Secret code

[spoonrider]

11631333313426154215651132145512112611321315146112 3615112516114142


OK, so recently I made up a way of sending coded messages and I was just wondering how difficult it would be for someone to crack.
So let's say, for example, that you are in the army and you caught a suspected spy and you found a slip of paper with those numbers on it.

(There is a space in the number near the end that looks like this '112 361'. That space is not meant to be there, but I can't edit it out for some reason. The number above is one continuous number.)

[LLapp]

OMG, yet another post from somebody who joined the site the same day, asking us to crack a coded message for them! Spoonrider, do you work for an agency? Are you a terrorist? Our decoding fee varies, depending.

[spoonrider]

Well I figured that I could kill two birds with one stone. First of all I could get an idea as to the efficacy of my coded message thing and I could also give the people here a good brainteaser of indeterminate difficulty. My first thought though was to seek out puzzle enthusiast people, that's what lead me here.

[LLapp]

Welcome, then. Could you add spaces to separate the words, or are spaces encoded also?

[spoonrider]

Lol, would you ask that question to the spy? Sorry, but I can't give any hints of any kind, because that would defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to achieve here. Well at least no hints for right now.

I understand that this may seem to be a bit tedious or redundant, but believe me this is actually a worthwhile puzzle thing.

[nedzeppelin1453]

Hi, this looks like a great puzzle.
Is the space between the digits two thirds of the way through the message intentional and part of the puzzle?

[nedzeppelin1453]

I've solved it

[spoonrider]

The space between the numbers about two-thirds the way down is not intentional. I don't know why it added one there. Before I posted the original post, I copied the number and pasted it into notepad, and then I clicked post, and then I noticed the space between the numbers, so I tried to correct it with an edit, but the space still remained. I know that I didn't add the space in because I checked it in notepad and there was no space. So maybe there is a limit on word sizes or something. Now that I think about it, I'll go and add an edit to the original post stating that that space was unintentional.

[LLapp]

I've solved it

What does it say?

[ernests]

22152626335541343333323623141536

[LLapp]

22152626335541343333323623141536

. . . and how do you pronounce that?

[ernests]

How spoonrider's cipher works (hidden by white text, in case you want to avoid it)


Put the letters in a 6x6 grid with a to f in row 1, g to l in row 2, etc. Then each letter is encoded to a two digit number according to its position in the grid. So a = 11, b=12, c=13,...g=21, h=22,...z=52. To encode a message, change all letters to their corresponding number, encode the blanks as any of 53 to 66, then concatenate all these two-digit numbers into one long string of digits.