Treasure Chest Solution

How It Works

Walkthrough:

At its core, this is a substitution cipher. The key should be clued off the text in the message, "precious metals and jewels". The colors go as follows:

Blue: Sapphire

Red: Garnet

Green: Emerald

Clear: Diamond

Silver: Silver

Gold: Gold

Copper: Copper

Each color has pieces in the shapes that represent its name.

One possible solution path:

* Notice that copper and sapphire have two Ps, identify P
* Notice that Diamond has 2 Ds (and that that shape is shared with emerald and gold), identify D
* Notice that G is in Gold and Garnet and nothing else, identify G
* Notice that O is shared between Diamond, Gold, and Copper, identify O
* Notice that L is only letter remaining in Gold, identify L
* Notice that E appears twice in Emerald (and also appears in everything remaining but diamond), identify E
* Notice that A is in sapphire, garnet, diamond, and emerald, identify A
* Notice that M is shared between only emerald and diamond, identify M
* Notice that R is the only remaining letter in emerald, identify R
* Notice that C is the only remaining letter in copper, identify C
* Notice that N is shared between Garnet and Diamond, identify N
* Notice that T is the only remaining letter in garnet, identify T
* Notice that I is the only remaining letter in diamond, identify I
* Notice that S is shared between Sapphire and Silver, identify S
* Notice that H is the only remaining character in Sapphire, identify H
* Notice that V is the only remaining character in Silver, identify V

The mapping of letters:

LetterFreqSymbol
A4Donut
B0
C1Octagon
D4Heart
E6Moon
F0
G2Square
H1Trapezoid
I3Chevron
J0
K0
L36pt Star
M2Triangle
N2Plus
O3Pentagon
P4Circle
Q0
R55pt Star
S2Hexagon
T1House
U0
V1Diamond
W0
X0
Y0
Z0

When they decode the cipher, they can read the symbols on the enclosed note and get "TOENTERDECLAREMEGAMILLIONS", giving them MEGA MILLIONS, the answer.