Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Codes of Ancient Secrets
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Ancient Spartan tool for transposing messages on a rod
- 2. Cipher method rearranging letters' positions
- 4. 19th-century digraph substitution cipher invented in England
- 8. General term for a secret or disguised way of writing
- 10. Roman shift cipher named after a famous dictator
- 11. Cipher using a pierced sheet to reveal hidden text
- 13. Polyalphabetic cipher using a keyword to shift letters
- 15. Telegraph code using dots and dashes
- 17. Cipher combining fractionation and transposition
Down
- 3. Cipher using multiple substitution alphabets
- 5. Transposition cipher that writes diagonally across rows
- 6. Common cipher replacing one letter for another
- 7. Codebook based system often used for diplomatic secret writing
- 9. French variation spelling of Julius shift cipher (variant)
- 12. Type of cipher that rotates letters by a fixed number
- 14. Famous German cipher machine from World War II
- 16. Hebrew substitution cipher reversing the alphabet
- 18. Simple letter substitution rotating the alphabet by 13
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