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THE NUMBERS MASON
WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

BALLS
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How'd you go about solving it?

Just by looking at it, it was clear that it was most likely some sort of 5x5 grid-based cipher. I figured it out mostly just by trying things and seeing what worked, and it turned out that my hypothesis of it being a 5x5 grid-based cipher was correct.

Each line of the cipher is decoded like so (using the first row of the message as an example):
22|33 14 24 31 53 13 35 45 22 44
R|T

First we construct a 5x5 grid containing all the letters, except the letter T which is to be omitted. The beginning square is column 2 row 2, and that square contains the letter R.
Doing so results in the following (note that the letters go down first and then across, looping around as needed):
LQWBG
MRXCH
NSYDI
OUZEJ
PVAFK

We then use this grid to decode the numbers in the line. So the first letter would be Y since it's in column 3 row 3, the second letter would be O since it's in column 1 row 4, etc.

Hope that helps!

Is this a Polybius cipher?

This hurts me brain

i havent done these in a LONG time, learnt this in High School.

sadly its been a decade and a half since i last remembered to do this so it flew atop my head.

ima just gonna sit and take a gander and maybe try it out myself when im not at work or sleep deprived from work