Stories / The "Gloria Scott"

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The Every-Nth-Word Cipher Desk

Write your own Gloria Scott messages — hide a sentence inside harmless padding, or strip one out.

Beddoes hid a warning in game-dealer's chatter. Type a message and encode it the same way — or paste a suspicious note and decode it at any interval.

Drawn from The "Gloria Scott" (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1893) — read the summary & analysis, or try The Message That Killed Trevor, this story's game. More at the Game Room and the tool bench.