Beale Cipher Hunter

Decode the Beale Ciphers B1 and B3 using any candidate key text. Slide the offset, score with IoC, hunt for the treasure.

A research tool for the two unsolved Beale Ciphers - B1 (burial location) and B3 (next of kin). Both are book ciphers: each number points to a word in a key document, and the first letter gives the plaintext. The key documents are unknown. If you find them, the treasure - gold and silver worth over $60 million buried in Bedford County, Virginia - may still be there. What it does Paste any candidate text. The extension tests every possible starting position automatically and flags anything meaningful, even with encoding errors or a slightly wrong document. 🔍 Automatic offset scanning - tries 500 starting positions in seconds 📊 Three independent scoring signals — chi-squared, ETAOIN convergence, and word matching 🔠 Fuzzy word matching - finds keywords with exactly one character wrong 🔍 Gillogly string detection - flags near-alphabetical sequences with trillion-to-one odds 📐 Word stride - tests the theory that B1's encoder numbered every other word 🌍 Foreign language support - add Spanish, French or Latin words to test non-English documents A built-in B2 Demo decodes the only solved cipher so you can see the system working before you hunt. Full historical background and documentation in the About tab. Full documentation built in The About tab covers the complete history of the Beale papers, how the cipher works, what every score means, the Gillogly strings, the NSA even-number theory, the hoax arguments, recommended candidate documents, and foreign language word suggestions.