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Caesar Ciphers to Amuse — and Confuse — You

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With a Caesar Cipher, the cipher alphabet wraps around the plain alphabet. For example, if there is a +1 shift, A=B, B=C, C=D, and so on to Z=A. Once you have figured out one or two of the letters in a Caesar cipher, the rest of the encryption will fall out easily.

Tricky Caesar Cipher 1.When this encrypted letter was deciphered by American codebreakers during World War I, it resulted in a death sentence for the man mentioned in it.

DRO LOKBOB YP DRSC VODDOB SC K CELTOMD YP DRO QOBWKX OWZSBO GRY DBKFOVC KC K BECCSKX EXNOB DRO XKWO YP ZKLVY GKLOBCUS. RO SC K QOBWKX COMBOD KQOXD. ZVOKCO PEBXSCR RSW YX BOAEOCD ZBYDOMDSYX KXN KCCSCDKXMO.

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Tricky Caesar Cipher 2. All you need to do is figure out one letter in a Caesar cipher, and you can then unlock the rest of the cryptogram.

MAX FXG MAX TFXKBVTG INUEBV TWFBKX FHLM XQMKTOTZTGMER TKX MAX FHLM WTKBGZ EBTKL; MAX FXG MAXR WXMXLM FHLM OBHEXGMER TKX MAHLX PAH MKR MH MXEE MAXF MAX MKNMA. A. E. FXGVDXG

Tricky Caesar Cipher 2 Hint

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Tricky Caesar Cipher 3. A useful insight from a Founding Father :

KYIVV DRP BVVG R JVTIVK, ZW KNF FW KYVD RIV UVRU. SVEARDZE WIREBCZE

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Tricky Caesar Cipher 4. This 1943 coded message from World War II involves a boat commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy of the United States Naval Reserve:

GF LZW KWUGFV VSQ GX SMYMKL, HSLJGD LGJHWVG TGSL GFW RWJG FAFW OSK DGKL AF SULAGF AF TDSUCWLL KLJSAL LOG EADWK KGMLZOWKL GX EWJWKM UGNW, OALZ S UJWO GX LOWDNW. OW JWIMWKL SFQ AFXGJESLAGF QGM ESQ ZSNW STGML HGKKATDW KMJNANGJK.

Tricky Caesar Cipher 4 Hint

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Tricky Caesar Cipher 5. It won’t take you long to decipher this cryptogram!

FCVRF PNAABG OR HFRSHYYL RZCYBLRQ JVGUBHG N PREGNVA VAGHVGVIR FNTNPVGL. FHA GMH, GUR NEG BS JNE

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Denise Sutherland is a syndicated puzzle author. Her crosswords, word searches and other puzzles appear in a range of publications around the world, and she has written many puzzle books, including Cryptic Crossword Puzzles For Dummies and Word Searches For Dummies.