These two games were developed and written by two Shodor Interns:

Decode de Code

Break the code used to encrypt quotes from famous scientists.

Mastermind Game

Just like the classic game Mastermind.

Caesar Cypher on Project Interactivate Site

Click on link above, then scroll down! Students practice simple arithmetic skills by encoding and decoding messages using an affine cipher.

Useful Links:

Break these codes:

  1. Sherlock Holmes' Adventure of the Dancing Men


  2. Who wrote this famous poem?
    What poem is it?

    Oh Damn! Must I Refrigerate?
    by Leslie Marie Kapshaw

    I, altogether a formed instrument,
    Despite slim motivation, mend love
    In what we'd call a fitter Shinto shrine;
    Where vermin rot, betroth some dove.
    A fork (an extreme division
    Soon eventless in the dark paths) makes not
    That street biker advisory warning
    So. I laugh when he knows what the non-bikers thought.


  3. What movie title is this?

    Con Bites Male Flesh
  4. Decipher this:

    sfbm rtqitcoogtu grqw hsgyqirx. Nk oz dhz pizl cx gbsdo, te etagxp or vofr id huqt.