Post #2501064

Hmm, just ran a 'Spy Night' with the #scouts last night. It was a bit of a mixed bag. I'd put hours into preparing it, but it mostly fell apart when I tried to print out my work sheets last nights, and my home laser printer gave up. So I was 20 mins late, and I couldn't run through the plan with the other leaders to get the right knowledge for supporting the patrols on the different stations :-( Running through it, I know now what needs to be changed to make it better, where I wasn't aware without a good 'dry run' that some things were a bit too complex. Content wise, this was covered: * Message transmission and encoding: - Tap code - Morse code * symmetric ciphers: - Pig Pen (Masonic) cipher - Caesar cipher - Rail Fence cipher - Vignere cipher (didn't get to it, needs to be cut) * steganography: - Invisible ink (lemon juice) - First letters of words in a paragraph - A cut out mask over a (book) page #ScoutingNZ