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GLASSHEADS, pt. 2 Cover Challenge

This challenge can be found on the cover of issue 9. Spot the characters in the bottom left corner.

The URL

The characters have the rhythm of an https url:

xxxxx://xxxxxxxx.xx/xxxxxxx

The letters themselves look scrambled. Trying out a Caesar cipher rotation, we do not get anything that makes sense.

We need to try something different. From previous cover challenges, we know that the first fifteen letters are most likely:

https://tficomic.io/

We can also notice that repeating characters are always represented using the same letter: i is c, t is j.

There is only one letter in the final part of the URL which we do not know, and it is g. Replacing all other letters by their known substitute, it is not hard to guess the letter behind g.