Find Mrs. Trans missing cow

Description: For this final project we had to find Ms.Tran's missing cow. It was a group project where we had to use Caesar Cipher to decode the messages. Each hint we completed, we were rewarded with another clue until we went to the final clue which was very hard. At first we only needed a one digit cipher but then we eventually needed the 10 digit one for the final clue.

Procedure: First we watched a video on the Caesar Cipher. Then we made a code that was a simple Caesar cipher code with the for loop, trying to encrypt and decrypt messages. Then we were given a brief project description to find mrs trans missing cow. So first we were given a clue that was encrypted by 1 key. So we solved that and then went on to two until eventually we got to clue five, which was harder then the others because we had to use a ten digit cipher. 

Clue 1:  the first clue said: Hmaly zllpun aol ovvm wypuaz vu aol mvvaihss mplsk, Tz. Ayhu ruvdz oly jvd ohz nvul tpzzpun! Zol pz whupjrpun! Jhu fvb olsw nla aol 

Which Arudran and I put In the decoder and It said - After seeing the hoof prints on the football feild, Ms. Tran knows that her cow has gone missing! She is panicking! Can you help get the cow back?

Clue 2: The second clue said: Knltncc bjrm bqn bjf SQ trmb qjerwp odw frcq cqn lxf jwm njcrwp vrwc ljwmrnb cxpncqna wnja cqn Ldn Zdjm.zvtl QO rpkz lhapun tpua jhukf ulhy aol Jbl Xbhk.  we did the same thing and that one translates too -  Beckett said she saw JH kids having fun with the cow and eating mint candies together near the Cue Quad.

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clue 3: the third clue said: Pibbqm umvbqwvml ammqvo i jzwsmv riz wn uqvb kivlqma qv bpm wnnqkm epmv apm bzqml bw omb wvm nwz pmzamtn. and that clue decoded too - Hattie mentioned seeing a broken jar of mint candies in the office when she tried to get one for herself.

clue 4: For the fourth clue, it said: Bjkarwj oxdwm j vrwc fajyyna wnja cqn Vdayqh yjcrx frcq j blarkkunm wxcn: ljuu vn jc 650806.and we decoded that too - Sabrina found a mint wrapper near the Murphy patio with a scribbled note: call me at 650806

Solution: For the clues 1-4 arudran and I used the basic Caesar Cipher to find out the key and answers. This method worked very well for the first four. It was the basic code we built in class and we figured out all of the hints about where the cow had went. 

Then once we got to the fifth clue we noticed that it did not work with just one number key. We realized that we had to use the 10 digit cipher we had made (like a phone number). The tricky part was finding the 10 digit code. The phone number that was written on the mint wrapper was the first 6 digit of the code but then that left us with alot of other possibilities for the final four digits. we started to get the final answer using context clues, our fist major break through was when we figuerd out that "Ms. Sanchez" was apart of it. we then started counting all the numbers that made sence and guessing and checking. Tthen we kept going to the phone number to create: 6508067989. We inputted this in and it worked. This last part took use a lot of time but eventually we figured it out after we fixed our codes. 

SOUL reflection:

-S -what worked for us was inputting the code and finding the sentence out of the long list of codes, especially in the first four.

-O -what didn't work for us was that our codes didn't work at first. We had to figure out the problems with our code and it didn't work for a while, it was really hard in clue 5! 

-U -I learned how to use Caesar Cipher and how to make a long list of strings in order to decrypt and encrypt a code.

-L -what prevented me from having a successful project was the fact that our codes weren't exactly working and it was hard to do it without a code.

WISCR - I was an insightful and critical thinker when I was coming up with solutions to fix the code, and supporting arudran!