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A Case Study in Solving the Riddle of FrancisTRDEV

Debajyati Dey on April 04, 2026

Recently, a riddle was posted by @francistrdev on 1st April on dev.to that presented a unique challenge: a multi-line poem obscured by Caesar shift...
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Great work! Couple of things.

  1. This is an interesting solution. However, this cipher can be decrypted much easier since it is a Caesar Cypher, meaning you can shift the keys easier. The Shift/Key number is 69 lol.

  2. Although you decrypted the text, you did not solve the actual riddle. With that said, the decryption is correct, so now riddle me this: What am I listening to?

Great work again! Well done and well documented too!

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bingkahu (Matteo)

I will post the answer here. Before reading the hint I immediately thought Rick Astley but then i saw the hint realized it was the Pokemon theme tune ( Gotta Catch Em All). Solved 😁

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Is it Rick Astley?...or the Pokemon Theme tune?

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bingkahu (Matteo)

I'm gonna say Pokemon. Locking it in 🤞

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Ok. I am gonna announce it soon where you can submit the answer more properly. Let me know if this works @bingkahu riddlesubmission.vercel.app

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bingkahu (Matteo)

Well when I go to riddlesubmission.vercel.app it throws me a 404, but when I click on the hyperlink on this DEV post it redirects to this...

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Willie Harris

Really cool breakdown of how “bigger isn’t always better” with LLMs—using consensus + context instead of brute force feels like the kind of elegant hack Reddit would absolutely upvote 🚀

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Debajyati Dey

Okay then I am going to post in reddit 😸