20230125 — Success
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230125 — Success Arabic/Roman cipher 19 21 3 3 V 19 19 / 3 XV 13 V 19 / XX XV / XX 8 XV 19 V / 23 8 XV / IV I 18 V / XX XV / II V 7 IX 14 This code combines […]
20230117 – Towers
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230117 – Towers Reverse Transposition Cipher In a reverse transposition cipher, the proverb is written backwards and then divided into groups of 3 or 4 letters. DNUO RGEH TTAN IGEB SREW OTTS EHGI HEHT NEVE To solve the cipher, write the proverb beginning at the end. EVEN THEH IGHE STTO […]
20230111 – Fall Down
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230111 – Fall Down 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 just like in an eye chart. To solve this cipher, write the letters […]
20230104 — Spark
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20230104 — Spark Key Word Code S Q M S O G A S J Q T S O T S C O K S T B E O K The Key Word Code is based on a word agreed upon in advance between the coders. Spark is the key […]
20221228 – Getting Started
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221228 – Getting Started 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. [ : . ] . / > […]
20221221 – Wise Men
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221221 – Wise Men Morse Code 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 […]
20221214 – Christmas Present
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221214 – Christmas Present Snail Code T M A S P R S I S T H E I S X J E S R U S E B E H C T S E N ! R E V E T The Snail Code gets its name from how […]
20221207 – Reason
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221207 – Reason 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 letters and […]
20221130 – Thanking God
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221130 – Thanking God The Hidden Message Code In this message you read the first word and then every fifth 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 to needs to […]
20221123 — Change
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221123 — Change 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 code would […]