This one is from the archive. Play it for practice — past puzzles never count toward a streak. Today’s cipher is here.
3 guesses to crack the cipher. One cipher each day.
shift 13
JUNG GUR EVIRE GBBX GUR QEBHTUG TNIR ONPX
A Caesar shift of exactly 13 — which means encoding and decoding are the same move.
Learn the method: how to solve rot13
WHAT THE RIVER TOOK THE DROUGHT GAVE BACK
Every letter has been swapped for another one, and the same swap is used all the way through. Letter shapes stay put — word lengths and spacing are still real clues. This one is ROT13. The key: shift 13. A Caesar shift of exactly 13 — which means encoding and decoding are the same move. Take the first letter, J, and walk it back 13 places: it lands on W. Do that to every letter and the message reads W H A… The answer was WHAT THE RIVER TOOK THE DROUGHT GAVE BACK.
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