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Missing in the Desert
An American spy found himself on an assignment in the Arabian Desert. He was running out of supplies and needed to send a coded message to let his support know what he needed.
Can you decipher the code to see what he is missing?
Items needed
-bcd-fghijklmnopq-s-uv-xyz
abc-e-ghijklmn-2 pqrstuvwxyz
Can you decipher the code to see what he is missing?
Items needed
-bcd-fghijklmnopq-s-uv-xyz
abc-e-ghijklmn-2 pqrstuvwxyz
Answer
He was in need of water & food.The letters were replaced with -(minus) to indicate what he was missing. The -2 indicated two of the same letters were missing.
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You forget to put the minus between the 'q' and the 's' which indicate 'r'
oops I'll see if they can fix it . thanks.
good job
Great one! (for basic cryptologists that is :wink
Good one, I could have never got by myself though.
good one
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