20220907 – Bird Wings
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220907 – Bird Wings QWERTY Keyboard Code Q E I O S R V O Z I G X Z T R X E Q Z O G F O L S O A T Q W O K R V O Z I G X Z V O F […]
20220831 – Common Sense
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220831 – Common Sense 11/13 4/8 6/8 5/9 1/11 6/7 * 3/5 2/20 6/7 1/7 4/18 * 8/10 3/5 * 4/5 12/14 3/6 10/12 Fractional Cipher Each letter in the cipher is represented by a fraction. To solve the puzzle: Add the numbers in the fraction together. 6/8 =14, […]
20220824 – Goal
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220824 – Goal I / 7 XV I 12 / 23 IX XX 8 XV 21 XX / I / 16 12 I 14 / IX 19 / X 21 19 XX / I / 23 IX 19 8. Arabic/Roman cipher This code combines Roman and Arabic numerals. Each […]
20220817 — Promises
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220817 — Promises Reverse Transposition Cipher In a reverse transposition cipher, the proverb is written backwards and then divided into groups of 3 or 4 letters. TPEK RON EKOR BRE HTIE ERA SESI MOR PLLA To solve the cipher, write the proverb beginning at the end. ALLP […]
20220810 — Boulder
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220810 — Boulder 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 in […]
20220803 – Miracles
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220803 – Miracles Key Word Code The Key Word Code is based on a word agreed upon in advance between the coders. Miracles is the key word for this cipher. To develop the code, you write the key word and then the rest of the alphabet leaving out the letters […]
20220727 – Sound of freedom
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220727 – Sound of freedom Edgar Allen Poe was a famous student of cryptography, the study of codes and secret messages. 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. […]
20220720 – Free
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220720 – Free 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 code […]
20220713 — Fail
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220713 — Fail In honor of the Fourth of July, Felix is sending you proverbs about Freedom this month. Freedom doesn’t mean doing anything you want. Felix is going to help you understand what freedom really means. O F A I L O O T E D O M […]
20220707 – Serve God
Solution to this Week’s Puzzle 20220707 – Serve God 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. Free would be fr ee, then rf ee. To decode the message, you re-reverse the […]