Stories / The Adventure of the Dancing Men
🧮 Analysis tool — freeThe Substitution Drill
Train the method that broke the dancing men: shift, count, and read.
Holmes cracked the figures as any substitution falls: frequency first, names second. Drill the mechanics here with a rotating alphabet — then graduate to the site's full Dancing Men Cipher Bureau, which writes the actual little men.
Drawn from The Adventure of the Dancing Men (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1903) — read the summary & analysis, or try The Fifth Message, this story's game. More at the Game Room and the tool bench.