What was challenging about #pigpen code? by Jim Bentley https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2 What was fun? What was confusing? What helped you unlock the code? en-us 2017-01-19 16:33:39 UTC 2026-01-26 19:40:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Chris https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142910 Something that was fun about unlocking this code today was figuring out what the code was. The only confusing part was trying to figure out what the dots meant. Something that was also fun was writing out a message one of are own. One thing that helped us unlock was the hint that Mr. Bentley gave us.]]> 2017-01-19 16:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142910 Maddy https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142925 It was very fun to find out what  the code was and it was also fun to work together with my team. The message was confusing by it self because we didn't know what it was and we had a lot of questions to help us figure out the code. All of the hints Mr. Bentley gave us helped us unlocked the code. Another thing that helped us unlock the code was working as a team and sharing ideas.]]> 2017-01-19 16:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142925 Jared https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142951 One thing that was challenging about pigpen was that in the beginning. But once we got into the pigpen sentence and we found out what the symbols meant until our teacher gave us some hints. But once we found what the shapes meant for the "#", my group found that the rest of the alphabet could fit into the "X" shapes. When we put the letters in the x we did not know where we would put the letters but once we found out it was a little confusing. Once I got down what all the shapes meant it was not as complex as it was in the beginning because all it was is looking back at the coding translate to actually translate the message the code that Mr.Kauffman sent us.]]> 2017-01-19 16:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142951 Nia https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142958 2017-01-19 16:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142958 Lisa https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142994 At first it was very hard and i had no idea what it said it just looked like weird writing . But when my team worked together it was not as complex. One of the challenges i had was understanding the code.]]> 2017-01-19 16:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148142994 Nick https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143006 It was sooooo fun but a challenge.One of the challenges was that i new a code had numbers so i thut that may the x was 24 but it was not so i diereses. are code will make...#save beef]]> 2017-01-19 16:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143006 Ella D. :) https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143103 Today I solved a pigpen coding message with my team. My teammates are Jared, Diego, and Nick. At first it was kind of hard because I had no idea what I was even looking at until one of the other students made a observation. Once that student said that, EVERYTHING made sense.  It was challenging when we were trying to see what the message was, and if it was the first letter or the second letter in the code. But then we figured out that the dots that were in the code meant it was the second letter. If there were no dots, then that meant it was the first letter. It was actually very challenging when I was trying to write my own message with code. We had to do dots, code letters, and make a message that was a pigpen. Mr. Kauffman , a high school teacher in New York shared the Pigpen with us. He challenged us to figure it out. When Mr. Bentley showed it to us, he gave us less clues then Mr. Kauffman gave him. But we still figured it out in the end. Overall it was really fun and I want to do this again.]]> 2017-01-19 16:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143103 AnhThu https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143134 When I first saw the pigpen code, it was challenging for me because I don't know what the dots mean ,and does the dot give a clues for the code.But it was easier when Mr.Bentley gave us some hints . It was fun that our group ( me, Zaya , Sineah  and  Yulia ) can working together and talk with each other. Sometimes I has learned something from my group too. After a few minutes ,we has figured it .

]]> 2017-01-19 16:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143134 Alexis https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143147 one thing that i though that was very confusing was there was dots in the word and i honestly did not know what they were i thought they were there to make it pretty but no there was meaning to it. ]]> 2017-01-19 16:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143147 Zaya https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143181 The whole puzzle in general was fun because I just like doing puzzles. Yulia was a really big help when decoding it because she had an idea that maybe if the symbol had a dot it would mean the second letter( that's why it always good to listen when people share ideas) and I probably wouldn't have found out what the dots mean without her. But we would have never figured it out without each one of our team members.]]> 2017-01-19 16:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143181 Yulia https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143210 I really enjoyed figuring out this pigpen code. It was fun and a little confusing at first but it wasn't frustrating confusing. My team instantly got it as soon as one of my teammates  thought of the "hashtag" symbol like a dial pad on a phone with letters. Once we filled that in we kinda just amused that the x must have the last  8 letters of the alphabet that didn't fit in the hashtag and  the dots next to the shapes mean the second letter in the hashtag or the x. The shape of the code told us what letters we needed. But it really helped when Mr. B showed us the first 2 letters in the hashtag because then we knew we were right.]]> 2017-01-19 16:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143210 Carlos C. https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143250 the thing that was most fun was what the message said after you decoded it.the challenging was find how to decoded and the dots on the paper was confusing to because we didn't know if that was a mistake or that was suppose to be there.and the thing that helped were the hints that Mr B gave us otherwise we wouldn't of had solved the code]]> 2017-01-19 16:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143250 Sineah https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143269 Today in my class my teacher had us do a secret code and we had to figure it in our group tables. The challenging part about the secret code is that you have to think a LOT in order to try and figure out one small detail. The other thing that was hard about the secret code is that our group had to keep looking at the secret code. When one of us would share an idea about what they thought about the secret code then the someone else would come up with and idea share their idea. That is what was challenging to me about the pigpen.]]> 2017-01-19 16:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143269 Diego https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143448
  • I thought this was very hard. But I kept trying and by taking everyone's ideas and turning them into one 1, I found the first word out, "what." At first I didn't think it was right so I didn't share my thoughts. But I shared my thoughts after a while because I felt like it just to see if I was right. And apparently it was right. I didn't know that was the first part of the code. And after a while we figured out that the period stands for the second letter on our grid. After thinking for a while we figured out the code..."What Is This?"     
    • ]]>     2017-01-19 16:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143448     Xavier https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143509 We finger out when Mr.Bentley give use some  hint's then we got it and we no what it says it what does it say?]]> 2017-01-19 16:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143509 Marcelo https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143598 The challenge for me was when Mr.Bentley first showed us pig pen I was very confused.I was shocked when I found out that it had something to do with the alphabet. Then I was also surprised that the strange writing meant letters. ]]> 2017-01-19 16:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143598 Ahmad https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143603 In the beginning, when Mr.Bentley presented this weird looking code that was given to him by a man in New York, Andrew Kauffman, it was extremely hard to decipher because there were too many theories that our team thought of, one of them being that each 2 letters in an area represent a symbol and we were correct about that theorie. The way that Mr.Bentley reaveled the letters of each code was like this: he first gave us the letters A and B then he revealed other letters and we filled in the rest of the chart. Since our team got the base of the code down when he revealed all of the letters we just cruised past the code in a matter of about 2 minutes. Here is what all of the symbols mean but this is not how Mr.Bentley revealed it to us.
    ]]>     2017-01-19 16:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143603     Nia https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143697 This was fun because this code gave me suspension. It was hard at first but when my team and I started to work together it didn't really seem that hard. The confusing part for me was the dot part. I had did something like this in 5th grade at my old school but we never had much time to solve it.  There was two grids one was a "x" and the other was a hashtag. When I first looked at it I was like, "I have no idea what was happening, like at all." What helped unlock this code was when Mr. Bentley gave us some little hints which really helped me to understand when my team and I were almost done I heard someone raise there hand and say that the dots probably meant the second letter and that was how we figured the code out it was complex but a very good source of thinking and working together too.]]> 2017-01-19 16:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143697 Ashlyn https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143786 Just to start the decoding was super fun. When Mr.B put the paper on the screen I thought that it was going to be "teacher fun" but turns out it wasn't. One thing I this thought was confusing was when I first saw it it reminded me of a different language. It was hard to put the rest of the alphabet into the "x" shape because we didn't know where to start but once we got a hint we figured it out. Once we figured out the alphabet it was pretty easy. The final answer was "what does this say?". After we finished it Lila and I looked at it closer and realized that the dots mean the second letter and we face palmed ourselves. I'm more than willing to do this again.]]> 2017-01-19 16:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143786 Lila https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143863 I had a lot of fun decoding this pigpen! At first it was pretty confusing. By the end of this activity it became quite obvious what it said. My group and I by the end still weren't really sure what all the little dots meant but we finally noticed that the dots meant the second letter of the two. For example, a square with a dot in the middle would mean the coded letter would be a "J" instead of an "I." We also realized that the hashtag was kind of like the dial on a cellphone were each number represented a couple of letters. We then assumed that the rest of the 8 remaining letters that didn't fit on the hashtag would then go on the "X." The thing that probably confused me the most was what order the letters went on the "X." My team and I worked pretty well together but I felt that not everyone participated and put their full effort into this code. ]]> 2017-01-19 16:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148143863 Elizabeth https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148145696 As we were decoding the pigpen I got confused at first. I got confused about whether the code was symbolizing numbers or letters. It got a little bit easier as we kept moving along through the pigpen. It was a little bit challenging for my team and I because we only had two people in our group but my partner and I worked together very well. Decoding the pigpen was really fun to me. I also liked making our own codes which the class would solve. The thing that helped me unlock the code was the first hint that Mr.Bentley gave us. He put down the letters A and B in this symbol: #. He put it in the symbol at the top left corner. That hint gave us all a very clear understanding of the code.]]> 2017-01-19 16:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148145696 Ella H https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148145857 When Mr.Bentley was showing us the decoding page, I was confused. All of the different shapes were hard to decode in the beginning. After he gave us few more hints it was easier to understand. When we discussed, the different ways we thought how to solve it as a group it was challenging to place the pair of letters in each different sections of the "x" because we didn't know exactly how to do it. We were also confused about the dots, now I know that they mean the second letter. Overall it was really fun to decode. It was also fun to create our own pigpen code.]]> 2017-01-19 16:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148145857 Aaron https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148145916 I think that the problem was hard at first.But when I got hints I started to understand it. My group did good to find out the answer. ]]> 2017-01-19 16:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148145916 Trevor https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148145920 I think that solving the code is very hard if you don't have the letters, if you don't have the letters than the # and the X could be any thing, like you could put numbers in the # and X instead of letters if you don't have the letters, but once you get the letters and figure out that the dot means second letter it is pretty easy, because all you need to do is find the shape on the # or X, and deter main if it has a dot near it.]]> 2017-01-19 16:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148145920 Aidan https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148146080 I think it was fun trying to find out what the symbols are. I think it was confusing when we had no cipher to help us crack the code. It helped to unlock the code when Mr.B. showed us the first corner of the # symbol then everything made sense. ]]> 2017-01-19 16:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148146080 Desirae https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148146325 Today Mr.Bentley showed our class a weird code, it was kinda hard to try and find out what it ment. So we used a hashtag sign and a X to help us. Also Mr.Bentley let us make our own code as fun for us.]]> 2017-01-19 16:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jbentley7/ac5ecyxmp9w2/wish/148146325