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Cryptic Codes and Cipher Mysteries
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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- 1. Alphabet used by ancient peoples, sometimes encoded
- 2. Action integral to many substitution ciphers
- 3. Classical letter shift cipher named after a Roman ruler
- 4. Ancient Hebrew substitution cipher reversing the alphabet
- 5. Dot-and-dash code used in early telegraphy
- 8. Small piece representing data or a code symbol
- 10. Base-2 code essential in digital encryption
- 11. A device part used in cipher machines to scramble letters
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- 6. Famous WWII cipher machine used by Germany
- 7. Name linked to early cryptographic experiments
- 9. Short for mixing letters, basis of many ciphers
- 12. Part of a code name or a secret nickname
- 13. Opposite of ciphertext; readable message format
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