StoryWeaver Grades 3 and 4📖 Stories

The Laddoo Code

Saksham Arora · StoryWeaver · 2 min read
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Two boys look at a box of laddoos
A boy passes a note to a girl in the class.

One morning, in Class 2B...

“Psst, Anjali! Pass this note to Ritvik,” whispers Rahul.

Hands pass a note in the class.

Anjali passes the note to Madhu.

Madhu passes it to Anwar.

Anwar passes it to Sanya.

A girl passes a note to a boy in the class.

And Sanya passes it to Ritvik.

A boy reads the note sent by his friend and his friend winks at him.

Ritvik reads the note – Nani made laddoos!

Meet me behind the canteen.

Three students look around suspiciously while a teacher teaches.

But Anjali, Madhu, Anwar and Sanya have read it too.

A boy opens the box of laddoos in front of his friend.

“Laddoos!”

Three students ambush two boys holding the box of laddoos.

“Oh no, I don’t think we’re getting any...”

The students jump on the boys holding the box of laddoos.

Everyone jumps on the laddoos.

The students leave the boys with an empty dubba of laddoos

Soon, there are no laddoos left.

A boy writes an encrypted note and passes it on to a girl.

The next day…

“Anjali, pass this to Ritvik, na?”

The note is opened by the girl but it is hard to read.

Anjali tries to read the note again, but can’t understand it.

Students pass the note around but are unable to read it because it is encrypted.

Madhu can’t read it either. Neither can Anwar. Nor can Sanya.

But Ritvik knows exactly how to read it.

The note when wrapped around a pencil, reveals the hidden message.

Ritvik wraps the strip of paper around his pencil, just the way Rahul did when he wrote it.

And the secret message is revealed!

Two boys finally eat their laddoos.

Making and Breaking the Code

Rahul converts his message into a secret code so that no one else can read it. This method of protecting information is called encryption.

Ritvik wraps Rahul’s note around his pencil to reveal the message. This method of changing encrypted information back into plain text is called decryption.

Computers also use encryption and decryption to keep information safe.

Want to send secret messages like Rahul and Ritvik?

Wrap a strip of paper around a pencil and write your message on the wrapped paper. Then unwrap the paper and give it to your friend. Your friend can read the secret message by wrapping the paper around another pencil.