Card Cipher (Solved)

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Congrats to Rafael to be the first one to solve this cipher!

Good day, afternoon, or night. I believe that I have solved the challenge, but I could be wrong.

The code consists of the numbers and the suits of cards, but clubs are not clubs. In reality, they’re clovers, another word for the same drawing. With this in mind, we have SHERLOCK. Why four kings? What does that mean?

After this, I was puzzled. What are the four kings? The clue (2♠️ 3♦️ 6♣️ 5♥️ 3♣️ 5♥️), the clue that answers how to translate this. PARROT is the answer, but why? There are two 5 of hearts. So why is one an R, and the other a T? If you have two cards with the same numbers, you subtract 1 from the number. So, the first 5 becomes 5 – 1, which is 4. Four in hearts corresponds to R. That’s it. If you subtract one for every king, you get 9 instead of 13. But that’s not the complete puzzle.

In this final step, we have to use “king” instead of the suit. When we count the occurrences of “king” in the word, we have 9 instances of “K.” So, SHERLOCK is the first answer.

After all this, i notice that “KINGKINGKINGK”, have K in the final, i just lose time breaking the head.

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All letters are based on suit, with the exception of King, that’s why I make it stands out and the only common between all kings are the letter K.

The first 5♥️ was actually a typo, which supposes to be 4♥️. Terribly sorry for this unprofessional mistake.