Answer: Binary Secret #50

The secret message is:

JET

The decoded message: JET
Every row decoded.

Row by row

RowBulbsAdd the ‘on’ numbersCharacter
1010108 + 2 = 10J
2001014 + 1 = 5E
31010016 + 4 = 20T

Crack it with Python

Python can do the adding for you. int(code, 2) reads a string of 1s and 0s as a binary number. Then the program finds that letter in the alphabet. It takes away 1 because Python counts the letters from 0.

secret = [
    "01010",
    "00101",
    "10100",
]
letters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
message = ""
for code in secret:
    number = int(code, 2)
    message = message + letters[number - 1]
print(message)

When you run it, it prints:

JET

<strong>Beep says:</strong> Want to write your own secret message? Turn it around: ord() turns a character into its number, and format(number, “08b”) writes the number as 8 binary digits. Beep boop!