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Braille

Six dots in a 2x3 cell, one pattern per letter. A writing system read by fingertips - which you can also draw in colours.

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Result · Braille

234 15 14 1235 15 2345 / 134 15 234 234 1 1245 15 / 124 135 1235 / 2345 125 15 / 14 123 136 12

How it works

  1. 1A cell has six dots in two columns: 1, 2, 3 down the left side and 4, 5, 6 down the right. A letter is a set of raised dots.
  2. 2The first ten letters A-J use only the top two rows (dots 1, 2, 4, 5). The next rows add dot 3, then dots 3 and 6.
  3. 3Numbers get a number sign first (dots 3456) and then look like A-J: 1 is A, 2 is B, 0 is J.
  4. 4Czech Braille has its own patterns for accented letters and a different W. Upper and lower case are not told apart here.
  5. 5"125" means dots 1, 2 and 5, which is the letter H. An empty cell is a space, written as a slash.

Example

HELLO WORLD

Did you know

Louis Braille was born in 1809 and lost his sight after an accident in his father's workshop, becoming fully blind by about the age of five. At the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris he learned of Charles Barbier's military "night writing" of up to twelve dots. Around 1824, aged fifteen, he made a simpler six-dot system from it and published it in 1829. Braille also exists as Unicode characters from U+2800 (⠁⠃⠉), so you can paste it into a message.

Try to decode

This message is encrypted with Braille using the default settings:

Hint

S has dots 2, 3 and 4. Ignore the empty dots.

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