me, cracking my knuckles: so this is the bloke that added those goddamn codes that i could never solve

"We wanted to do something memorable and easy for 8 years old" Me: *is 19 years old* Also me: *takes an hour to decipher one line of secret club penguin code*

Me, 9 yrs old at school: *passes PSA coded message in paper to classmate* Teacher: *sees paper being passed, takes and reads* _I see you're part of the PSA in Club Penguin..._

normal people at 3am: sleep me at 3am: *i need to consume Club Penguin lore*

I was absolutely obsessed with this code, and formed a 'secret agency' in grade school, and had a little fort (a crawlspace where we had storage and stuff) where we had a bunch our names and code written in stuff on the walls in sharpie marker. We sold that house like 7 years ago, and when it went back up for sale last month. I attended the open house and out of curiosity, went back into that crawlspace. Of course, that writing was still there, giving me extreme nostalgia. I also have some of that writing in our new house currently on a latter to the attic. I still have it memorized. Thank you for indirectly helping me form the best set of friends and memories I could have ever had, Chris!

"That was the director training you" omg

"It would delight me to know of people actually used this code to pass secret notes in class" We sure did

If a penguin called me a crab face you know I'm hitting him back with "puffle-farter"

So back in September 2006, me and two of my friends played Club Penguin every day after school. We often talked about the game during class, so one day the teacher had enough and separated us into the 3 corners of the classroom. Yes, you guessed it: the only way to communicate was to throw notes at each other, when the teacher wasn't looking. And yes, we used the secret PSA code. :) Fun fact: the very first note I wrote was coded with the PSA code too, and my friends understood it without asking anything and replied the same way. So one day, the teacher spotted us throwing the notes and took them away. After class, she questioned us. We apologized and moved on. But I quickly realized she secretly wanted to solve our code so badly. So after a few days, she said she finally solved our secret message: "What is for lunch today?" But the real message was: "Just 10 more minutes left." :D We explained the code and told her where we found it. She was amazed. She checked out Club Penguin later and found the game both educational and fun. She never bothered us anymore and she became my favorite teacher. I wonder to this day what method she used to solve it so differently, haha. Oh, and I'm 23 years old now and I still perfectly know the code. :) So thank you Chris for your hard work at Club Penguin and making my childhood 1000 times better.

What language do you speak? -English -Spanish -PSA Codes -French

I litteraly translated the texts at 4:04, it said: "CRAB-FACCE!!" "PUFFLE-FARTER!!"

oh my god. okay, time for a true story! it was 2009 and at the time, we had a pretty strict teacher who didn’t let us talk in class or sit next to our friends. so, my squad started learning the alphabet in a sign language. it wasn’t long before everyone else (and the teacher) caught up on it and learned it as well. so we needed a new way of communicating, something that no one else would understand. and that’s when we decided to start using the PSA code in notes! it was so fun, no one could never figure it out. we’re hispanic, so we had to use the letter “ñ” lots of times. and guess what? we made it up by adding a little straight line on top of the letter N code hahah. it was only after a year that Club Penguin became really popular around here and everyone else found our lil secret. even then, i remember one of my friends used to write in her diary about her crush in this code so her parents wouldn’t find out. being 8 at the time, this was surely a big part of our childhoods!

Club penguin: "we didnt want to use the pigpen cipher because it was used by the Freemasons and we didnt want people to start linking Club penguin to conspiracy theories" Neopets: *owned by scientologists at some point*

The code is simply speaking Canadian.

I totally used this code when I was younger. Though my teacher had a son who was fluent in the code too, and he got us in trouble :(

"What do I get for being a secret agent?" "You get access to a secret room!" "How big is the room?" "Only a few metres squared." "Nevermind..." "But it has a Mancala table!" "Okay, I'm sold."

I usedthis to talk to my friends during class. Thanks for that

Woah, Aunt Arctic was intended to be the Director from the beginning? Even if it wasn't set in stone, that's so cool! I always assumed it was something that began to take shape with fan theories.

I ran secret agencies as a kid and actually made my own handbook, missions, we uncovered a thief once! someone stole a glue stick and we got evidence and everything. it was so much fun and my best friend and I were the director and we actually had recruits.

No one: Not a single soul: Chris: Fine, I'll do it myself.

How has it taken me this many years to realise that Aunt Arctic is a play on words of Antarctic

Hearing the reason why numbers were closed finally gives me a sense of closure and I commend the CP staff for helping kids learn to keep their privacy

I just want to say how awesome the comments for this video have been. The stories you have been telling have been the gift that keeps on giving. It's been heartwarming and hilarious. Thank you so much everyone!

“What’s he’s saying?” “He’s- he’s talking in the PSA code!” “No!”

As someone who has been a part of the PSA since around 2009, who got to experience the transitional periods of the PSA to EPF, and the EPF’s various transformations, this is cool. Very cool. When I became an agent, I treated it like an honor. I was 8 at the time, so I took my job very seriously. I even got both DS tie-in games that introduced the EPF earlier than their debut on the main site. I remember when PH was just a pink penguin with a generic hat, as opposed to the cool design she got in later incarnations. Being a part of the agency actually gave me a sense of responsibility and community like never before. It contributed a lot to my childhood, and even today I still appreciate the lore and development that went into the whole thing. Thanks to you and the whole CP team for making it possible! - Waddle On

Every conspiracy theory is false ...or is that just what “they” want you to think? 12:31

A friend in my class asked the teacher if he could write his essay in this language. They said no.

I used this code to remember my some of my bank account passwords. Should I be saying this?

For anyone wondering the secret code at the end, it says... Every conspiracy theory is false ...or is that just what “they” want you to think?

To answer your question at the end, no. But a while back on a school trip, the coach had a fun pattern on the seats that looked oddly like the cp code. So I took it upon myself to translate the coach seat, like the young little detective and theorist I was when I was a kid, thought I was caught in a real life PSA mission and I was going to be the one to save us Turned out that the seat just had a bunch of random gobbledegook and my lil heart was shattered. But thought it was a good story so here it is 😂

As a kid my friends and I actually did memorize the code and used it regularly. It actually got me into ciphers and codes which is a big deal because I’m planning to go to college next year for cyber security and linguistics

I remember that I used to have a conspiracy theory that the director was working for Herbert, and whenever the director did something unusual, I would think: "AHA! This proves that I'm right!" I was so dissapointed when Operation Blackout revealed that it was Aunt Arctic the whole time.

i made psa secret code font on font maker on win10. now i can write secretly

Please do a video on card-jitsu! That was one of my favourite parts of Club Penguin :D

When I was a kid I thought making the Director a sweet old lady was so clever because no one would guess that. But I'd always thought you created a Nick Fury-type director character and then made Aunt Artic to be a secret identity. I never imagined you created Aunt Arctic first AND THEN decided she should be the PSA Director! You guys did such a great job with the PSA/EPF. I remember when I completed Operation Blackout and the cut scene revealed the Director's identity. I felt like I'd been trusted with extremely important confidential knowledge. Aunt Arctic asks the player to keep her secret, and I did. I never told anyone the whole time I played the game, nor did I ever see anyone else doing it. Looking back on it, when Operation Blackout launched you guys must've been really nervous kids would go into crowded rooms and ruin the surprise for everyone else by saying "Aunt Arctic is the Director" through the chat. But thankfully, I don't remember that happening

When you said “Freemasons”, I got super happy because my dad told me grandfather was in the Freemasons. I learned about it from my dad on a trip to Washington DC. Didn’t think I’d think about that story again today.

Everybody gangsta till the foreign kid starts speaking PSA code

4:03 *Penguin 1 (who i named Dora):* Crabface!! *Penguin 2 (who i named Don):* Puffle farter!!

I will never forget the PSA missions, they were some of the best online games I ever played. They were one of the few examples of story driven experiences in Club Penguin. Those games were so good that they could have been packaged and sold as actual video games but me and countless other players got to experience them for free which was so awesome!

When the director was finally revealed in Blackout Operation, it was one of the best moments in my life sjksdjks

true story, me and my childhood friend used to hang out and, sometimes, as we were leaving, one would hand the other a note with the club penguin code on it. We'd always spend forever translating, and it'd always say something like "you're smelly" or "bet this took you forever to translate". We'd go home and, about an hour later, the landline would ring and he'd tell me if he cracked my message, or vice versa

Also... CRAB FACE and PUFFLE FARTER. I'm totally using those in the future.

I was an avid Club Penguin fan for YEARS, I played it everyday, did the PSA missions, and was overall obsessed with it. My aunt's birthday and christmas gifts to me each year were renewals on my membership. It had such a positive impact on my life, so I just wanted to say thank you for working on it and implementing my favorite part of the website :)

I own Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force for the Nintendo DS. This game was ALL about being a secret agent, and I have SO much play time on it. Being a secret agent was one of my favorite things to do on CP. Thank you for creating such fond memories for me 🥰

I clearly remember using it as a funny thing to do with my best friend who also liked the PSA codes in Club penguins, so I made two papers with the codes for me and him and wanted to plan it at the end of the period at school and oh boy at the last 10 minutes, the teacher noticed us passing notes and said “why are you passing notes to each other and what does it say?” I wanted to laugh so hard when she said what the codes meant and my friend said that “we are just doing something.” The teacher was staring at the codes for like 3 seconds and moved us away together so we don’t pass out notes again. Ok not gonna lie but that was worth it and can’t believe that I did that. I hope you enjoyed this Chris! :)

You should have used the heffley-jefferson cypher: yourpa dadpa smellspa likepa a womanpa

You revealing that Aunt Arctic was the director the whole time would've blown my 8 year old mind

I remember when Aunt Arctic was revealed as the director. My ten-year-old mind was BLOWN!!

Solving the code was so easy for me, since I had a PSA handbook that I read religiously

As someone who grew up on club penguin, I can confirm that I indeed used the CP secret language to pass notes to my best friend! Sadly I don't recall what we were saying to each other, but I might have some of the messages around still, since they were passed through a notebook. If I ever find that said notebook I know I will have a lot of fun decoding what we were saying in math class though. Cheers from Portugal!

Oh my lord ive been in club penguin since original room already whaaat

when ya mess up your violin 2:33

I used to use this code all the time!! It eventually inspired me to go and make an alphabet of my own, and now I'm working on creating a whole new language! Thank you, Chris, for all the memories and the inspiration. I didn't know Aunt Arctic was planned to be the Director from the beginning - that eventually being revealed in the game was mind-blowing!

2:33 me getting the notification for this video

7:37 this is the greatest KZfaq video I’ve ever seen

it’s very satisfying to know that aunt arctic was always planned as the director. i remember all the theories as a kid, and when it was confirmed, i was left wondering if it was planned all along or just the developers doing it as a nod to all the theories going around. i’m really glad to know it was the former, and people just happened to pick up on it!

The PSA secret code was such a valuable component in CP history and made the PSA missions so much more interesting. I love how Aunt Arctic was just meant to be the Director. I didn't realise the sunglasses secret in the newspaper was initially unattached to her being the Director, but that makes it even cooler. Thanks a lot for sharing, Chris! I hope that one day we will gain some insight into the PSA missions and the stories behind them. That would be awesome!

Man! The memories here! I really did use the CP PSA code to write messages back and forth to my older sister, who i played CP with all the time. We used to bond playing it and Webkinz together! We never did use it to pass notes in school because she was 4 grades above me, but when we were at home we would write each other random codes like "I was here" or "Greetings earthlings" and stuff like that. I was terrible at remembering the code itself so i would ACTUALLY log on to the site, go to the HQ, enter a mission, and use the decoder to read what it said. Also. I never played every PSA mission as a kid because i stopped playing around 2009, but Aunt Arctic being the secret undercover commissioner BLEW MY MIND! Now i really do feel like a penguin conspiracy theorist.

I heard of a kid using morse code to transfer answers to his friends on tests

The timing of this was so ironic for me. I'm in 8th grade (beginning of school year) and about a few weeks ago me and my friends decided to make the code a thing again outside of club penguin. I used it in 5th grade, forgot about it, and then a new student came in with the code all over his arm and I instantly knew it was club penguin. And aparently I was the only one who even guessed is how big of a CP fan I was. In fact, I still occasionally hop on CPR for the fun of it. Thank you so much for the code. Literally the factor that made me know I'd instantly get along with the new kid, what made us make our group. Granted, we do call it a cult.. just because it's better when getting reactions from others, but seriously club penguin always has been and will be the bomb.

Who else remembers when the PSA Base was just a blackboard and a Manacala table? I know it's in the video, but who remembers BEING there?

Nooo don’t tell this I use this as a secret code with my friends I actually pass notes using thissss I have multiple things written on my walls with this, although I changed the 27th character to an exclamation mark bc I didn’t know what it was

So you’re the man behind my childhood... Thank you, sincerely. You made me genuinely happy with your work on this game. I truly appreciate you. (I pretty much know the code off by heart, I’m a little rusty but I’m pretty good)

4:04 The penguin on the left said: CRABFACE!! 4:07 The penguin on the right said: PUFFLE-FARTER!!

I'm now 19, 9 years ago me and most of my friends discovered Club Penguin, provoquing a trend in school. Our class was at the center of it. We knew everything about CP til the point of, yes, we started **passing messages with the PSA code** during classes, outside classes, even trying to create new codes inspired on the CP one. I wish i had kept them. We actually created a secret agency, me and 5 more friends. I'm actually proud of it tbh. We printed our club penguins cards, platificated them, created some agency cards with our penguins photo on it and used only our code (and sometime the PSA code). It was all inspired on Club Penguin. I remember those days as the best of my childhood. I can't thank u enough for making it.

for the swearing thing at 4:02 The blue penguin says: "CRABFACE!!" And the orange penguin says: "PUFFLE-FARTER!!"

I remember specifically having an obsession with the PSA, and also the Jetpack mission. I used to pass notes with my friends telling them to meet me at the trees at breaktimes so we could go on secret missions where we spied on the other kids (or where we did the card karate and learnt the powers of the gem in the middle), and whenever we had a creative writing task in class, I'd write about myself as a secret agent. I'd sign my name after these with the code. I was ecstatic when the teachers didn't understand it.

So I found this video on the 19th Sept. 2019 and I texted my best friend that I used to play Club Penguin with. I said "Hey, did you ever struggle to try to decode stuff in club penguin?" or something like that. She was like "Yeah, that code was the death of me". We decided we would finally learn the code so we could use it in real life. Almost 2 days later, we are not sending each other texts on WhatsApp but pictures of code that we have written containing our messages. Thank you for sprucing up my notifications Mr. Hendricks

I tried to send a note to my friend in class using the code when I was in primary 4 but they never understood it and when I told them it was from club penguin their response was “Oh yeah, sorry I only play Moshi Monsters”

These videos are SO fascinating. Club Penguin was such a huge part of my childhood so much so that I literally play cprewritten every once and a while for the nostalgia. I’m 19 now and still have as much love for this game as I did when I was 9! It must be neat seeing younger players now older such as the rewritten staff keeping the game alive and nearly identical to how it was 2007-2012. CP also taught me how to type really fast without looking at the keyboard ahahaha

I specifically remember passing secret agent code notes with my friends in 2nd grade

Well I was homeschooled so I didn't have class to pass notes around in, but I remember leaving notes outside the my siblings doors in the code so my parents couldn't read it. I also had memorized the characters in my name so I could cryptically make my existance known in random places.

Great video as always! When the director's secret identity was reveled, I always wondered if you guys planned it from the start or not, and I assumed you didn't. Even prior to the reveal many penguins theorized it was Aunt Arctic with the shady glasses and the fact some secret messages were hidden in the newspaper sometimes, so I always thought it was just fan service. It's amazing to me that you guys kept this lore piece in absolute secret, without dropping any clues or nodes, for 6 full years!! I did pass notes with the Tic Tac Toe code in class, but only in middle school/highschool with other Cp fans as a nostalgic manner. I still think it's a well made code for the same reasons you mentioned in the video! One last thing - could you maybe talk in a future video about the grey shack at the corner of the ski hill? Lance said in a stream that you wanted it to be like a irl-connected hub where you could ask the mods stuff or something, do you know anything else about it?

I remember when my niece and I were kids, we decided one day that we were gonna become secret agents in real life, since we loved it in CP so much. Obviously, we never ended up going on any missions or anything, hehe. Also, as a lover of making fun of stupid conspiracy theories, 7:36 made me laugh like a little kid Edit: Also, that Aunt Arctic being the director was such a fun surprise when it was revealed. I remember wondering if it was planned from the beginning or if it was thrown in there for Operation Blackout. It’s so cool to see how it came to be!

I passed notes to my friends in primary school using these codes, we had the cipher etched onto the table and whenever the teacher intercepted our *extremely important* messages they'd get really confused but still tell us off

If I remember correctly I learned how to decode the messages because I saw the 3 tick tack toe grids scribbled in my sister's note book. I never googled it, because I didn't even think I could or even needed to. It was like this secret piece of knowledge my sister passed down to me.

I was homeschooled but I always loved the psa code so I used it to keep secret messages from my siblings. I can't remember any specific examples but I know it happened. Also it's mad cool to learn the history behind one of my favorite small details of the game that built my childhood!

honestly im really thankful for you you are my whole childhood :)

this guy is incredibly talented. He's such a great composer, artist, animator... I mean you seriously do a lot of stuff I want to be like you

The secret missions and secret code aspect was one of my favorite parts of the game so it's nice seeing how its made in the first place.

I just played the elite force game for the first time so I actually had quite a few questions about the code, thanks for answering them! I always loved the missions, they really did do exactly what you and the team wanted in regards to adding depth and secrets to the world, and I kind of wish we'd gotten more of them. It is absolutely hilarious that you considered a code associated with the Freemasons, you're completely right that the Internet would have had a field day with it. Also loved hearing the stuff about Aunt Arctic. I wasn't there for the official reveal, but I remember watching youtube videos about Club Penguin secrets/theories as a kid and discovering the newspaper trick for the first time. Would love it if you did a video about Halloween, especially the music. I know you didn't the Haunted Disco music, but I still love that song would be cool if you talked about it a bit, and/or how the music for the parties changed over the years. Thanks for all your videos, I really enjoy them!

I use leave notes using this format all the time in class. I’d pass them around, I’d leave them hidden at school then leave clues to their locations. I would even write them in random obscure places I’d visit around America on vacations. However, I used the original code of two #’s and two x’s. Still, this code from the game would always be on my mind when doing this. I would always sign the messages with a ※ symbol. Even today in college, I still occasionally leave the messages on the white boards for people to decode (with the decoder drawn) and put the ※ at the bottom. Thank you for being such a big part of my childhood!!

It was middle school when one of my best friends came up to the group saying we need to stop talking so loud because some other bullies of ours were starting to make fun of us in any classes we had with them so we started using the original code you thought of using (I still use that old code to this day with family and certain friends) and the bullying got a bit worse just because we would pass notes but they wouldn't understand... well they told the teacher and we got reprimanded for using codes they didn't understand... it was great! We moved to using the PSA after one of us lost our transcription of letters to symbols and the vice principal got it. That part sucked just because we were all so use to using the other system over PSA... but we managed to get notes passed through classes. It's been years since I used the PSA language but it made my 8th grade year a whole lot more fun.

I love how the little penguin in the animation said crabface and the other penguin said puffle farter.

After you mentioned the Illuminati I couldn't stop laughing. Thanks for sharing the story behind this code! My heart fills with joy knowing how much love and care you put into the content of the Club Penguin world over the years! I really don't see a lot of that in modern games now. :D I really appreciate you making these behind the scenes related Club Penguin videos for us! it's really cool from an outsider's perspective.

I became a Club Penguin fanatic learning the code by heart and doing all the missions when they came out following since the empty room opened. My friends never learned it so I was using it by myself but it got me into learning some ciphers. So in that respect, I didn't get to use it in notes. I did, on the other hand, try to take Card Jitsu out into the real world, drawing my own cards and creating starter and booster packs for my friends. That was so many years ago. Club Penguin was a big part of my life back then.

My friend and I had this thing totally memorized. We had it so down that we could glance at a note passed in class and know exactly what it said

I was always obsessed with Club Penguin, some friends from school introduced me to it when I was eight or nine when I saw them writing notes in the code, eventually my sister and I started writing notes at home in the code too, it always had a special place in my heart and the entire mystery of who the Director was and the revelation of Aunt Artic blew my mind as a I grew up, I dreamed of working at Club Penguin when I was younger so it's really awesome and intriguing to hear these behind the scenes stories about it now!

Oh my, the good old primary school memories :') The secret agent stuff was my favourite part about club penguin, I was obsessed with it as a kid. I literally did an entire project on how to make the spy phone xd And YES I did pass notes with the cp code! And i also remember me and my friends attempted making our own secret code and sign language and the teachers being super confused whenever we did it in class 😂

I'm so glad I found this channel not only is it a huge nostalgia trip but I also learn cool facts about the game that made my childhood

I just want to say. I KNEW Aunt Arctic was the Director, and sent a message about it probably five years before Operation: Blackout. Man, you and I were on the same wavelength, at least insofar as we could be. Nobody has ever believed me that I predicted it.

I loved playing the agent missions on Club Penguin. It was one of my go two games. So when you brought up the code I was immediately full of nostalgia. I would ramble nonsense on how I would day and night make theories of the code. I would talk to my friends and school about it. I would come to school pretending I found out what all the codes meant and we would write stuff in the code together. One day I will come to school telling them I found out what it meant and for the rest of the day we would communicate in that code without knowing what it meant. The teacher would usually get mad at us but it was still funny. What amazing memories. ^.^

I and my brother played the DS game for about 2 years before getting CP accounts in June 2010 (for mine) and Oct 2010 for my brother. so we Played a lot of EPF stuff, when we got CP accounts we quickly got into the EPF and role played with other penguins etc. we bought a lot of the CP books and got one that was a EPF hand book, I wrote down all the code into a note book and for a little bit we pretended to be agents even at school for a few months we wrote a few coded messages but it didn't last long. we kept played and slowly stopped playing come 2014-15

I did send messages, I ended up loving gravity falls, but my friend didn’t know the code, so I wrote normally to them, and it ended fast.

Dude when I figured out this code I felt like a dang genius as a kid... despite my somehow failing grades

I love learning codes and ciphers like morse code, braille, even the galactic language. My friend loves learning them too so we can blink in answers in class tests and such. This is a perfect one to learn as well! Very obscure in its origins and you can disguise it as an actual tic tac toe match. Definitely gonna be learning this one by heart. Easy to learn too, just knowing that it’s in order top to bottom blank to x to o means you don’t need a chart to learn it either. Edit: wrote this right before seeing someone else’s very similar story. Small world I guess

I still remember how the code works without even thinking about it. I used to write it in my journals to read to myself in class and used it to talk to my friends and brothers when I didn't want others to find anything out. Of course, I was usually the only one who could read it, but there were times when I was able to keep codes to myself for important reasons (like passwords and telling my brothers jokes pre-meme era). It's a great idea to this day, and I'm happily surprised that you basically invented the code.

When was just a little girl I asked my father how to solve this code and he brought me his book of francmason (idk how to say it in English) he told me it was based in the code of the book "it quite different but it works" then he helped me finding the diferentes and using the code you created ; and now hearing you confirmed that theory of mine, I ran to my dad crying he was right "after all these years we were right". I remember I used the code to comunicate with him and my uncle when we talked about serious issues till now a days. Thanks to you, I formed a strong bond with them :)

I recently discovered your channel and this video, by recommendation on a Discord server and remembering when I played Club Penguin when I was 8-10 years old, and since then, I have started learning to write in the EPF code and leave little sticky notes placed throughout my university.

Club Penguin was a major part of my childhood and I'm so glad that I've now seen the face of one of the people behind a major part of it.