video is definitely gonna get over 10 million views

[@TheNamesFathom]

exactly dude, guess I’m not doing homework for the next 47 minutes

[@NotTheRambo]

​@@TheNamesFathomAgent 47

[@muhammedaasil969]

​@@NotTheRambo The star trek number...

[@lukemimnagh2594]

Bruh, literally. I was in the middle of another video essay and then I saw this, I clicked immediately

[@jacobstoner8468]

Me: “What’s the WI-FI password?” Friend: “It’s on the back of the router” The back of the router:

[@MilkisEPIC]

No replies?

[@SpearFisher85]

*MEOW* (It's just a cat with an antenna in its butt)

[@DreamcastFarm]

​@@SpearFisher85 HUH?

[@Kestie-vp3rv]

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[@DaleDillard-dn4mz]

44 acck 34

[@sydssolanumsamsys]

the creator getting impatient and giving huge clues to k4 is so relateable. what a normal guy

[@nibras69]

I play VALORANT 🗿

[@thecosmicrae]

i have your pfp as my phone wallpaper lol. what a coincidence

[@zingyoak3917]

""impatient" he waited 30 years bro.

[@sydssolanumsamsys]

@@zingyoak3917 who cares? go away.

[@sydssolanumsamsys]

@@thecosmicrae

[@DanielBrown]

Yeah my buddy Eric solved it already but he doesn't “want to brag about it” he's a very humble and chill guy

[@justinallen5215]

“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.” Probably

[@KarelPletsStriker]

Is his surname Fermat perhaps?

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I solved but then I accidentally threw away the Post-It Note where I wrote the solution. I forgot it now.

[@beesinpyjamas9617]

my girlfriend solved it but she goes to another school you woudln't know her

[@morganmccool6026]

Nah, my cousins girlfriend's college roommate said that she solved it and gave your friend Eric a fake solution because he wouldn't stop asking her about it

[@Gorevet]

K4 says “If you enjoyed my puzzle, like and subscribe”

[@efudesu9267]

subscriberlinclock

[@Rollerbear712]

@efudesu9267 to the east of the subscribe button is the like button and to the northeast of the video is where the channel pop up at the end of the video on the video player is

[@PhillyCh3zSt3ak]

I swear, if it's the URL for rick rolling I'll laugh my ass off.

[@aserta]

"and don't forget to click the bell icon notification"

[@darktheories1758]

I was thinking more like "I am the zodiac"

[@_hank9508]

I am a little stunned that none of the solutions have anything to do with the fact that the puzzle is made of holes in a sheet of metal that will cast the letters on the floor infront of the sculpture which would reverse the rows as the bottom rows would now appear at the top in the shadow of the scroll. Sanborn has been talking about light and shadow in K1 and used such language when commenting about the puzzle as a whole. He specifically said that there are encoding systems that use light and shadow and that these systems are the ones he is most interested in. Yet, none of the solution paths have anything to do with this unique property of the puzzle.

[@i1a2159]

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe it has been tried though, and he just didn't mention it in this video

[@leenaymarshall6594]

I thought the same honestly. I wonder if this is actually the solution to the puzzle?

[@kevindharmawan3697]

Maybe that was how you obtain these clues? But not a lot of manpower went into it and it's not like we can just camp in CIA grounds either.

[@AGoodLookingMushroom]

@@kevindharmawan3697 you can always recreate the model in blender and shine some light onto it yourself

[@Adam-pv8je]

Also, the double-curve nature of the sculpture would mean that one piece of the text would be projected in the morning, as the sun rises on the east side -- and the other would be more visible in the evening, as the sun sets on the west side. Harkens back to his apparent interest in ancient Egyptian design.

[@TheIndispensableOpposition]

29:10 only lemmino can make his audience sit through a black screen with only morse code beeps and letters in the middle of a 50 minute documentary

[@ObaidFaisal]

because he is the goat

[@ThinkerYT]

Crazy how i watched 47 minutes of numbers and letters and didnt get bored for a second lol Lemmino is the goat

[@JoeRogansForehead]

You’re forcing yourself to like this because of the channel it comes from. Atleast be honest , this ain’t no jfk or jack the ripper video . This is a filler video I hope .

[@mazef8836]

@@JoeRogansForehead nah this is more interesting than jfk and jack the ripper honestly

[@TigerTex]

@@JoeRogansForehead totally agree. Not a good topic. The planets one is his best in recent memory

[@JoeRogansForehead]

@@mazef8836 that Jack the Ripper video is one of THE best true crime documentaries ever made . Way better than the ones put out on TV or Netflix even. I usually skip Jack the Ripper videos because it’s been done so much but the visuals he used in it to map out the crimes is perfect . He somehow got the environment of Victorian England to come through on an animated KZbin documentary.

[@tw507]

not much of a thinker are you then?

[@white_out]

Putting the NSA through a whole ass ARG is crazy 💀

[@jacobp8294]

Then they solve it and get mad because it's a buncha hippie bullshit

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I mean, going through an ARG is pretty much their job, except for them it's real life.

[@tonton9598]

bro was commissioned to do an art piece but gave the entire human race a headache in the next 30 years (and counting)

[@NoSaysJo]

bro doesn't know how to use grammar ​@@tonton9598

[@thezipcreator]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 it's just an RG

[@ironvix5183]

13:09 if you look VERY carefully you can see the word "abscissa" right as it goes to the bottom. cool detail LEMMiNO

[@darshbhardwaj5502]

Nice catch

[@saaros]

sorry, could you point out more specifically where?

[@AbrahamssonAlexander]

@@saaros Last example of what word he might have used as a keyword just before the red words goes out of screen

[@domcxz8643]

How the fck do spot that 😊

[@ApofKol]

What a sneaky bastard

[@crushbeast29]

34:10 I deliberately slowed down the video and you actually said all 192 letters, both times. Thank you.

[@TheLOL_11]

The fact that we've been at this for 33 years, with the first three being solved relatively instantly while the 4th one is still unsolved makes me think that Sanborn is literally just trolling us, and he's just gonna tell us all on his deathbed that he was kidding this whole time and it's all just gibberish.

[@ktleen]

Exactly the vibes i get from him haha

[@iGamezRo]

The guy is 3 weeks older than my grandpa. My grandpa, a train mechanic with an average pension and heart disease from an ex-comunist country, is still holding, so a guy like Jim, who could who has much more money and who could get access to much more professional health care won't die anytime soon.

[@marcelhdhd]

Nice profile pic bro

[@alexsmith-ob3lu]

I get the impression that he used “spiritual” (numerology) ciphering for the last part. Not so much scientific, technical or mathematical encryption.

[@elsienova4269]

I tend to agree with this. I am not an expert cryptographer but I have been invested in the topic from a young age, especially around the history of famous codes. One thing that I learnt is that any sort of code that takes this long to break, is simply a troll. Any method of encryption that a human mind can use, even one that they created themselves not based upon an already existing cypher, is reversible or the plain text can be extracted. There is in fact no event in history since the 60s where actually decryptable code, has remained encrypted for this long before being found out. Every single time it's either that the text was never meant to be something that can be decrypted. The fact Kryptos K4 stays not even extracted for this long when we have machines and information like we do today, meanwhile the entire other part of Kryptos was decrypted in just 2 days by a bunch of interns, is proof that the entire puzzle has no solution. Nothing to be obtained at the end or understood. Like Sanborn said in interviews, it's just a form of long art.

[@QuilloManar]

With the morse code, the RQ at the end (.-. --.-) is actually probably meant to be CQ (-.-. --.-) - When a tapper taps out CQ CQ CQ, they are asking "Can anyone hear me?" or "Is someone receiving?" So, CQ SOS "Can anyone hear me?" "I need help!"

[@daavocadoguy5733]

During my boy scouts radio merit badge training our instructors told us that CQ also sounds as "seek you"

[@0x7d69]

CQ is used the same way in Ham Radio, as well as most military situations iirc, usually when using morse code or long distance comms, that's a good catch! i'm a ham and didn't even notice it!

[@KevinEnjoyer]

Interesting. Does this have anything to do with CQD, the original distress code?

[@daiyankhan6502]

- "Can you see Q?" - Can you CQ? - Can you "hear me"?

[@vishak-nair]

Is it possible four strings of E in morse code means error in transmission?

[@kalebbruwer]

I do like the conflict of the artist trying to design a puzzle to be solved in a certain way and the cryptographers finding their own way entirely. It shows a difference in mentality between artists and, well, nerds.

[@forgotultag1543]

There is also the realistic necessity for NSA cryptography guys to avoid the "artist approach" - they very likely need to decipher codes in unfamiliar languages, or even languages that do not make their words (lexicon) with verbal alphabets, so the usage of maths is just them being professionals

[@neptoon1518]

There’s something fitting about the final cypher not being cracked despite the massive technological advances since the puzzle was created. Almost like the solution must be solved with this artistic mentality.

[@alexjames7144]

​@@forgotultag1543 Yeah the thing is that whilst for a creator the solution may seem very doable, there are realistically billions of ways to creatively and artistically encode something. So trying to work based on that idea would be true brute force work and take way longer than using clever pattern recognition to bypass the encryption.

[@Blex_040]

It very much reminds me of the battle between game devs and speedrunners. Game devs put so much thought into boss design and then a speedrunner comes equipped with a fish using a specific attack to do animation cancelling beating the boss by just spamming one button xD

[@synthwave7467]

@@Blex_040 tbf, those speedrunners have spent a lot of time on said game to know about those exploits

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

K1 mentions light and shadow an an illusion. The morse code tablets are arranged outward almost like fragments of a greater whole, the Berline clock tells time using a morse-like pattern, the bronze cap has compass points on it, and the sculpture allows light to pass through it. The K4 text reads "eastnortheast", and geocoordinates were mentioned earlier. The shadow of the sculpture itself is the key, probably while looking at a specific direction at a certain time of day.

[@theoneway22]

So uh, just spit all in right now, but and hear this through, could the entire answer actually be what the chick in the 1992 February Hustler magazines tattoo actually spells?

[@nacaburnett1635]

Now my brain is braining

[@DHCR-core]

The deliberate misspellings to throw off codebreaking attempts is one of those things that I love because it can either be a clue or a complete red herring.

[@iyoe]

Jokes on them, I can't english

[@typicalchomper917]

I know it was almost certainly intentional, but the idea he genuinely just misspelled those words by accident is funny af to me

[@RyanSoltani]

I like to think bro just forgot how to spell and didn’t bother fixing it

[@NP_Al]

@@typicalchomper917 he released the thingys for k1&2 and one of the words that were "misspelled " were spelled correctly in the official release

[@psterud]

"desparatly" has two errors in it.

[@CrimsoniteSP]

I like how this guy made a reputation of only posting once in a blue moon and every single video is an absolute banger. Love this guy

[@bentumbling9876]

@@jaypolas4136 the term "once in a blue moon" refers to an event that "rarely" happens. just like blue moon that happens every two or three years.

[@vnlbrand]

even crazier to think when i first saw this guy he was doing like top 10 rage comics type videos

[@Pingwinho]

@@jaypolas4136 my brother, why ask in a comment (where you can get false, satirical answers) instead of just typing the same thing into Google?!

[@yugdails]

Yeah… it takes long because he’s working on the next video.

[@wowplayer160]

@@vnlbrand At least he was uploading

[@prabhchahal4492]

The beat part of Lemmino is he isnt partnering with anyone, no nebula, no nothing. Selects a fantastic topic, puts in tremendous effort, drops a banger on youtube! Guy’s a messiah

[@Kwyjibo28372]

Yeah. Though if Nebula came to his door with a briefcase full of cash, I wouldn't blame him for taking it!

[@okla2196]

Yeah bro hes really good but no messiah please do not use gods name in vain

[@BryanLu0]

​@@okla2196A messiah is not necessarily God, could be a king or high priest. Messiah means savior/liberator

[@WaaluigiBoard]

Nebula is great tho

[@ernad395]

@@okla2196 Please do not compare God to a messiah, that is an insult as God cannot be compared to human beings

[@ifeigen]

Sound design is amazing as usual. Thanks for making this video.

[@Renouf]

31:45 "T IS YOUR POSITION" -> So "you" are at "T" -> VIR"TU"ALLY is the only instance of a U at a T -> the letters immediately following it are the ALLYINVI for ABSCISSA

[@yuu34567]

that definitely sounds like the intended process actually! great catch??

[@Drumm333r]

Also randomly noted that the iqlusion typo coincides with the extra L on the text and maybe we can suppose that in the last sentence the Q near the question mark is just a simple substitution for the L. Also i think that the question mark is intended as a visual representation of a letter or of a word in some culture related to the rest of the text

[@SixStringsGeek]

good spot there!

[@glasses2926]

This also implies that there isn't any "cut out part" - this was the intended sentence. Nice spot, this definitely deserves to be higher in the comments so Lemmino can see it!

[@ghostsoffishandcrows7341]

+

[@RAWMUSICTV]

I've never been more confused in my entire life for 47 minutes straight whilst also being utterly fascinated with why I'm so confused.

[@kyles7533]

This video made me feel so dumb B and smart all at once.

[@LuisSierra42]

I solved K4 but will not tell anyone

[@soniablanche5672]

You will be even more confused when you try to understand how actual good encryption algorithms work

[@Ok-lu8gx]

ok

[@Souleater787]

I thought I couldn't grasp it because I was too high but I just watched it sober and yeah its just a step above my paygrade

[@sevensagittarius6759]

something i noticed was in 13:06, when the graphic starts scrolling down, one of the keywords is "Abscissa". you cheeky little cryptid you

[@swagmanjay.]

thats so cool, knowing how much time and effort he puts into these it doesn't surprise me he would put little easter eggs in them

[@sevensagittarius6759]

@@swagmanjay. up until now, i didnt realize he made his own music for them either. my appreciation for his videos has went up a lot!

[@Joangelo12345]

It’s incredible how we’ve gone from ‘top 10’ videos to these amazingly put together documentaries

[@LM-MMM]

Holy fuck, I can't believe it's been 9 months since the JFK video. I was in an awful place when that video came out, I watched it from my desk at a job that made me fat and miserable. I quit, went back to college full time, and started working out every day. I am so much happier and healthier right now. I hope everyone else has been doing well since the last upload :)

[@FernandoRodriguez-kr1zt]

Good shit brother

[@crashingintoearthwithmalic2088]

Huge, keep it up!

[@MrBikboi]

I didn't realize this was your blog

[@EmilForsberg_GRYBO]

Im still at the same job i was at when that video dropped and it feels like it could have been a month ago for me, but damn, 9 months huh...

[@TheEncouragementKid]

yeaaaah boii!!! that's epic, well done (: keep it up young king

[@Joey_Rodgers]

You know it’s a great day when lemmino remembers his KZbin password 🙏

[@helmutdergroe9457]

Like this comment

[@CreepySpino]

Lmao fr 😂

[@nobodyknew]

😂😂😂😂

[@Onyyyxx]

Lmaoo

[@Wrsfts]

VIOLATED 💀💀💀

[@Amy-oh8qb]

I wonder if anyone has tried reading one half of the sculpture THROUGH the other half (the light of the sun casting shadows as though they're superimposed upon one another). I'd assume the compass pointing to the lodestone, coordinates mentioned in the solved part of the code and/or the East North East Berlin might provide the direction the sculpture is intended to be read through OR the direction in which the sun needs to be shining in order to provide the solution. All of that aside, what a beautiful piece of art! Not just the "main" sculpture, but the whole interactive experience. Absolutely wonderful ☺

[@Hrshgn]

I was also thinking superimposition. It would explain why the letters are not aligned properly. The resulting light pattern could be morse code again for example.

[@waffle911]

My aunt actually dated Jim Sanborn in the late 90's. Got to meet him as a kid. He was working on a reconstruction of the nuclear fission bomb lab, got one of the control machines restored in working order and the others cosmetically restored with simulated indicators.

[@andreadag]

cool

[@Daniel-Rosa.]

What the heck?!

[@Derm69]

Is this a hint?

[@user-kv7ot9xf2e]

@@Derm692 bucks on it

[@MarcoMelendres]

What?

[@davi4816]

i can hear the sheer annoyance and desperation of cracking this code at the end there lmao this definitely got lemmino crazy for months

[@empiricalandinquirical2435]

Kinda like Sanborn.

[@justamanofculture12]

Typical Lemmino 🗿🗿🗿

[@mane4299]

Never clicked faster in my life

[@metalhead222]

same

[@Br-ys]

fr

[@jonathankreamer]

Agreed

[@engineertf2971]

real.

[@johncoffee5468]

Said the same thing

[@Mattipedersen]

I immediately recognized the K3 text, as soon as it was disclosed. Of course it is missing the best part, which is the response from Howard Carter, when Lord Carnarvon asked him "Can you see anything?", to which Carter replied "Wonderful Things!".

[@chrisw.5138]

It's funny, I never read the book mentioned, but I immediately had for some reason Carter and the tomb in my head...

[@cameron6538]

Book cipher for k4 moment??

[@valengar7]

This has to be my most paused video, with the most 30 sec rewinds. Well made, thank you!

[@jaxenbond422]

LEMMiNO is seriously the gold standard for documentaries/ video essays. The amount of production, research, and effort is so apparent and incredible. Im honestly suprised he can put out the number of videos he does

[@YoY664]

No arguments there

[@nulled7888]

Melodysheep is a very close contender too imo

[@jaxenbond422]

@@nulled7888 Definitely agree, but gotta give the gold standard to lemmino because I'm a lemmino fanboy

[@barsnack7999]

lolwhat he release one video half a year dmbfuki

[@CFP2000]

@@barsnack7999you go produce something even half as good as this, no chance you’ll get it done in a year lmao

[@pcfreakx]

I'm an infosec/crypto nerd and the amount of research done here is insane. And the editing work. If I had to do just one of these sequences in After Effects, I'd cry. Amazing work here.

[@Darxeal]

I'd hope he used a coding animation tool like manim or motion canvas for the cypher animations

[@yousef858]

No one cares lil bro come join us in waiting for yet another 6 months until another video drops

[@jamesf4423]

That would be fascinating were I gay

[@Technobitz]

Are you

[@saltcruise]

i think he is

[@evilutionltd]

K4 must have been run through 2 cyphers because using 1 cypher, a letter will never become itself, yet the 5th letter after BERLIN that should spell CLOCK ends in a K in the original code.

[@neovictorius]

Depends on the cipher

[@egorsilovs156]

I think you're thinking of the enigma machine, which did use that kind of cipher, but this isn't necessarily true for all of them

[@vishalbala1]

I figured that "BERLIN CLOCK" was talking about the world clock in Alexanderplatz, which would also align with the "EASTNORTHEAST" clue and the GPS coordinates from K2.

[@shipsdarknes5127]

Another little detail I found were the words DIG and CAR I’m not sure if this is purposeful or if it will help but I found it

[@AllGoodOutside]

You're way off, the answer is Jimmy Stewart-42

[@alexberta5195]

The fact that he said in a recording that he's not very good at math and that he loves putting out misinformation and scramble decipher attempts using extra letters or intentional misspellings, and of course the fact that he said that he's getting impatient that nobody can solve K4 can be pointing towards just pure trolling in general. He said that he wanted to make something to practically immortalize his name. K4 could very well just be gibberish and he's one of the worlds biggest trolls.

[@lonestarr1490]

But would you rather want to be immortalized by gibberish, or by genuine code that nobody can crack? It doesn't have to be gibberish to be virtually uncrackable.

[@frosthammer917]

@@lonestarr1490 I mean yeah, if you just throw enough cyphers at the same piece of text repeatedly, you can get something that is virtually uncrackable. Its not a particularly good or interesting from a codebreaking challenge point of view, but wouldn't be surprised if he did it.

[@cocrush8470]

eastnotherneast berlinclock

[@andysandy3465]

@@lonestarr1490 but does anyone seriosuly believe that the guy was actually let in on something top secret/important and they just let him just share it all with everyone, even though in a decryptc form. We are living in the world that doesn't make much sense. It's all non-sense. And he might've just (arguably) immortalized himself as the biggest troll in the history of humankind?

[@lonestarr1490]

@@andysandy3465 I have no idea where you pulled the "top secret/important" from. Did anyone suggest that K4 might held some form of secret information? I'm not aware of such a statement.

[@jontymig2016]

Irish viewer here. A big thank you for the little pause.

[@jonesy279]

Appreciated by us Aussies too 😂

[@DogMutilator]

Don't forget about the rest of the Brits

[@JediMasterYoda66]

im american and i could not hold back laughter at his name

[@bbbnuy3945]

can someone explain?

[@onlinefriend3889]

@@bbbnuy3945Sheidt sounds like Shite

[@mysteriousoul]

Here is how one reads the Berlin Clock: Top circle: light flashes every 2 seconds; 'on' 1-second, 'off' 1-second. 1st row: hour of day in 5-hour increments, up to 20. 2nd row: hour of day in 1-hour increments, up to 4

[@Tomasz987987]

41:05 - how about Urania-Weltzeituhr clock instead? If you look at this clock from above you can see that it is divided into 12 parts, like on compass.. Sooo maybe cities on east-north-east part are clues? Krasnojarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Bator, Hanoi, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Jakarta, Peking, Shanghai, Manila, Perth, Hongkong, Kuala lumpur, Singapur

[@batt0usai377]

No flashy intro. No unnecessary bs. Hops in, blows our mind with therapeutic voice, hops out. Goated

[@VoxAstra-qk4jz]

Idk man, the DB Cooper video's flashy intro was awsome

[@lethauntic]

If there was a flashy intro the video would suck I agree

[@wolfiemuse]

@@lethaunticDB cooper is sick tho

[@winKoneR]

No flashy intro, no unnecessary bs, just Lemmino.

[@alexscriba6075]

At this point his intro gives me goosebumps cause I know I’m in for a great time

[@cerealisasoup2439]

18:16 Can't believe that Jim Sanborn travelled 25+ years into the future to make a reference to Walter white in his artwork. Truly a visionary.

[@sanjaypasupatheeswaran7299]

you sneaky

[@ItsDiesL]

W.W. Huh. Who do you figure that is? Woodrow Wilson? Willy Wonka? Walter White? William Webster?

[@shua_the_great]

Exactly my thoughts haha

[@FHT1883]

@@ItsDiesL William Wordsworth

[@Champion919Games]

⁠@@ItsDiesLWally West? Wonder Woman? William Williams? William Wilburforce? Will Wheaton? Wade Wilson? Wally Walrus?

[@jmorgmate]

The fact you had to learn and understand this first, in order to be able to create this content and explain it to us is just incredible dedication. You're the absolute GOAT, never stop doing these.

[@TheFewAndOnly]

I don't quite understand everything here but I always love a new Lemmino video

[@DLAYtv]

lol as an Irish viewer I laughed at the guys surname “Scheidt” then you said “ok I’m gonna let my Irish viewers process that surname” lol completely broke the 4th wall for me 😂

[@Sulverhand]

Same 😂

[@Squizie3]

Non-irish here: works perfectly in Dutch as well. Scheidt would be pronounced as schijt, i.e. the Dutch equivalent of shite

[@Chikitee]

Same here gang

[@cadendavidson6057]

there’s no 4th wall here. he is directly addressing the audience throughout the entire video

[@ronsongathus9634]

@@cadendavidson6057 Well yes. Most YT vids do directly addresses their audience, it's common. However it's the level of cinematography of LEMMiNO's documentary that made people forgets it's just a YT video, not a cinema. It's an attest of LEMMiNO's quality work.

[@KarelPletsStriker]

Sanborn not expecting how long it would take to solve K4 has big "I didn't know number theory proofs would be this hard" energy

[@lonestarr1490]

Mathematics might be Sanborn's bane. But number theory is a mathematician's bane.

[@AllGoodOutside]

@@lonestarr1490 42

[@corvigay]

as someone who has a very difficult time understanding how cryptography works, your visual representations are absolutely fantastic! it was very easy to understand everything you were explaining, and i appreciate just how much extra work was put into that aspect of the video. very excited to have found this channel!

[@novocaine88]

Absolutely exceptional editing on this video. Making a very complex topic (almost) completely understandable for a layman! Good shit. Thoroughly interesting.

[@judyyy0180]

And thus as we conclude watching the video, we crawl back into hibernation, waiting for the next episode to drop, knowing we will be excited and satisfied. Thank you LEMMiNO

[@Jerebeez]

Just like a Cicada!? 😮

[@zainpog]

until then you can watch Fern videos similar quality to Lemmino

[@vestavind]

It was a pleasure to watch. I'm crawling back into my shell now, see you around next time!

[@vostpelk1596]

The clock mentioned in K4 might be the Berlin World Clock, as it has a compass under it, with one of the directions on it being ONO-Osten Nordosten or East North East in english which is also mentioned

[@joshduffety-wong9618]

Around the time the sculptures were commissioned, the Berlin Wall fell. Which may have inspired some influence

[@julianbustamnte7123]

Has anyone considered not an English word but maybe a German word, especially if Berlin is in it

[@loyje5ter]

yeah, i think thats nore likely as well, esp considering its much more well known

[@FHT1883]

@@julianbustamnte7123 maybe the codeword is Manhattan (from the Leonard Cohen song)

[@adrianwilhelm]

Some interesting facts i have found; the original location of the Berlin Clock mentioned in the video was on the intersection of two streets: Kurfürstendamm and Uhlandstraße; the street called Kurfürstendamm is a EAST-NORTHEAST bound street which ends at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church; notable places located EAST-NORTHEAST of the Berlin Clock: the embassy of the USA, Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Berlin Cathedral.

[@CollegeHustler]

Wow! Your explanations of different cypher techniques was so easy to follow and had great visuals! You should release a course class on this subject!

[@dominiklovric4026]

Ngl disappointed lemmino didn't play his song "cipher" absolute banger

[@ItsMoorbinTime]

All of KZbin gathers to this channel yearly.

[@helmutdergroe9457]

Bruh

[@dx-ek4vr]

It's our yearly pilgrimage of sorts

[@aliali-ce3yf]

"but why? let's dive into it" - YT videos 10 yrs from now , same spooky mysterious music

[@Soloohara]

??? why

[@MJIZZEL]

Yep

[@scapegoat4]

The thing I noticed the most while watching this is that Sanborn loves lining things up and making them symmetrical, only to add one or two things that "ruin" it. I feel like the morse code and the berlin clock "line up" in some way too, but I'm a complete idiot and I bet that's already been tried lol. Maybe rotating the clock/ morse code in a similar fashion to what was done previously? As per usual, this was a video that's an incredibly random topic-wise but still incredibly entertaining in a way that holds your attention for a longer period of time. Thank you!

[@aidenbealer8227]

Maybe, somehow, the coordinates for the clock can be cross-referenced to the coordinates in K2, and maybe even those of King Tut’s tomb. Just spitballing

[@cemsity]

for me it is the compass, the south arrow points east-northeast. Also i do not believe it is a hill cipher (requires some knowledge of matrix multiplication) and the extra 'L' is symmetrically placed.

[@joshuadarrow]

two immediate observations/theories I have regarding K4 involve the idea that the KRYPTOS table itself might have to be altered to decode it, either by: A) Shifting the table down two rows so that the L on the left side is in line with the right hand one but keeping the horizontal position the same. B) flipping the table so the L is on the Left hand side (This could be done IRL by simply walking around to the other side of the statue) C) some combination of the two.

[@Crowald]

You never know what contribution might end up solving a problem like this. Experts and seasoned veterans of any profession faced with a problem often have tunnel vision, thinking about problems with the same set of solutions every time. The idiom "fresh set of eyes" didn't just show up one day, it was inducted into the English lexicon for a reason. Sometimes a problem requires the insight that a more basic or simple perspective provides.

[@doctorworm420]

Yeah, I think that's why there are so many superfluous Es they're just a pip/dit so they can be used to make the shape symmetrical and the RQ SOS ruins that. I think the R is a C there's only one dit difference C is dit-dah-dit-dah and R is dit-dah-dit-dah-dit CQ SOS means "I am sending a distress call" or "Have you heard my distress call?" Which I think refers to the Can you see Q?or Can you CQ? The artist wants to know if we've received his message.

[@faithF8]

Freaking brilliant! Thank you! Hoping we get to enjoy another fantastic one this year 🤗

[@WindowCrepe]

It's been two weeks since the release of this video and I've watched it probably ten times. Your videos are perfect for both attentive watching and background noise for sleeping. I've never found another similar channel for this exact purpose.

[@ImmaFarmerInMalaysia]

I need the unedited version of Lemmino counting to 192 twice

[@retrrox]

ASAP!

[@anthonymcevans8191]

That’s the definition of the word ‘commitment’.

[@iKonographi]

Irish viewer here; I literally repeated “Scheidt” out loud and chuckled to myself as soon as you said the name, your interjection then straight after was the icing on the cake, thank you LEMMiNO 😂

[@francescamoran1240]

Same here, are we really that predictable 😂😂😂

[@harshitsharma2690]

what does it mean? Asking for as non english non Irish people.

[@joedartonthefenderbass]

@@harshitsharma2690 Literally just means shit

[@Stripe263]

Northern England here, love the word. I remember a Kevin Bridges bit when he said the main difference between "shit" and "shite" was that people have made "shit" positive now, i.e. "That's good shit" - but "shite" just means "shite". You can't have "good shite" 🤣

[@manuello1938]

I kept hearing McGregor saying that all the time and I just got the joke immediately when he stated "Irish" lol

[@monographix]

that morse code at 29:10 lowkey was spitting a fire breakcore beat

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Incredible! Always a hoot when you upload, thanks dude!

[@ddh9851]

LEMMiNO - if you ever read this message, you're the best creator on KZbin. And as HistoryDose stated your videos are "drop everything and watch this now" videos. Thank you.

[@gagemcmahon9485]

No doubt, hands down, best of the best

[@kayn840]

The goat of KZbin. No questions asked

[@irotinmyskin]

Lemmino, Ahoy and Captain Pikant are far far beyond every one else making videos on KZbin or even Netflix, etc.

[@rektangel333]

@@irotinmyskinwho tf is captain pikant

[@irotinmyskin]

@@rektangel333 Use that search bar tiger, it does wonders.

[@CharlieCrook]

I really appreciate how you always add closed captioning, thank you so much!!

[@caramelldansen2204]

😊 it's great 😊

[@kidkarbon4775]

Absolute best content ive seen on social media for years, thank you for the effort in making this, super interesting

[@user-pi3uv5fc9v]

I remember being a young boy watching top 10 facts on this channel. Please don’t ever stop your youtube career you make a huge(good) impact man 🔥

[@miguelferreira4370]

OMG ITS HAPPENING

[@kirb2033]

NEW VID

[@MrCommentGod]

It has only been 215 days (Not that I have been counting)

[@lachlanlau]

i appreciate you reading all 192 characters multiple times

[@papafrank7094]

Thank you for posting this. A wonderful walk through my mental hobbies. And you've given me the first smile of my day. Thanks again.

[@justbenny9067]

Such a detailed and well edited video, great work

[@saint2669]

Lemmino the kinda dude to show up out of thin air, say two sentences, and the next 40 minutes from that point is a complete mystery to you, cause you've been busy listening to whatever he got on his mind this time. Absolute masterpiece, love your videos!

[@lukaszspychaj9210]

What?

[@miloandash]

On the ? from K3 (36:08) I’m pretty sure it belongs to K4 because the Q probably represents the question mark in the tomb manuscript. Since X is being used to represent a period it would make sense to use letters for other punctuation. And as we know (especially since it was mentioned in the video) Q is one of the most uncommon letters which makes it a perfect candidate to represent “?”. I had a hunch when it was first mentioned at (23:35) but seeing the table basically confirms it.

[@CosmicHase]

That's a really smart theory.

[@alexties6933]

And to state the obvious, Q = Question mark = ?

[@judet2992]

@@alexties6933probably, since X means a stop like a period, the Q meaning question is not even a stretch.

[@alexties6933]

@@judet2992 yes and this furthers the idea that K4 is written backwards. Or maybe in spanish, since questions in spanish start with a ? and end with a turned ?

[@AllyInOrbit]

this is exactly what i was thinking

[@Pindolene]

I absolutely love the way you explained the ciphers!

[@mossy_nutz]

Wild to see to go form top 10 videos to this. Keep up the good work man

[@Nova3482]

No exaggeration, I think this is my favorite Lemmino video till date. I love every video he puts out, but the ones about puzzles have a special touch to them

[@DwarfDt]

Ì loved his cooper an Malaysia video still to this date🎉😅

[@schnabelborg]

I totally agree! The Cicade one is also high on the list for me

[@Belgrythaz]

That "Top 10 facts - Porn" though. Classic!

[@DwarfDt]

@@Belgrythaz loved it when he was a top 10 channel. Humble beginnings . What was his weird ass name before he rebranded 🤣

[@bendring7018]

@@DwarfDt Top 10 Memes I believe

[@llellio]

31:00 - In morse code transmission, it is standard practice to parse an incorrect transmission with 5 “E’s”. Essentially it is to signify a false statement made on behalf of the operator.

[@Daniel-Rosa.]

Mmmmmmmmmmm!

[@skultuto5792]

I've watched you since the top 10 memes crazy how far its come since than. i always watch these videos at least a few times over!!

[@uzqx.]

something that caught my eye was the mention of the use of light and technology to decrypt. i'm sure someone has tried this but maybe digitally scanning both "halves" of the sheet and mapping them on each other? maybe some shadow would be produced by using 3d simulation software? that's what got me thinking anyways

[@xXDYLZ4NXx]

I was watching an episode of Star Trek Deep Space 9 with my brother yesterday and there's a scene where Sisko says 'Let me know', my brother then tells me that he was watching one of your videos and thought he recognized the voice in your intro, lo and behold the 'Lemmino' in your intro is Sisko's line from that episode of DS9. Couldn't believe my brother picked up on that.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Nice

[@teresamatuzak]

OH OH MY GOD MY MIND IS BLOWN 🤯 I've seen every episode of DS9 and was never able to connect the dots. Thank you for pointing this out! 😁😁

[@bigdoggo5827]

Holy that's. That's so interesting, I didn't know what was the origin of Lemmino

[@janeh9962]

OH MY GOD NO WAY. this is so cool

[@EpsilonKnight2]

Avery Brooks, the legend.

[@Computurtle]

I had just been looking at this channel a couple weeks ago saying to myself "damn, I can't wait for him to upload again", and then I saw the iconic thumbnail style and instantly clicked on it. Welcome back LEMMiNO

[@comradepierogi]

I was rewatching JFK documentary yesterday and was thinking “wonder what his next video is going to be”. Couple hours later I see this pop up.

[@ino9138]

it was yesterday that I talk to myself " hmm last video was 7 month ago, I wonder when will he upload again" and boom this video comes up hours later. it was a good day

[@JulienDavid2024]

For those who are wondering, the song at 23:59 is All Will Pass by Alfie-Jay Winters.

[@phivegz]

Unlike your other videos, I have no idea what this video was about even after watching it.

[@jameslucas0]

THE KING HAS RETURNED

[@shawnchristianson324]

Instant click as soon as I saw the notification. Already know it’s going to be worth every second

[@thatcat_]

I was almost shocked seeing this in my feed

[@jaypolas4136]

I started watching with one hand bro

[@sam08g16]

King? More like fckn LEGEND!

[@Pudding404]

Lemmino going into extreme detail with the most random subject every upload on a once a year basis. I really want to know what kind of rng he uses to decide his topic. Welcome back, everyone. Been a while.

[@jaypolas4136]

RNG? Pretty sure he just picks something cause "It sounded cool"

[@scallywag-rascal]

It’s obvious he’s on his CIA grind. his last documentary was literally the JFK assassination.

[@royisdabest]

@@jaypolas4136dont worry, this guy is a poser

[@Monjijii]

pretty sure its unsolved mysteries

[@ajpdeschenes]

There's no random subject. It's always about an unsolved mystery.

[@dxrebel]

Beyond all the twitch drama, cat videos, and unfunny talk show hosts, there is still quality content like this

[@aydenjohnson9108]

Lemmino ur content rlly helped me through the years love what you do

[@psikoexe]

18:16 WW? Who do you figure that is? Woodrow Willson? Willy Wonka? Walter White? *Breaking Bad music intensifies*

[@michaelcarbajal.]

Dang it you beat me to it !!

[@MoonChild-4724]

Walt Whitman?

[@Archimedeeez]

woody woodpecker

[@athhher]

World war

[@ramu2675]

walmart worker

[@SusScrofaBob]

There at least three special clocks in Berlin I know of: 1) The "Berlin-Uhr" shown by LEMMINO that is located in front of the Europa Center but was located at Kurfürstendamm until 1996. 2) The "Weltzeituhr" at Alexanderplatz that is the most famous clock in Berlin and even a sight of the city. 3) The "Uhr der fließenden Zeit" that works with communicating watertanks and siphons inside the Europa Center. But if K4 really references any of this clocks, the first one is the most likely because it is the only one where the official German name translates to "Berlin Clock".

[@user-vd2oc9mx8e]

Alexanderplatz is located east-northeast of berlin clock, so maybe its name in the k4 too...

[@Canleaf08]

"Hand mit Uhr" is another one, shown in "Everything counts" by depeche mode...

[@Chickenbreadlp]

@@user-vd2oc9mx8e That is an interesting thought. What if the reason K4 wasn't solved yet is because it isn't solvable with English alone, but requires knowledge of other languages too. Prolly too far-fetched for an art installation at a US intellegence agency from a US artist, but yeah...

[@pepsimanv7883]

@@Chickenbreadlp maybe far fetched but not impossible, has anyone tried going into google street view and seeing the location around the clocks?

[@Sporquill]

I genuinely learned so much about cryptography from this video, which was very interesting, thank you!

[@jaronmeyer1]

Freaking brilliant as always. Great work LEMMiNO

[@samuelmallick3778]

"Virtually Invisible". The morse codes on the granite were undeed present, but they were "undergruund" making then "virtually invisible"

[@Hinghee123]

an iqlusion to trick us that it is undergruund

[@MrCommentGod]

0:00 when you hear the *"just let me know"* and that music fade in You know you are in for a good watch 🍿

[@Overlycomplicatedswede]

Bra jobbat på denna video! Lemmino, glad att se dig tillbaka på YT. Kärlek från jönköping

[@HungNguyenuc-ry6rm]

Appreciate all the amazing work brother , best 45 minutes of the week

[@olgierdvoneverec4135]

The one thing that stood out to me is: he had a background in archeology? He might have indeed not used a simple cypher technique, and instead intended for the thing to be cracked like hieroglyphs with some sort of roseta stone or like Asya did with her human, Yuri Knorozov when they cracked the Mayan script. That is to say it might be worth it to try it as a non English text. But I don’t know, I’m not a cryptographer in the slightest.

[@ladycharlotte210]

unrelated but I just fell down a rabbit hole about yuri knorozov, i had no idea who he was but i'm so interested in his work now. thank you! p.s. the berlin legend in his wiki page got me laughing about k4 (tho i'm sure it's a happy coincidence)

[@NoriMori1992]

I just looked up Yuri Knorozov, I love this: "Knorozov listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work, but the editors always removed her. He always used the photo with Asya (above) as his author photo, and got annoyed when editors cropped her out."

[@shua_the_great]

This passed through my mind. Not the archeology. I don't know shit about archeology lol. But why not throw another language in? It would make it more fun, no?

[@estefencosta1835]

I think at the end it will point to a physical object or location. There are a lot of direction or coordinate based components and he definitely likes incorporating the physical. He talks about machines a bunch too and how they help break codes and how he likes that. Makes me think of the enigma machine which was invented in Germany (more later). IMO the whole puzzle reads more like a story and sequence of events. Saying that too much expertise can be a bad thing (sic) to me says that cryptographers might be hamstrung by trying to view it purely through the lens of cryptography. In other words just trying to brute force the whole thing with ciphers might get you somewhere but ultimately not put you on the right path. I think it's more like pretend you're in a Dan Brown novel only the puzzle isn't globe-trotting and also it isn't a terrible book. Others have pointed out the Berlin Clock in question (or the one that seems to be the correct clock) is on a street that runs east-northeast. Since he revealed Berlin Clock and east northeast first for K4 I think he's really strong hinting at something in the physical world either being part of the solution or what the solution is pointing at, and that seems appropriate for an archeologist. In the end the whole thing will point to something "buried" in a sense. I'm a storyteller so that's how my mind works. Watching this whole thing and reading some of the comments that seemed astute it just gives me the feeling of if you lay out everything chronologically you might see where there are gaps in the story, what it's narrative is and looking at it from a narrative structure where it might lead to.

[@sam08g16]

What if the guy is a time traveller and his background in archaeology is actually the future excavation of the ancient Kryptos that he himself created while travelling to the past?

[@celine442]

You single-handedly ignited my interest in cryptography

[@ezzaxxh]

Good stuff it's really interesting

[@Ronin-dy3zo]

this is so cool man, glad you uploaded it.

[@crushbeast29]

Given the fact he already made a mistake earlier in the cypher, and the fact that it's been so long since he made K4 and nobody has gotten close to solving it, leads me to believe there are mistakes laden in K4.

[@JohnnyH1992]

I’ve got a semblance of a theory that the mistakes in the text of K1-3 might actually help unlock K4 somehow. The misplaced/mistake letters are Q, U, E and A. Which with the extra ‘mistake’ L from the Vigienere table could spell out Equal. This could be 1 layer of the code 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’m sure that someone far smarter than me has already noticed and tried this, but it’s something that jumped to my mind while watching

[@crushbeast29]

@@JohnnyH1992 That's a great idea actually.

[@PrestonFrankel]

It’s two days after this was first uploaded, and at 25:08 Lemmino remarkably accurately predicted the view count after that amount of time. It says 1,473,625 in the video, and the video is currently at 1,463,176. Research went into this tiny, tiny bit.

[@Enivoke]

Just wow, I even watched the video 2 days later just as it says in the video.

[@doublethenun]

@@Enivokeme too lol!

[@sir_albaxious1909]

SAME!!! Why the hell didn't I get notified!? I got freaked out sooo much that I was about to give out a slur that I consider a taboo.

[@LordDragox412]

Mate vastly underestimated the number of comments though.

[@ShubhTandon]

What are you guys even talking about 😂

[@bonezone2150]

I honestly can't believe I get to watch these videos for free. The research, the smooth, purposeful, visuals. There isn't a single minute wasted. Outstanding. I'm glad you do what you do.

[@jb_________27]

It's honestly unbelievable. The fact he made this video so fast after an almost 2 hour long one is crazy to me.

[@Cybersawz]

@@jb_________27 Yeah, almost like he has help.

[@R4Y7]

Insane quality on his own

[@youtubeuserdan4017]

I can believe it.

[@csbluechip]

Wow! How much effort did you put in to this‽ One of the best crypto documentaries I've watched. Thanks