Valentine’s Day Codes

Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.

Words Within Words: Chocolate

How many words can you find within Chocolate?

Words Within Words: PATRICK

How many words can you find within Patrick?

Words Within Words: IRELAND

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Words Within Words: COBWEB

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

Words Within Words: WREATH

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Words Within Words: STUFFING

How many words are hiding inside STUFFING? More than you think.

Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Words Within Words: AIRPLANE

How many words can you find within airplane?

Word Pyramid: H to CRASH

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Jotto

Who can guess the codeword first?

Words Within Words: MENORAH

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?