Hints:
- How many letters are left over?
- The puzzle is on a grid, so both location and content are important for each cell.
- Consider location first. How do 79 and 45 take you to the letters you have?
- Now content. Do you know what a ‘translation cipher’ is? For the locations of interest, write down what you see in the grid. Next to each of those letters write down what you turn it into using the “If” statement. What movement through the alphabet works for both cases?
- Apply these procedures to find a 4-letter answer for 853952103.
- Who was it who “gave battle in vain”?
Answer:
The answer to the question at the top of the puzzle page is “Yes”.