Borderlands players cracked a secret cipher to find 'the most valuable SHiFT code we've ever made'

When Gearbox rocked up to PAX West to , they didn't give away too much information about the upcoming looter-shooter. They did give something else away, however, as our siblings at reported—dice cards that contained a secret message. Each one had a series of up and down arrows surrounding a picture of a D20, and when , the internet's sleuths went to work.

It didn't take long for someone to figure it out. Specifically, . "It's a binary code", he explained. "Up triangles are 1. Down triangles are O. There are 29 sequences and each sequence is 8 digits. Then you convert the binary to decimal and then to ASCII."

Which revealed this: SXFBT-39953-J33TT-3T333-KSHW6. That's a Shift code you can redeem in multiple Borderlands games, rewarding you with 50 golden keys for each one, or 50 skeleton keys in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. If you redeem it in Borderlands 3, you also get 10 diamond keys. As , "This is the most valuable SHiFT code we've ever made, FYI."

Borderlands 4 is currently scheduled for a 2025 release. Let's all just .