Season 03 • Episode 11 • Famous ciphers 2 – The dancing men
0Famous ciphers 2 – The dancing men
Season 03
Episode 11 Time frame 1 period
Prerequisites :
Coneptsofryptography.Caesaripher.Objectives :
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Disover and break the daning men ipherMaterials :
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Story and ipher•
Cipher•
Slideshow1 – Break the code 55 mins
Studentsaregiven somehintsaboutthestoryandtheoriginaliphersfromArthurConan
Doyle's short story.They have the wholeperiod tobreak the ipher.
2 – The short story Homework
Students are given the omplete short story to read home, fousing on the part where
Famous ciphers 2 – The dancing men
Season 03
Episode 11 Document Ciphers
Synopsis
The story takes plae about a year after Mr.
Hilton Cubitt married Elsi, a young Amerian
lady.SheisAmerian,andbeforethewedding,she
asked her husband-to-be to promise her never to
ask about her past, as she had had some very di-
sagreeable assoiations inher life.
All is well until Elsie reeived a letter from
the USA, that obviouslyupsets her, asshe threws
the letter in the re. A few days letter, pitures
of daning men appear repeatedly, sometimes on
piees of paper, sometimes halked onawall, ora
door oreven a windowsill.
Cubitt alls the famous London detetive,
Sherlok Holmes. Holmes tells Cubitt that he
wants tosee every ourreneof the daningmen.
He quikly realizes that it isa substitution ipher
and raks it.
Sherlokexaminingoneipher.
IllustrationbySidneyPaget,1903
