A strange letter delivered by anAnimal Crossingvillager had one player stumped until the community offered an explanation.Animal Crossing: Wild Worldhas many ways to interact with villagers, and one of them is through letters. Players can send and receive letters to and from their favorite villagers. Sometimes, like in the case of one particular player, these letters can leave fans scratching their heads in confusion.
“Any explanation for this one?” asks Reddit user andAnimal Crossingfan,CryptographerOk1267. The letter had been given to them by Patty, a peppy cow villager, and depicts a series of seemingly nonsensical letters. The note looks almost like players are supposed to fill in the blanks. It contains the following letters,oddly spaced out and scattered across all four lines of the paper: “I c n n u O O a t L m e C.“The bottom text reads simply “Reply by tomorrow!”
When read from left to right, the letter makes no sense. However,reading it across from the top to the bottom and from left to right reveals its hidden message: “I am cute,” followed by a face with eyebrows and a nose making an open-mouthed “C” expression.
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This odd letter inAnimal Crossing: Wild Worldsuddenly makes a lot more sense once it becomes apparent what to look for. Reddit userNullifiedPresenceis the one to officially decipher the letter in the comment section, stating, “I believe it says ‘I am cute’ on the left and the right is a face.” A few comments took note of the original poster’s username and make jabs at it. “I gotta ask - are you sure you’re a cryptographer?!” asksstarinmelbourne, to whichKey-Pickle5609responds, “They didn’t say they’re a good cryptographer.”
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The original Redditor who posted the image had sometakeaways from the experience: “Lesson learned: LOOK at the bigger picture, ALWAYS (I read the letters standalone as words, and was confused).” They note that they hadn’t even realized the theme of the letter, which is a cutesy light blue color with little butterflies at the corners, hinting at its general content. Being able tolook at the message from a different perspectivemight have helped them to understand it sooner.
Animal Crossing Has Many Other Odd Letters
From Existential Dilemmas To Just Plain Weird
The formatting of the letter from Patty becomes clear once you remember that Japanese is often traditionally written vertically rather than horizontally. But this message from Patty is not the only weird letter thatAnimal Crossingvillagers have sent to players.Many other strange letters have wound up in players' in-game letter boxes.Some are silly, like the letter shared byinfernoseph26on Reddit, where the villager wishes the player a happy birthday, then devolves into what sounds like an older person trying to figure out technology for the first time.
Other notes from villagersdelve into more unsettling territory, like a letter where the villager asks if the player likes the letter’s smell, since they “dipped it in gravy then licked the gravy off” and sent it to the player. The oddities of these characters contribute to them feeling incredibly real, especially in older games from theAnimal Crossingfranchise, likeAnimal Crossing: Wild World. After all, who doesn’t have that one strange friend who sends the most unhinged texts?
