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Tuesday 3 November 2026

Final exam at the safe house

The month's last codebreaking pack is set in a safe house. Ten puzzles run from braille to an autokey closer, with answers at the end.

Cipher Tuesday 3 November 2026, open calendar3 min read

A Kryha cipher machine from the 1920s at the Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin. Photo: 1971markus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified

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A month of locks ends here, behind a door with a combination dial. Everything you've practised gets one more run.

A chrome Kryha cipher machine from the 1920s with its ring of lettered and numbered dial tabs, in a Berlin museum case — A Kryha cipher machine from the 1920s at the Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin. Photo: 1971markus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified

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