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Winter Olympics Crypto-Families

Crypto-families are lists of related words that are encrypted with a letter substitution. In this case, all the lists are related to the Winter Olympics. Each list uses a different letter substitution. An example of a letter substition encrytion is like this: The word OLYMPICS could be encoded to XPQFROKE if O=X, L=P, Y=Q, etc.

GENERAL OLYMPIC WORDS

HNHRLC
XHBKUC
RKLEJRC
WJXFHLELEJR
OGKBQHRREKU
YJUB
CEUNHQ
MQJRSH
KRLDHXC
KLDUHLHC

WINTER OLYMPIC SPORTS

JGAFOH IMZUGSA
DNTMHE
IBHHL IMZUGSA
QGZVUDNS
LNCSDGVV IMGGSA
IMG WFXBGSA
VFAH
QNQIVHL
ISNCQNZOLGSA
TFOVGSA

WINTER OLYMPIC CITIES

AWODUSAMH
OWZWOU
NSHTO
KWEM LKWDTV
DWKZWHI
WKQMHNATKKM
CWHWFMAU
CWKN KWEM DTNI
UCKU
CXSWB AWKKMI

CRYPTO-FAMILIES WORDS

Here are all the words for all 3 lists in alphabetical order. Match the words to the right lists to help figure out the letter substitutions. Any duplicated words appear in more than one list. Cross the words out as you solve the codes.

ALBERTVILLE
ANTHEMS
ATHLETES
BIALTHON
BOBSLED
BRONZE
CALGARY
COMPETITION
CURLING
DOWNHILL SKIING
EVENTS
FIGURE SKATING
GOLD
HOCKEY
LAKE PLACID

LUGE
MEDALS
NAGANO
NATIONS
OSLO
QUADRENNIAL
SALT LAKE CITY
SARAJEVO
SILVER
SKI JUMPING
SNOWBOARDING
SPEED SKATING
SQUAW VALLEY
TURIN
VANCOUVER