With this fun challenge, brought to you in partnership with the Science Museum Group, you and your child can learn how to make a cipher wheel together and use it to send secret messages to one ...

Each time the cipher clerk keyed a letter, the right wheel moved on mechanically one place and, as explained above, from time to time the center and left wheels also moved. As each new letter (e.g ...

With this box, 4 cipher wheels need to be picked up and placed in a specific order, from left to right: The wheel found on the floor by the cipher wheel needs to be placed in the 1st slot.

However, there’s a catch, as only 3 of the 4 cipher wheels have the 4 letters they need. To understand this better, the first wheel for the cipher reads R-C-D-O-A-J-B-S. Players need the J and ...

In the corner of the room, there are four cipher wheels which you need to insert into the device in the right order. For that, look at the clipboards on the table and you’ll see one with the ...

In 1854, Sir Charles Wheatstone invented the cipher known as "Playfair," named for his friend Lyon Playfair, first Baron Playfair of St. Andrews, who popularized and promoted the cipher.

It's possible to make a 'cipher wheel' that represents how many steps shifted a cipher is, making it a little easier to translate an encrypted message back into something readable. You can ...

Inside, you’ll find a cipher machine sided by a set of lettered code reels and a locked door that requires a code. Your task is to use the documents and the code wheels in the room to decipher ...