| Image | Voter | Winner | Loser | Reason |
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 | Alex Trebek | Linear B | Voynich Manuscript | Linear B is deciphered and reveals fascinating insights into ancient Greek culture, while the Voynich Manuscript remains an unsolved mystery. |
 | David Foster Wallace | Linear B | Kryptos Sculpture | Linear B is the ancient linguistic Rosetta Stone that cracked open a whole civilization's secret codes, and that's just too cool for school. |
 | Carl Sagan | Linear B | Kryptos Sculpture | Linear B is like the Rosetta Stone for ancient Greek scripts, while Kryptos is still keeping us all guessing. |
 | Lonnie Johnson | Linear B | Beale Ciphers | Linear B gets the win because it unlocked secrets of ancient Greece, while Beale Ciphers are still ghosting us with unsolved mysteries. |
 | Leonardo da Vinci | Linear B | Zodiac Killer | Linear B is a groundbreaking script that unlocked secrets of ancient Greece, while the Zodiac Killer just left us with creepy, unsolved riddles. |
 | Charles Darwin | Linear B | Toynbee Tiles | Linear B is like the OG script that unlocked the secrets of ancient Greek life, while Toynbee Tiles are more of a modern mystery vibe. |
 | Klaus Teuber | Linear B | Zodiac Killer | Decoding Linear B was way cooler 'cause it unlocked secrets of ancient Greek civilization, while the Zodiac Killer is just a creepy mystery we could do without. |
 | Nerds | Linear B | Toynbee Tiles | Linear B's the OG script that unlocked the mysteries of Mycenaean Greece, while Toynbee Tiles are cool but more like street art easter eggs. |
 | Guido van Rossum | Bacon's Cipher | Linear B | Bacon's Cipher is way cooler for nerdy secret messages, while Linear B is more about ancient bureaucracy. |
| Klaus Teuber | Linear B | Kryptos Sculpture | Linear B's decipherment unlocked a whole era of ancient history, while Kryptos is still just a fancy brain teaser. |
 | Dr. Frederick Frankenstein | Linear B | Kryptos Sculpture | Linear B is ancient and mysterious, just like a Frankenstein creation, whereas Kryptos is still an unsolved puzzle but doesn't have that same historical pizzazz. |
 | Nikola Tesla | Bacon's Cipher | Linear B | As an inventor fascinated by codes, Bacon's Cipher is intriguing with its clever use of binary to conceal messages, like an electrical circuit hiding its true function. |
 | Socrates | Linear B | Voynich Manuscript | Linear B's been decoded, giving us solid insights into ancient Greek, while the Voynich Manuscript is still just a mysterious doodle book. |
 | Andy Weir | Linear B | Phaistos Disc | Linear B wins because it was deciphered and gave us a ton of insight into Mycenaean Greek civilization, unlike the mysterious and undeciphered Phaistos Disc. |
| Alex Trebek | Toynbee Tiles | Linear B | While Linear B is a treasure of ancient linguistics, Toynbee Tiles are a modern urban mystery that just hits differently with their enigmatic, street-art vibes. |
 | Neal Stephenson | Linear B | Zodiac Killer | Linear B unlocks ancient Greek mysteries, a far bigger brain teaser than a killer's taunts. |
| Klaus Teuber | Linear B | Kryptos Sculpture | Linear B is the OG ancient script that actually got deciphered, showing off some mad linguistics skills, unlike Kryptos which is still keeping everyone guessing. |
 | Marie Curie | Linear B | Phaistos Disc | Linear B is deciphered and gives us a peek into ancient Greek life, while the Phaistos Disc is still a mystery, like unsolved science! |
 | Cliff Clavin | Linear B | Beale Ciphers | Well, ya see, Linear B is the winner here 'cause it was actually deciphered, unlike the Beale Ciphers, which're still giving folks headaches tryin' to crack 'em. |
| Marie Curie | Enigma Machine | Linear B | The Enigma Machine is like the superstar of cryptography, cracking it led to major advancements in WWII and set the stage for modern computing. |
 | Richard P Feynman | Linear B | Bacon's Cipher | Linear B is the ancient script that cracked the code of early Greek civilization, while Bacon's Cipher is just a fun way to hide messages in text. |
 | Pliny the Elder | Enigma Machine | Linear B | The Enigma Machine is the bee's knees for its role in complex cryptography and pivotal wartime impact, which makes it cooler than Linear B's deciphered ancient scripts. |
| Charles Darwin | Linear B | Toynbee Tiles | Linear B is like the OG script that cracked open the mysteries of ancient Greece, while Toynbee Tiles are just some funky street art with a cult following. |
| Guido van Rossum | Linear B | Voynich Manuscript | Linear B gets the nod because we decoded it and it unravelled real history whereas the Voynich Manuscript is still just a big 'what the heck is this?' mystery. |
| Neal Stephenson | Enigma Machine | Linear B | The Enigma Machine is cooler because it was a mechanical cipher machine that changed the course of World War II, whereas Linear B is just an ancient script that took us forever to decipher. |
 | Kurt Vonnegut | Toynbee Tiles | Linear B | Toynbee Tiles are like a mysterious, urban art project that makes you question reality, which is way cooler than deciphering old scripts, man. |