Below is a Father's Day letter I wrote when I was nine years old. It was in a brown envelope with a Scrooge McDuck sticker for a stamp. Evidently little has changed over the last 21 years as far as the author's general frame of mind and abundant geek idiosyncrasies go.
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| No idea what the symbols stand for. I used to ink up all sorts of weird symbols and mandalas. |
HELSINKI 7.11.1989
Hello Father! I'm doing well in school, and today I'm writing to you, as I'm sure you already notice. How are you doing there at home? (Like I didn't already know.) Solve this puzzle for starters! Solution at the bottom right corner. Below is the code cipher key.
5 10 15 20 25 29
ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQRST UVWXY ZÅÄÖ
ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQRST UVWXY ZÅÄÖ
8 25 22 28 28 9 19 28 14 16 28 9 21 2x28 ! ! !
Love, Oskari
[Answer: Happy Father's Day!!!!]
2 comments:
Probably wasn't too hard to crack! He would sometimes read books upside down to my great amusement, just because he could. With a long working history in manual print composition, film processing and the rest, upside down text or mirrored text was just the same old text for him. =)
Haha, "kuten jo huomaatkin varmasti" & "ihan niinkun sitä en tietäisi"! Näsäviisaat lapset on mahtavia, vähänniinkun minä pienenä toistamassa "mä oon ihan liian vanha tälläseen pelleilyyn" -tyylisiä lauseita.
P.s. tuolla on viimesen v-kirjaimen kohdalla virhe :(
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