Caesar Cypher 

Description: On this project we need to decipher clues in order to find Ms.Trans missing cows. We will use the deciphering code that we found in class in order to decrypt it. Once we have deciphered the clue, then we will send her the answer and she will give us the next clue. This process will continue until we have finished all five clues. 

Clues:

Clue #1: Vb. Cajw oxdwm jw xynw pjcn. Bqn rb yjwrltrwp knljdbn qna lxf qjb pxwn vrbbrwp!

Answer: Ms. Tran found an open gate. She is panicking because her cow has gone missing!

Clue #2: Tcwn uckf jg ucy vjg eqy jcpikpi qwv ykvj LJ mkfu kp vjg Ewg Swcf gcvkpi okpv ecpfa.

Answer: Raul said he saw the cow hanging out with JH kids in the Cue Quad eating mint candy. 

Clue #3: Tz. Ayhu yljhssz zllpun Tz. Rpun huk Tz. Zhujolg lhapun aol zhtl tpua jhukf.

Answer: Ms. Tran recalls seeing Ms. King and Ms. Sanchez eating the same mint candy.

Clue #4: Awumwvm nwcvl i kivlg ezixxmz eqbp “Kitt um” ezqbbmv vmfb bw i vcujmz: 650806….

Answer: Someone found a candy wrapper with “Call me” written next to a number: 650806….

Clue #5: me cuf swbjs cgwfpmy aa sdeo gx goa fv. So otn zbuqe iz. Pb batkkm aw Rs. Yjpjpke’a uohpkk tw mnv pox nabxtpbk svait. 

Answer: 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: We used the code that we wrote in previous classes in order to solve the mystery. We would plug the encrypted clue provided by Ms. Tran and then the code would go through 26 possible keys and print them. We would then look for which one formed a legible sentence and then we would send that to Ms. Tran. Once we got the next clue, we would repeat the process until the fourth clue was finished. The final clue was slightly different from the rest because the key we got from clue four didn't work if we tried to decipher it using our pre-made function. The clue four hinted that the key was a phone number so we plugged in four 0s into sequence and found that adding an extra nine to the sequence would display some words. Then we plugged in 2 and it showed the words 'no one' which meant we were on the right track. Then we continued plugged in seven and eight which ended up deciphering the code as: '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.'

SOUL Reflection:

S - Strength : We had great teamwork and coordination, and as a result, we were very efficient and we were barely first. Our code was error free and had no syntax error. We never had to change the code.

O - Opportunities : If we saw it was a phone number we probably would have gotten first.

U - Understanding : In order to solve the first four clues, we needed to know how the for loop worked. We had to change the main running code a couple times to run the right functions.

L - Limitations : We were sent the wrong clue at first, which delayed our progress by quite a substantial amount of time. We didn't write a code that printed the decryption with the last four digits of the phone number which means we had to guess and check manually.

WISCR: 

The qualities we demonstrated during this project is I - Insightful and Critical Thinkers, and C - Clear Communicators. First of all, we solved this using our critical thinking. When we ran into a problem (ex. the phone number), we tried our best to workour way around it. Also, the code never had any syntax errors, which showed that we were very precise and accurate. We were both clear communators because we would help each other decipher the code. When the other ran into a problem, we would communicate and solve it together as a team.