As ever, please do NOT post your answers, but do say if you think you have solved the puzzle and how long it took. Solution on Monday.
Into codes? Yesterday a friend handed me this piece of paper and said that the numbers (15122 1116 96011621) contained a hidden message…. can you work it out?
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Richard Wiseman 
I think I have solved it and it took a minute.
After some reflection I got it too
I’m ashamed of my offspring. He was always a let down to us.
10 sec, so sweet
Was he gay and Australian?
Took me 2 minutes.
Easy!
This mirrors a similar one I’ve seen before
I think you should delete this comment, you’re giving people a clue.
Hmm, I think it is YOU who is doing so. That said – too easy, I just read it off the screen.
Done, as soon as i looked at the image it clicked. Easy one this week Richard
No need to consult Bletchley Park on this one.
Presumably RW will provide a puzzle for those into codes next week?
Easy and a lovely way to start the weekend.
Seconds to see how it worked, a few more to double check. Nice one.
Would you mind awfully if I didn’t..?
A couple of minutes on this one. Seconds to guess the process.
Doh! 3 Minutes… Still early for me.
got it
I’d love to, but im over here in Australia
Who exactly handed you that puzzle??
I find myself, once again, paralyzed with fear. Love that feeling.
From the numbers, no. From the illustration, almost straight away.
And no. 😉
Look, I only like you as a friend, ok!
20 seconds in Paint.Net
This is the first time I’ve got the answer as I finished reading the question.
Instantly saw it. Good one.
Took me 2 seconds to know how to solve it and then about 15 seconds to actually solve it.
Easy to see how, longer to decipher the awful handwriting!
can’t solve the last number… so i have to wait for monday,
but from the first two numbers i would say: presumably not…
ok, solved the last number too… still … no…
Well, did you oblige?
nice and preety hard for me but i am not english native speaker
Boringly easy – I worked out the transformation in a few seconds then used a single operation in an external program to produce the solution. It reminds me of 128 root e980…
i just flipped the monitor upside down against a mirror, too easy! lol
lol 😀 Clever one, Richard, thanks for that! Interesting friend you have there 😉 Instantly saw how to read the code and took, I don’t know, probably less than a minute to read it fully and be sure. Nice one 😀
Took about 10 seconds to solve. Answer is obvious in the format of the message. Hand written rather than type is the tip off.
10 seconds, handwritten is the key. You are a lucky man with a special friend 🙂
Well, maybe, if you weren’t all the way over there in England.
One or two minutes, with the help of a certain tool that I won’t name, because it’d make the puzzle easier for the others.
Is it something to do with the Pogues?
smiley face with missing teeth!
Got it, but it would be embarrassing to say how long it took me.
They don’t even look like numbers!!
I got the second half quickly, took longer to work out the first half.
10 seconds
Took me forever this week, but after reading the comments, I of course got it instantly, since the usual s decide to give the answer away. So in the spirit of honesty, I can’t say I solved it this weekbut being given the solution is just no fun
A while back Richard disabled comments completely because of this problem, is that really what people want to see happening again?
hm, html de-lousing removed my <expletive deleted> after the word usual in that
KMD
About a minute.
Fun. Took me about a minute (though I did it without the helpful tool that I suspect many people used).
Ugly. No. No. Hell no! This brings to mind a scene from the 1968 “Planet of the Apes”