Wednesday 21 October 2026

Ciphers

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  1. Ciphers

    Myszkowski, steel

    Medium. Myszkowski. Keyword STEEL. Repeated letters share a column number.
  2. Ciphers

    Six dots on the pad

    Easy. Grade-1 Braille. Six-dot cells, o is raised.
  3. Ciphers

    Two squares, star and ship

    Medium. Two-square. Left keyword STAR, right keyword SHIP. I/J share.
  4. Ciphers

    Morbit on the chopsticks

    Medium. Morbit. Morse, then pairs of . - x turned into digits 1–9.
  5. Ciphers

    Amsco, three one two

    Medium–hard. Amsco. Irregular columnar. Groups of 1 then 2 letters, left to right, repeating. Key 312.
  6. Ciphers

    Spiral off the pad

    Easy–medium. Route cipher. Fill a 3×4 grid row-major, read clockwise from the outside in.
  7. Ciphers

    First-night quiz

    Five short questions on the 30 August edition. No trick items. Answers under the break.
  8. Ciphers

    Binary on the desk

    Five ASCII bytes, a three-rail fence, and a one-line quiz about the first edition.
  9. Ciphers

    The keyword is stainless

    A keyword cipher built on STAINLESS, plus hex that names the unglamorous miracle.
  10. Ciphers

    Eight in the yard

    A letter matrix of catch, stack, train, and the quiet jobs around them.
  11. Ciphers

    Catch, then the ship

    A Caesar five, Morse from the pad, and a tiny A-is-1 reflight.
  12. Ciphers

    The night sky is a schedule

    A substitution cryptogram and a ROT13 of the same Gulf idea. Two cribs, then the lights.
  13. Ciphers

    The alphabet, reversed

    Atbash, a rails cross, a power matrix, and a hex coalition.

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