You then need to cut out the two circles and layer them together with a brad. I suggest printing the Decoder Ring on stiff cardstock. You can download today's puzzle by clicking on the decoder ring. It's also said that this code was used by Confederate soldiers during the Civil War! There's a bit of history trivia for you! It is also sometimes called the Mason's Cipher, because it has been used by the Freemasons. The Pigpen Cipher is sometimes called the Tic-Tac-Toe Cipher, because of the grid shapes. I used this encoding for the Decoder Ring too. The second grid starts at the top and continues clockwise. Will you go from bottom to top in the first grid? Or go across starting from the top left? With the second grid, will you start on the left and go clockwise? Or start on the bottom and go counterclockwise? I have created this code starting at the top left for the first grid and going down, then back up to the top middle, etc. You need to have determined ahead of time, with your secret message pen pal, how you will arrange the letters. Then fill the grids with letters of the alphabet. You just need to draw the four grids, adding dots to the compartments of the last two grids.

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