20221116 — Action
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221116 — Action 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 it sounds. […]
20221109 – Give Thanks
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221109 – Give Thanks N P C L A O H U R Z M V Y H S P A A S L, H U K F V B D P S S M P U K H S V A The Caesar Cipher This week’s proverb is […]
20221102 — Gratitude and Joy
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221102 — Joy The Vowel Shapes Cipher The Vowel shape Cipher is easy to write and to solve. The only letters in the alphabet that are changed are the vowels. They are given other shapes. A = ! E = @ I = # O = $ U = % […]
20221026 – Change Your Mind
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221026 – Change Your Mind Substitution Cipher This cipher is one of the easiest ciphers to write and to break. Because it is easy to break, it is not used often. 20 8 15 19 5 / 23 8 15 / 3 1 14 14 15 20 / 3 8 […]
20221019 – Be the Change
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221019 – Be the Change Rail Fence Cipher or Zig Zag Cipher This week’s cipher is a Rail Fence Cipher. It was used during the Civil War and is based on zigzag of a rail fence. You write this cipher in zigzag pattern. Draw a zig zag: When […]
20221012 Finished
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221012 Finished Space Cipher The Space Code is one of the simplest codes to write, and a simple code to break if you recognize that all the letter groups have the same number of letters. Write the message as one long word, WHENYOUAREFINISHEDCHANGINGYOUAREFINISHED Then break the word into groups of […]
20221005 — Change
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20221005 — Change Blabber Jabber Cipher In this code, the message is written as one long word. changeisenvitablechangeisconstant Break up or combine the letters in unusual places. Pepper the line with punctuation marks. To help decoding the message, you can bold the beginning and end of each word in the […]
20220928 — Teaching
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220928 — Teaching The Greek Square Cipher or the Polybius Checkerboard This week’s cypher is based on a system developed by Polybius, a Greek historian and cryptographer, about 2,000 years ago. 33 15 51 15 42 / 43 44 34 35 / 31 15 11 51 33 24 33 22 […]
2022 – Eraser
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 2022 – Eraser Transposition Cipher D E R F U E O U A O S P N P S R E E O T E E U N T H R Y P C U E B O T I S E E U H L In this […]
20220914 – Read
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220914 – Read In September, Felix wants to salute going back to school by sending you ciphers about learning. This code is based on a common communication device. 32 92 71 21 62 31 93 63 82 73 91 63 73 53 31, 73 32 21 31 21 […]