A Hot Tip: Code Breaking

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During the meeting this morning, my friend slid a wrinkled piece pf paper in my direction. It seems that his financial planner had called earlier with a hot tip that he was kind enough to share with just me. If you can decipher the tip, then you’ll know it , too!

Grocer – Tailor
Crawford – Fairbanks
Bangkok – Manila
stork – magpie
hexagram – octagon
oxygen – potassium
Chekhov – Xerxes

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Okay, I’ll supply a hint. The object is to break the code and reveal a secret message. The hint might just make this tooooo easy so try a little harder before you look…

Hint: Each pair of words represents a single letter of the hidden message.

Hint 2: The first pair of words represent the letter: S

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buff – huge
queen – prince
students – university
strength – joust
kids – unruly

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Yes, you did! Now, try the others…

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wish – jewel
pixi – kiwi
next – vet
car – tree
mess – underneath
stuff – heaps
men – power
indus – urdu
sigh – jeer
rains – umbrellas
aunts – uncles
scorn – punishment
green – purple

That took a very long time!

StuartR

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Cool!

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Cool!

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wish – jewel
pixi – kiwi
next – vet
car – tree
mess – underneath
stuff – heaps
men – power
indus – urdu
sigh – jeer
rains – umbrellas
aunts – uncles
scorn – punishment
green – purple

That took a very long time!

StuartR

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