February’s ciphers are about love because Valentine’s Day is on February 14th. There are many types of love so don’t just think of hearts and roses. This code is called the Snail. The name may give you a hint on how to solve it. Felix has one more hint, “Start with the X.”
R | E | I | S | L | I |
E | T | H | E | R | F |
H | E | X | W | E | E |
T | R | E | H | I | Z |
E | V | O | L | S | Z |
20220223 – Love and Life
The Snail Code gets its name from how it is arranged. The code starts in the middle and wraps around in a circle until the code is finished. For example, the first word in this cipher is ‘Where’ and it looks like this
E |
| W |
R | E | H |
Felix told you to start the cipher at the X. If you wanted to make the cipher more difficult, don’t tell people where to start. Then ‘Where’ would look like this.
| W | H |
E | R | E |
The message may not fit into the grid evenly, so add a null character at the end – like the two Z’s at the end of this message.
You can take away the grid lines and the code is even more difficult.
The solution to this week’s cipher:
“Where there is love there is life.” Gandhi