WARNING! This post contains the answers to the ciphers posted here. For more information on different types of ciphers, check out this informative blog post here.
Cipher 1:
You awake from a sleep-like state to find yourself in an empty room. Have you been abducted?! Desperate to get out, you make your way to the only door. Next to the door you discover a strange incomplete panel and beside it a code written in bold.
Can you find the word that will open the door and set you free?
Complete the grid
Convert numbers to letters
Answer= Escape.
Cipher 2:
Hi! Everything is going great here. Lots of things to do each day. Please remember to feed your iguana. Maybe clean the water every once in awhile! Everyone here has been so nice. I wish I had done this sooner. Anyway, something funny happened the other day. My foot got caught in a log and I twisted my ankle. But, that is not the funny part, the funniest part was a bird pooped on my head. Everyone laughed. I couldn’t believe it. No one warned me there was a big log in front of me. Gotta be more careful!
How has everything been there? Everything ok? Location of your apartment close to school? Do you need anything? Have you started school yet? Enjoying your classes? Remember to pay attention! Every class counts.
So I guess that’s it for now. Everyone says hi. No need to send anymore clothes. Doing laundry in the lake is fun, camping is liberating. Hope everything is going well for you. Every day I miss you. Lots of love. Please say hi to everyone from me!
Acrostic Cipher
The first letter of each sentence spells:
Help me I am being held here, send help!
Cipher 3:
Lisa’s daughter, Michelle, left yesterday to meet friends but never returned. Frantically worried Lisa searches Michelle’s room and finds her phone tangled up in her unmade bed.
She checks social media and finds nothing to indicate where she might have gone. There is nothing of significance in her texts, either except some messages to Michelle’s friend Carla she can’t decipher, darn teenage lingo.
Do you know where Michelle went?
T9 Cipher (keypad on your phone)
Locate each number on the keypad and use the letters displayed to piece together the solution
The warehouse
Cipher 4:
Philip, an avid collector of antiquities, is found dead with an antique golden gun in his hand.
The coroner announces death by misadventure, deducing Phillip must have accidentally shot himself while cleaning the antique, not realizing it was loaded. But detective Ratio is not so sure. Upon inspecting the body more closely, he notices Philip is grasping a tiny piece of transparent paper containing a single symbol and a code. Could it be the killer’s calling card?
Golden Ratio Shift Cipher
1.618033988749895 is the golden ratio also know as φ or Phi
Shift each letter in the sequence by its corresponding letter in the ratio number
φ
I, THARUN killed him
Cipher clues:
The name Phi-lip. “Phi” is the name of the greek symbol.
Golden Gun and Detective Ratio= the golden ratio
Cipher 5:
Fay has been kidnapped, her captors give her a cell phone and tell her she can send one message to her husband so he will not worry, but she is not permitted to say anything unusual.
She writes:
Hi Honey,
I am so sorry, I have been caught up and cannot make Hannah’s pickup today. Could you grab her from school at 3:30 pm and I will be home as soon as humanly possible.
There is a casserole in the oven and a salad in the fridge.
Love you!
Fay
How is Tom going to find her?
Baconian Cipher
Read the text as follows:
Regular letters =A
Bold letters = B
AABBBAA
B AA AB ABAAB B BAAA AAAA AAABAA AB BBA
ABBAAA BABA ABAAAB’A AAAABB ABAAA. ABBAA AAA
AABA AAA AABA AAAABB AA A:AB BA ABB A BAAA AB
ABAA AA BBAB AA AABBAAA ABBABABB
AAAAAA’A B ABAAABAAA AA BBA BAAA BAA A
BBAAB AB AAA AABAAA
AAAB ABA
ABA
“Help, abducted, in a red building Yale district.”
Cipher 6:
Lisa Cameron went to Mexico for a holiday. While there, she discovered from a drunk man in the bar that there is treasure hidden in one of the old Mayan ruins.
He hands Lisa a slip of paper and tells her the treasure map is hidden somewhere in the Chichen Itza.
The slip of paper reads:
Where is the map located?
Rail Fence Cipher (of 3)
T. S. M. S. I. L. T. O
R. A U. E. A. I. I. S. D. E. C. S. I. L
E. R. P. N. E. A. L
Traditional Mayan designs have the zigzag (also known as ric rac) pattern.
Treasure map is inside El Castillo.
Cipher 7:
Sometimes solving a case is like doing the Cha-cha, you take a couple steps forward only to take a few more steps back. If only that was reversed!
Can you solve the below and find out what your next step should be?
Fancy Shift Cipher
Follow the steps of a Cha Cha to decode
2 back 3 forward, 2 back 3 forward shift
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