Pigpen cipher: worksheet
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Worksheet · Pigpen cipher
Pigpen cipher: worksheet
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How it works
Find each letter in the key and draw the lines around it, with the dot if it has one. To decode, find each symbol in the key.
Exercises
Decode this message.
⟩⊓□ ⟩⌜̇□⌟∨⟨⌜̇□ ⌜∨ ⟨□̇⊐□⌜̇ ⟩⊓□ ∨⟩⌟⌜⌜̇∨Your answer
Encode this message.
WE ESCAPED JUST IN TIME
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Worksheet · Pigpen cipher
Key
- A: grid, top left
- B: grid, top
- C: grid, top right
- D: grid, left
- E: grid, centre
- F: grid, right
- G: grid, bottom left
- H: grid, bottom
- I: grid, bottom right
- J: grid, top left, with a dot
- K: grid, top, with a dot
- L: grid, top right, with a dot
- M: grid, left, with a dot
- N: grid, centre, with a dot
- O: grid, right, with a dot
- P: grid, bottom left, with a dot
- Q: grid, bottom, with a dot
- R: grid, bottom right, with a dot
- S: X, top
- T: X, left
- U: X, right
- V: X, bottom
- W: X, top, with a dot
- X: X, left, with a dot
- Y: X, right, with a dot
- Z: X, bottom, with a dot