This one is from the archive. Play it for practice — past puzzles never count toward a streak. Today’s cipher is here.
3 guesses to crack the cipher. One cipher each day.
shift unknown
LXMN ORABCORWM
A Caesar shift, but you have to find the distance yourself. Try the one-letter words first.
Learn the method: how to solve caesar shift
CODE FIRSTFIND
That’s a real code. Use FIRSTFIND at checkout on this month’s hunt.
Every letter has been swapped for another one, and the same swap is used all the way through. Letter shapes stay put — word lengths and spacing are still real clues. This one is Caesar Shift. The key: shift unknown. A Caesar shift, but you have to find the distance yourself. Try the one-letter words first. Take the first letter, L, and walk it back 9 places: it lands on C. Do that to every letter and the message reads C O D… The answer was CODE FIRSTFIND.
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