The word snoop - Ursula Dubosarsky 2009

The keys to the Word Snoop’s codes

Hello, Word Snoops. How did you do with all those codes? Did you decipher my message?

Hmm, maybe some of the codes were a bit too tricky. Well, in that case, here are some keys that will help you unlock the codes and work out the message, just like opening a locked door and finding what’s inside . . .

So go on, snoops—have another go!

CHAPTER ONE

Key

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

So A = Z B = Y etc.

CHAPTER TWO

Key

Adding a silent letter to every second letter

So “hakrdkly” = hardly

CHAPTER THREE

Key

! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + { } [ ] : ” ; ’ < > ? , . /

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

So A = !, B = @ etc.

CHAPTER FOUR

Key

A vital letter is left out

So “Ould you ome to the akeshop for a upake?”=

Could you come to the cakeshop for a cupcake?

CHAPTER FIVE

Key

A backward code

So “drawkcab nettirw si egassem siht”=

this message is written backward

CHAPTER SIX

Key

A rebus code

So “ACDEFG”= Begone! (“B” gone—get it?)

CHAPTER SEVEN

Key

A “say it out loud” code

So “Kan ute rye took rack thee scoad?”=

Can you try to crack this code?

CHAPTER EIGHT

Key

A first letter code

So “Better Eaten When Ants Rushing Everywhere”=

BEWARE

CHAPTER NINE

Key

A numbered letter code

So: My first is in strawberries

My second is in snow pea

My third and fourth are in blood oranges

My fifth is in bosc-pear

My sixth is in grapes

= snoops

CHAPTER TEN

Key

A mobile phone code related to the numbers you

would press if you were texting

So A = 2.1 (press the “2” key once)

B = 2.2 (press the “2” key twice)

C = 2.3 (press the “2” key three times)

etc.