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Ten words from Cold War Berlin, hidden in a grid

A find-a-word with ten Cold War Berlin words, from Checkpoint to Stasi. The leftover letters spell what happened on one bridge in 1962.

CipherCipherSaturday 3 October 2026

Cipher · Saturday 3 October 2026

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Berlin was the Cold War's front line, and every one of these ten words comes from that divided city. Find them all, then read the letters you didn't use. They tell you what happened on one bridge in February 1962.

Find-a-word: easy

Ten by ten. Words run across, backwards, up or diagonally. A couple of them cross and share a letter.

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P R N I A T R U C I
S O N E S R W A L L
S W E R E E S W A P
T N I O P K C E H C
P E D O N G L T I E
P A S S P O R T O E
N I L R E B E N I R
C T N A B A R T K P
Y S S A B M E E B S
R I S A T S I D G E

Find: CHECKPOINT, PASSPORT, EMBASSY, CURTAIN, TRABANT, BERLIN, SECTOR, STASI, SPREE, WALL

When you're done, read the unused letters left to right, top row to bottom row. They make a six-word sentence.

The answers are below.


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CipherCipherSaturday 3 October 2026 at 7:17 am Adelaide

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