20230614 – All Work
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230614 – All Work The Eye Chart Cipher In this cipher the words are written in a straight line and then arranged as a triangle. Beginning with one letter, then two, then three, keeping the triangle shape. To solve this cipher, write the letters in a line and break them […]
20230607 – Talent
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230607 – Talent Key Word Code F S F R P E P N N X S P I B K S S M H K M V E M V S M N I P X The Key Word Code is based on a word agreed upon in advance […]
20230531 — Ending
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230531 — Ending Edgar Allen Poe was a famous student of cryptography. Poe wrote an essay, “A Few Words on Secret Writing” in which he offered a substitution cipher. Felix has adapted Poe’s cipher to the keys on a computer keyboard. ; > . ) [ ? ] [ : […]
20230524 – Make it Happen
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230524 – Make it Happen This week’s message is written in Morse Code. Morse Code encodes text as a series of dots and dashes or dits and dahs. Around 1837, Samuel Morse, one of the inventors of the telegraph, developed a code for sending messages over the telegraph. His code […]
20230517 – Halfway There
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230517 – Halfway There Snail Code 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 ‘Believe” and it looks like this: […]
20230510 – How you finish
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230510 – How you finish The Reverse Letter Code In this code the letters are separated into two letter segments. Don’t worry about the end or beginning of words. Then each two-letter segment is reversed. Gift would be gi ft, then ig tf. To decode the message, you re-reverse the […]
20230503 – Make It Happen
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230503 – Make It Happen Keyboard Cipher This week’s cipher is called the keyboard cipher because it uses the letters on a keyboard to make the code. Find the letter you want to write and use the letter to the right of it. If you want to write PLAY, your […]
20230426 — Hope Springs
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230426 — Hope Springs The Hidden Message Code In this message you read every third word to discover the hidden message. You could write a message where you read every fourth word or tenth word. The friend who is receiving the message needs to know which words to read. The […]
202230419 – Hopes not Hurts
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 202230419 – Hopes not Hurts License Plate Code Personalized license plates frequently leave out the vowels and keep the consonants. For example: Wrangler might be WRNGLR In this code the vowels are left out and the consonants remain. You just need to guess the right vowels. Not as easy as […]
20230412 – Hope is a Verb
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230412 – Hope is a Verb The Caesar Cipher This week’s proverb is written in the Caesar Cipher so called because the Roman general Julius Caesar used it to send messages to his troops. It is a simple shift cipher in which the letters in the alphabet shift down several […]