The Detective's Spy Glass Cipher Wheel - Escape Room Prop

The Detective's Spy Glass Decoder Wheel is a unique cipher wheel

perfect for escape rooms and related activities such as birthday parties, team building events, and pop-up games.

The decoder ring comes with easy to follow instructions do you will be able to start encoding and decoding messages in no time.

A great way to build bonds and stay in touch with friends and family who live far away by sending encoding messages which they will only be able to read by using their cipher to decode the secret message.

How to use the Detective's Spy Glass Cipher Wheel:

The Detectives Spy Glass Decoder wheel is a substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet.

For example, with a left shift of 3, D would be replaced by A, E would become B, and so on.

The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it in his private correspondence. How cool is that?

All you need to do to get started is pick a cipher key. This will represent the starting position when encoding and decoding messages.

For example if you align the cipher so that A on the bottom wheel and F on the top wheel match you must maintain this alignment throughout the encoding
process.

The person decoding the message must also know to set the decoder wheel to AF.