🤷 Excuses

This pack hides the excuses everyone has reached for at least once. Answers are full sentences rather than single words, which makes them the longest ciphers in the collection — and the most satisfying to crack.

Hint: Classic school lie

🍐🕹 📓🚎🦓 📘🚙🚡 🍐🕹 🚕🚎🍐🚡🥩🚎🥜🏉
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My dog ate my homework
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Hint: Late arrival reason

📔 🦇🛸🏑🥎 🥎🎷🎸🌂🐹 🛸🥜 🥎📔💸🍞
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I lost track of time
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Hint: Busy roads

🍆🕯🥥🐔🐔🏹🦍 🚌🥥🚈 🥥 🚖🏹🍊🕷🍆👛🥥🕯📄
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Traffic was a nightmare
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Hint: Overslept excuse

🚞🚝 🍑🌰🍑🚥🚞 🐮🥩🐮 💻🦑🍌 🐢🦑 🦑🐤🐤
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My alarm did not go off
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Hint: No money on me

🦑 🎻🎭🦟🚌🎭🍗 🎲🧇 🐆🥖🐭🐭🚊🍗
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I forgot my wallet
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Hint: Public transport failure

🍉🔫🚒 🍉🚏🚐🦆🐰 🚋🚐🍟 🥒🚐🐰🥒🚒🏍🏍🚒🐙
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The train was cancelled
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Hint: No battery left

🐢🍆 🚚🗞🐤🥩🚀 🕷💍🚀🕷
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My phone died
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Hint: Vague illness

🦓 🐦🚄🦓🐻📙 🦓 🤺🍑 🔖🦈🍑🦓🐻🛰 🍋🦈🦋🐻 🦋🦓🐦🚄 💸🦈🍑🐡🐦🚄🦓🐻🛰
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I think I am coming down with something
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Hint: Missing message

🚡🥥 🐨🥨🎸🥥 🥥👠 🥊🏒 ⏰🏓🍖🥊 📚👠📗🐛🥨🚑
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It went to my spam folder
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Hint: Locked out

👛 👾🛹🏀🍈🍉 🛶🛹🚐 🚠👛🛶🍉 🍓📤 🥊🦧📤🏎
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I could not find my keys
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Hint: Blaming the forecast

🍗🛵🚁 🦟🚁📒🍗🛵🚁🛰 🦟📒🏒 📒🍑📒🐋🚇🏒🍗 📱🚁
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The weather was against me
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Hint: Missed appointment

🚟💡 🚊🎲🌽 🍑🚠💡 🚟🍑 🍉🪁 🐭🎲⏳🚎🍑📩🎲🚧
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It was not in my calendar
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About this pack

You will find the classics here: the dog and the homework, the alarm that never went off, the traffic that was a nightmare. Because the answers are whole phrases, they carry the natural rhythm of English — short function words, repeated letters, familiar endings — and that rhythm is exactly what makes a long cipher easier to break than a short one.

Solving tips

• Start with the one and two-letter words. In a sentence they are almost always I, A, MY, or IT.
• Hunt for THE. A three-letter group that repeats across the sentence is very often THE, and it hands you three letters at once.
• Longer is easier. More text means more repeated letters, so do not be put off by the size of these ciphers.

Common questions

Are the answers shown?

Yes. Because these answers are full sentences, the panel under each puzzle gives you the whole phrase rather than a single word.

Why are these harder than the other packs?

They are longer, but that makes them easier once you start. A full sentence repeats letters far more than a single word does, so each letter you crack pays off several times.