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Christmas Secret Code

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In this code, every letter was moved along the alphabet. The wheel shows how far. To crack it, move each code letter back to find the real letter. Tap a box, then type or tap the letter.

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ+8
The rule: each letter moves 8 forward along the alphabet. A becomes I, B becomes J, C becomes K.
To crack it, move each code letter 8 back. On the wheel: find the code letter on the outside ring, and read the real letter under it.

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For grown-ups

Each sheet hides a joke or a short message behind a code, with the key printed at the top. Easy swaps letters for shapes and gives the whole key away, so it is really a matching exercise for a child who has just learned the alphabet. Medium and Hard shift every letter along by a number the sheet tells you. Super does not say what the number is, so the only way through is to try one, see that it reads as nonsense, and try the next: a first taste of solving something by testing a guess. The messages are jokes, which is what makes a child finish the last six letters.

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