Spy Games

We had a party last weekend with a theme of spying. My oldest son loves the idea of being a spy or a detective and I have occasionally sent him notes in his lunch with puzzles and/or codes to break. During school, he'll work to solve the puzzle or break the code. So far, he hasn't failed to break one and he loves it!



At the party, the kids had some friends over and I created a treasure hunt in which the clues were encoded with simple ciphers. I gave them a few examples of ciphers, but I didn't tell them which cipher I used on each clue and I didn't list all the ciphers I used. Most of them were pretty easy, but a lot of the kids just didn't get it. With the practice my son has had, he led the pack in solving them and he LOVED that too! He claims he's shy, but he really loves being the center of attention ... like his dad.

He's a problem solver, which doesn't really surprise me. Maybe he'll be an engineer ... poor kid.

Go ahead. Click the link. In the previous paragraph. See it? Give it a try. It's funny.