Yeah, I'm one of those teachers

[vertelemming]

Over the weekend, I bought a book on codes and ciphers.

Today in tutoring I set the students a test.

Yes, these two facts are related.

Every week, if they haven't progressed any further in cracking the cipher I used, I will solve one more step towards plaintext. If the manage to solve it on their own, I'll work up some sort of prize. Maybe I'll arrange a field trip, or something.

For the curious, here's the ciphered text. Each row of numbers represents one letter. Each paragraph break marks the end of a word. Right aligned for your viewing pleasure.

00001011
54
11
1A
00100001
40

21
24
00001111
17
36

19
00001111
17
34
29

00010010
27
41

16
00001111
13
36
2A

00010111
40

11
20

00001111
25
21