INTERCEPTED FRAGMENT 11 of 12

RAVEN

Grid transposition

Agent Eyes Only

The letters are all here — CANTOR just shuffled the order they were sent in.

Grid5 × 5

IMOKX NAWEX DPHYX ISIXX ATSXX

How to read it

  1. Draw the grid below on paper.
  2. Each group of letters in the fragment is ONE COLUMN. Fill column 1 from top to bottom, then column 2, and so on.
  3. Now read the finished grid ACROSS the rows, left to right.
  4. Ignore any padding letters that run off the end of the message.

Your grid

Copy this 5 × 5 grid onto paper. The fragment is split into 5 groups of 5 letters, and each group is one column: fill the first column top to bottom, then the next, and so on. Then read the finished grid across the rows. The last 7 letters are padding — ignore them.

When you have it

Write your decoded line down and call your handler over.