Revisiting A Voynich Prize

[Mark Knowles]

A valid solution to me, would give a deciphered text that is reproducible, verifiable, logical and comprehensible.

I think we need to get better at handling the non-solutions. It seems to me that the many non-solutions often were arrived at through a similar methodology and lead to a similar solution structure. So it should be easy to identify a given new solution as fitting this general pattern. I suspect that the true solution is going to be quite different in the methodology by which it was arrived at and the final solution structure. (Often there tend to be significant degrees of freedom in interpretation by the decipherer amongst the non-solutions through mechanisms like multiple possible source languages/dialects.)

A better way of addressing non-solutions would reduce the amount of time wasted on addressing these solutions.

I myself designed a test and I am sure more could be done to further that approach. There may also be other ways we can easily dismiss non-solutions.

This would mean that even if there are more non-solutions submitted in response to a prize then we should be able to handle them much more easily.