[P.O.E.]

I did a letter substitution and got this:
abcdef gbadah djcckd lmndpc ledleq rdrbls sdmhad pcdfmt ufmgcn

(parsed into 6 letter “words”)

A dictionary attack on a reverse substitution (a for z, b for y, etc.) gave me the word “reward” spelled backwards and the word “there” or “where”.

Still puzzling......

[sten]

i would imagine the 6 symbol breaks are arbitrary

the 3rd and 4th symbols are the most frequently used, followed by 1, 11, and 12.

frequency count:

numeric	alpha	frequency
1	a	4
2	b	3
3	c	6
4	d	10
5	e	3
6	f	3
7	g	2
8	h	2
9	j	1
10	k	2
11	l	4
12	m	4
13	n	2
14	p	2
15	q	1
16	r	2
17	s	2
18	t	1

btw, what happened to 'i' and 'o' in your key?