Prisoner's Tap Code
Translation details
Model:mistral-large-2512.Translated text
Section titled “Translated text”The prisoner taps his message through the wall: two quick taps in succession—a dash; one tap—a dot; a longer pause—the end of a letter; an even longer pause—the end of a word. Who can decipher it best?
This game belongs to the group of competitive games that a patrol leader must constantly organize during gatherings. Tapped messages; secret messages—for example, by blinking eyes or one eye, or by subtle movements of the lips, fingers, shoes, etc.; light signals from a window to the street or somewhere in a park or outside the city; sudden contests in deciphering flag messages, and so on, should constantly diversify gatherings and separate lectures on the “theory” of signaling—on finding a position, dividing functions at a signaling station, relay stations, agreed-upon signs and abbreviations, other alphabets, signaling devices and apparatuses, the history of signaling, and the like. It is highly desirable to organize an excursion to a post office or telegraph school, try using a Morse apparatus, build primitive devices, and so on. However, everything, including the games described above, is only preparation; the proper field for signaling practice is the excursion terrain, vast, hilly fields. It should be organized there as often as possible.
Source scan: Polona / National Library, marked “Public Domain”. View scan — image 69.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Juliusz Dąbrowski, Gry i zabawy w izbie harcerskiej (1934)
- Printed pages: 67–68
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 67
- Read the source text: gih-158