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Cow project overview: I was partnered up with Guin. We quickly breezed through the first clue because our code was correct to start with. We then easily decrypted clues 2 and 3. However, we got a little stuck on clue 4, but once we solved it, we were left with a number: 650806. We didn't think much of it at first, and then went up to Ms. Tran to get the 5th clue.
This was by far the hardest clue yet. This is because unlike any of the other clues, it didn't decrypt as soon as we entered it into our code. It kept giving us random gibberish. So, for the last fue numbers, we started trying every number. This didn't work at first, so we looked at a green sheet with numbers of the teachers that one of the clues said were involved: Raul, Ms. Sanchez, and Ms. King. We tried using their phone numbers, but had no luck. We then went back to trying all of the numbers again, over and over. Eventually, we came really close to solving the code, we could understand the words, but each one had one wrong letter. For example, candies was canfies. We counted the numbers of letter. With this, we figured out that one of the last numbers needed to be changed. Once again, we started to try the numbers. To our amaze, we got the right message! Unfortuantely, we weren't the first group to finish, but the second. Overall, I really enjoyed working with Guin on this project and I've learned a lot about code doing it.
Clue Decrytion:
Clue 1:
Vb. Cajw oxdwm jw xynw pjcn. Bqn rb yjwrltrwp knljdbn qna lxf qjb pxwn vrbbrwp!
Ms. Tran found an open gate. She is panicking because her cow has gone missing!
Procedure: To start, we used our caeser cipher code that we originally began with. Once we pasted the encrypted code into the decrypt program, it translated to the phrase above. With this code, we gathered the information that a gate may have something to do with the cow's disappearance.
Clue 2:
Tcwn uckf jg ucy vjg eqy jcpikpi qwv ykvj LJ mkfu kp vjg Ewg Swcf gcvkpi okpv ecpfa.
Raul said he saw the cow hanging out with JH kids in the Cue Quad eating mint candy.
Procedure: Once again, we took the encrypted code Ms. Tran sent us and pasted it into the code. It translated to the code above. We figured we should make a separate document to keep track of the information we have gathered. With this new information we decided that maybe the cow is in one of the classrooms near the junior high quad.
Clue 3:
Tz. Ayhu yljhssz zllpun Tz. Rpun huk Tz. Zhujolg lhapun aol zhtl tpua jhukf.
Ms. Tran recalls seeing Ms. King and Ms. Sanchez eating the same mint candy.
Procedure: To begin, we put the encrypted message into the code. We then gathered all of the information we have gotten so far. We then suspected that the cow could be somehwhere near the office because the candy jar is in the office.
Clue 4:
Awumwvm nwcvl i kivlg ezixxmz eqbp “Kitt um” ezqbbmv vmfb bw i vcujmz: 650806….
Someone found a candy wrapper with “Call me” written next to a number: 650806….
Procedure: Like the last three, we pasted the encrypted message into the code and got the second to last clue. Little did we know for a while that this clue would be an extreme help to us. We knew that the number had some sort of significance, so we saved it to our document.
Clue 5:
Zme cuf swbjs cgwfpmy aa sdeo gx goa fv. So otn zbuqe iz. Pb batkkm aw Rs. Yjpjpke’a uohpkk tw mnv pox nabxtpbk svait.
The cow loves candies as much as you do. No one stole it. It walked to Ms. Sanchez’s office to get his favorite snack.
Procedure: This is where things got slightly complicated. Like before, we pasted the encrypted code into our decrypt code to get our result and find the cow. However, that didn't happen. Once the code ran through the system, we looked through the output on the bottom and saw none of the words made sense. Confused, we thought it was a problem on our end, but it wasn't. After checking over and over again to see if ours was wrong, Ms. Tran announced to the class that the final clue was a decrypt 10, meaning a 10 multi-digit key. With this new information, we thought we could just enter it into the code and we would get the result we were hoping for. However, this didn't happen. We got an error message. We realized this is because we needed the 10 digit key. We then remembered that we had gotten numbers from clue 4, 650806. If it's ten digits, obviously we needed 4 more digits. To figure this out, we first put that number into the code to see what output we would get. It gave us some letters in a certain order. Some we could already see what words they were. Insteadof stratigically trying to find the last 4 digits, we went through the long tedious way of trying numbers by counting the letters. Once we realized that 9 was right, we figured we had to make sure the first few words were makign sense. we started tring from 1 and entered it, but as soon as we tried 2 it worked. We did the same with the last two numbers to eventually have the correct code and the correct message. Unfortunately, we were the second group to finish. However, we still were given candy.
Reflection:
S-The strength of my work was my code because it helped me breeze through the first 4 clues.
O-I could've tried the more strategic way to figure out the final clue to solve the mystery.
U-Understanding what I learned about this is I can code on Python and use it to solve clues to figure out a mystery.
L-Limitations I encountered in my code was not knowing to use the decrypt 10 in my final clue for a long time.
Wiscr: I am choosing clear communicator because Guin and I were able to collaborate effectively together to figure out clue 5. The second one I'm choosing is well rounded because I was optimistic when I got frustarted, and I learned many new elements of Python in terms of coding.
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