glumshoe:

During training, we played a game which at one point involved decrypting a A1Z26 cipher written on a whiteboard.

“You’re cheating!” complained the coordinator when I read it aloud without even bothering to decipher it.

No, my friend. I’ve just spent two summers in a row teaching middle schoolers to write and crack very simple ciphers. 1-20 20-8-9-19 16-15-9-14-20 9-20’19 10-21-19-20 12-9-11-5 18-5-1-4-9-14-7 1 23-5-9-18-4 6-15-14-20.