Except they didn't actually solve it, they just suggested it was a book cipher, which was a known strategy.

Yes, imagine it's a book cipher and then you hand it to a tool which famously has had every book in existence cleaved apart and fed into it.

Apparently neither found it worth pursuing, and just phoned it in.

> “…leider gerade keine zeit das nachzuschauen.“

And it's not like it was a load of detail either, it's a comment on a blog 16 years ago.

You don't get points for throwing out a possibility for the type of cipher, you get points for solving it.