Let's Go On A Treasure Hunt w/ The SLJ

Today for the Summer Learning Journey we got to learn how to encrypt and decrypt Pigpen coding. Now, you may be think "What in the world in Pigpen coding? A pig stuck in a pen and you have to code the pig to get it out?" Well, if you guess was anything like that, I hate to tell you but... your incorrect! Pigpen coding looks like this... 

And I am sorry if this picture made it look even more confusing! But, I promise I got the hang of the Pigpen coding pretty quick, and I am sure you will too, if you try it! It's a little hard to explain, but I will try my best, here goes...

Here's how Pigpen Code Works -

Pigpen cipher is a code system and is made up of 4 main grids. The first grid is like a naughts and crosses grid, made up of 9 boxes.In each of the 9 squares there are 9 letters, one filling each box. In the first box, the letters go from A to I, just like this one...

Then you take the sides of the box that the letters are in. So the letters A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H and I will look something like this if they are translated into Pigpen code...

Anyways, for the next 9 letters in the alphabet you will need to do the same, draw a naughts and crosses box and fill in each box with a letter this time the letters in the box should be, J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R and should look like this...

But, instead of doing the exact same thing as last time you are going to add a small dot in the corner, translated into Pigpen code it should look like this...

Now, we have covered 18 letters of the alphabet and we have 8 to go, here is where the system changes again. Instead of a 3x3 box, you need to draw a big ( X ) like the one below. 

After you have drawn your ( X ) take the next 4 letters of the alphabet (S,T,U,V) and add them to the X, like this...

From here, it's like the first grid again, where you need to take the sides of box that the letter is in, meaning it should look like this...

Then, finally for the last 4 letters it like the one we just did with the ( X ) however we add dots, so it should look something like this... 

So, in conclusion the Pigpen alphabet should look like this...

After, finding out how Pigpen coding works, we were instructed to complete and fill out a deck of slides. Here is my completed copy of the Pigpen coding slides...

HINT- The beach is located in the North Island, the initials are AB

Tell me your guess in the comment section and I'll tell you if your correct or incorrect! 

Maybe you will even make me one to solve? 

I hope you enjoyed my blog post! This one was super fun, tricky, but I learnt lots of new things!