More Written Codes and Ciphers

By: Stephanie

    Here I will show you some of our favorite codes and ciphers. Click on the underlined words to jump around the page to the cipher or code of your choice.

PIG PEN

DIARY CODE

LAST LETTER EXCHANGE

INVISIBLE INK

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                 PIG PEN    

This cipher was made up during the Civil War by a Union prisoner to send messages to his friends on the outside.

All you have to do is take the shape around the letter and well, write it. In the second grid, you have to put dots in the shapes.

THE DIARY CODE

This is the Diary Code.  Look in the lower right hand corner of the box and read up. In between each word, put a Y W X Z or S.

    The message reads: I x hope z you s enjoy z this x website y s z .

  LAST LETTER EXCHANGE

Here is a fairly simple code.

I hop eYo Uca Nfigur EOUT tHi scodE.

All I did here was to take the sentence  "I hope you can figure out this code." and move the last letter of each word to the front of the next word. I made some letters capital and some not just to confuse the reader.

                         INVISIBLE INK

    Invisible ink is another way to really confuse your reader. A message would look like this:

A total blank message.

To make invisible ink:

To confuse your reader even more, use the invisible ink to write your message within another innocent letter.

Move your mouse over the message below to see the "Hidden Message" within it.