I have attached the ASP as a pdf file. I made one mistake in the file. The first letter should be lower case. There are only 3 capital letters. The collection instructions are within the puzzle. The prize is$100,000 after taxes.

It doesn't seem to be a straight modular cipher. If you check the frequency counts, each letter pops up within 5% of every other letter, between 1900 and 2k times each. If you check double letter frequency, it's even worse. Every letter has between 50 and 100 doubles.

It's too clean, there are either fillers or it gets translated to number then back to letter. If it's fillers, then there's a hopping algorithm. Skip every 2/3/4/5 letters, diagonal, vertical, backwards, mixed with a modular cipher.

Maybe playfair cipher or vigenere cipher?

The things I know how to try are likely too simple. What's the source of the puzzle?

I think it may be an image in some analog form. A decade or so there was a fad where you stared at a poster and eventually could see something, well some people could but I never was able to.

I have some summary data along the lines of most frequently occurring letter and pair. I will try to post this tonight.

It's gonna be solved by an employee of the N.S.A.

I have some summary data along the lines of most frequently occurring letter and pair. I will try to post this tonight.

I thought of copy/pasting it, but didn't see any significance. They're all more or less even.

A decade or so there was a fad where you stared at a poster and eventually could see something, well some people could but I never was able to.

I still have a book of those. Cross your eyes then space out a little bit, and they'll eventually lock onto the right depth. It's like when you look at a door screen and it looks closer than it really is because your eyes are slightly crossed. Your brain thinks your eyes are looking at the right square, when in fact they're different squares.

If that's the case you could use geometry to transpose the letters. The math is beyond my experience. If you mean actual visual image, there is barely enough detail for a single word in aggregate. And if there are words, the frequency counts would be closer. I think it's one of the ciphers I mentioned, or some other advanced one that fills in gaps with underused letters.

The puzzle was created by a friend of mine with a PhD in computer programming. I do not know the solution but it should be solvable by a high school senior. The only other hint I got from him was a story about a substitute teacher who showed stereo pictures to a high school class using a tabletop viewer one looks down through.

The puzzle format should be on a broadside included in a newspaper. I could not find a paper size large enough to fit it all on one page.

I wouldn't know where to start with a puzzle like this but I'll be watching to see what people come up with.

Here is some information I developed about the puzzle.

Here is some information given to me including a hint of some kind.

I think part of it may be a map because the last line is only five letters which spell miles.