Cipher Challenge Initial Reflection

I started this activity with no experience with cipher puzzles. This has made the activity challenging, as I often find myself struggling to make meaningful contributions to the group. I am making progress thanks to the help of my peers, but I still find it difficult to follow the solutions to these ciphers. I plan to use the slides that the more experienced members of the group have created in conjunction with the solutions to the early puzzles of the challenge to reverse engineer the general method I can use to solve these puzzles.