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Our Process: Kitty, my partner, and I decrypted a series of clues to find a missing cow. The first four clues were pretty easy to decrypt, for they were just using Caesar's cipher.
Basically, we used our Caesar Ciper decryption code and tried out each possible key from 1 to 26. Then we looked through the 26 outcomes and found the write decryption.
Clue 1: After seeing the hoof prints on the football field, Ms. Tran knows her cow has gone missing! She is panicking! Can you help get the cow back?
Derived: The cow walked from the football field away from Ms. Tran, so the cow is now lost.
Clue 2: Beckett said she saw JH kids having fun with the cow and eating mint candies together near the Cue Quad.
Derived: The cow is at the Cue Quad.
Clue 3: Hattie mentioned seeing a broken jar of mint candies in the office when she tried to get one for herself.
Derived: The cow is in the office and took a mint.
Clue 4: Sabrina found a mint wrapper near the Murphy patio with a scribbled note: call me at 650806
Derived: The cow is near the Murphy Patio now because it took a mint. The phone number is part of the solution.
For our 5th clue, Kitty and I used the phone number fragment from Clue 4, "650806" as the first 6 digits of our 10 digit key. We then used a for loop to find all the possible 4 digit codes and printed out all the possible decryptions. We used the command f combination to find the right decryption.
The final clue was
The cow broke the candy jar while trying to get his favorite snack. No one stole him; he walked to Ms. Sanchez’s office to get candy, then hung out with the JH kids.
SOUL Reflections:
S: My strength was how well me partner worked together.
O: If I had more clues to decode, I could have practiced decrypting more.
U: I understood how decrypting worked really thoroughly.
L: I think if there was more clues, me and my partner could have worked together longer and really get skilled at encrypting as well.
WISCR:
I was very respectful of my partner, Kitty. We collaborated really well together.
I was very insightful because I figured out how to use my old code to write a new code to find my last clue.
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