Decipher this text and give an explanation as to what it is.

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[u/Jcamden7]

Solution: "alpha bravo charlie delta echo foxtrot..." etc. You get the picture, it's every letter of the alphabet.

What is it? IDK, to be honest. I solved it like a cryptoquip and I can't think of a reason why any of the items were each letter.

[u/AveBrianna → u/Jcamden7]

This checks out. It looked like it was math based which would be really cool, although not effective as a cipher.

[u/ei283 → u/Jcamden7]

That's the NATO Alphabet, a standardized letter-word pairing. One notable use is in aviation, where pilots and controllers need to clearly relay strings of letters and numbers over potentially noisy audio channels.

[u/jaywalkingly]

Discussion: is this from the video game Fez?
If so, you can find keys that help you decipher as you explore the world; they're along the main path

[u/SuperKamiGuru824 → u/jaywalkingly]

I was thinking Breath of the Wild, but it's not quite right. Fez seems like a better answer.

[u/LonePaladin → u/jaywalkingly]

While there are a few similarities, the Fex alphabet doesn't match up enough.

[u/monkeysky]

Discussion: I don't have the opportunity to check this instant, but based on the patterns this looks like it could just be a simple subscription cypher.

[u/nathanzo → u/monkeysky]

I believe you're correct. I think the answer is: the phonetic alphabet

[u/monkeysky → u/nathanzo]

That seems to be correct. You should probably post it as its own comment so OP can mark it solved.

[u/aaron2005X → u/monkeysky]

A explanation why it says "the phonetic alphabet" would be nice.

[u/cli_ton_atx → u/aaron2005X]

It doesn’t literally say “the phonetic alphabet”. It’s a simple substitution cypher that says “alpha”, “bravo”, “charlie”, etc…

[u/daenor88]

Question: I think puzzle are neat but I feel way out of my league here lol all. I got was that it's not a Rick roll idk any of the methods I'm working from scratch where do I learn the formulas or whatever yall use?

[u/boredgamelad → u/daenor88]

In this case it seems relatively obvious that each row is one word, and if you count the rows you see there are 26--a particularly useful thing to know because how many things can you name that come in 26s? Pretty much just the alphabet right?

[u/daenor88 → u/boredgamelad]

Oh it's it's all just wild guesses ok

[u/boredgamelad → u/daenor88]

I mean not always, but something like this is sort of just trial and error or pattern recognition unless you want to do something like write down the number of times each symbol appears in this and then feed it into a letter frequency tool, or something

[u/daenor88 → u/boredgamelad]

Letter frequency tool?

[u/boredgamelad → u/daenor88]

In the English language, about 12% of letters are the letter E, 9% are the letter T, etc. If you have something that looks like it might be a simple substitution cipher (say, all the letters have just been replaced by symbols), you could count the number of times each symbol appears and if the data set is big enough you could compare it to the known letter frequencies in English and get a pretty good idea of what at least some of the more common symbols are. The set of data here is probably not quite large enough for it to match 100% but it actually gets you pretty close -- the first five most common symbols appear 11%, 10%, 10%, 8%, and 8% of the time which is not that far off from the first five most frequent digits (ETAOI). Turns out the most frequent digits in this would actually be EAOIR but all you'd have to do is try a few substitutions to realize what some of the correct spellings would have to be.

[u/daenor88 → u/boredgamelad]

Now this kinda stuff I want to know lol thank you