She tried a different approach: she looked at the keyboard layout. Each group might be a word typed with hands shifted one key to the left on a QWERTY keyboard.
Finally, she gave up on complex ciphers and simply read the string aloud: She said it slowly: “em double-you cue ay — em cue bee ar aitch — ay el eff why ess bee double-you kay — cue eye double-you dee zee.” mwqa-mqbrh-alfysbwk-qiwdz
Layla loved puzzles. She stared at the sequence and noticed it looked like a cipher. “What if each group is a word shifted in the alphabet?” she thought. She tried a different approach: she looked at
Her younger brother, playing nearby, laughed. “That sounds like nonsense words!” She stared at the sequence and noticed it
That gave: — still cryptic.
Layla smiled, closed the journal, and whispered the real message aloud: