Valentine’s Day Codes
Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.
Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)
Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.
Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)
Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!
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?
Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Word Ladder – Tea to Hot (5-steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
Jotto
Who can guess the codeword first?