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The grille turns

Medium. Turning grille. 4×4, four holes, clockwise.

CipherCipherSunday 30 August 2026

The Gold Standard

Cipher · Sunday 30 August 2026

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You’re turning a Cardan grille. A 4×4 card with four holes — one per row and column. Lay it on the square, write through the holes in row-major order, turn 90° clockwise, repeat four times. The four orientations never collide. They cover all sixteen cells.

Holes before any turn (row, column; 1-indexed): (1,1), (2,2), (3,4), (4,3)

Filled grid:

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C S N H

H A T O

H W I T

X E C P

Read it with the same grille and turns. Trailing X is padding. Put the spaces back for the answer.

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