Theater Time (Art and Drama Vocabulary) | Printable Skills Sheets - Free Printable

Let’s solve this step by step.

We are given a code at the top of the page:

Code:
a b c d e f g h i l m n o p q r s t u w x y z
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Wait — let’s check that again. The letters listed are:

a b c d e f g h i l m n o p q r s t u w x y z

That’s 26 letters, but note: “j” and “k” and “v” are missing? Let’s count:

Actually, looking closely at the image (even though we’re not describing it), the code is written as:

Row 1: a b c d e f g h i l m n o p q r s t u w x y z
Row 2: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

But wait — there are only 25 letters shown? Let’s list them with positions:

Position: 1=a, 2=b, 3=c, 4=d, 5=e, 6=f, 7=g, 8=h, 9=i, 10=l, 11=m, 12=n, 13=o, 14=p, 15=q, 16=r, 17=s, 18=t, 19=u, 20=w, 21=x, 22=y, 23=z

Wait — that’s only 23? That can’t be right.

Actually, re-examining standard cipher puzzles like this, and since it says “use the code”, and the alphabet is usually A-Z mapped to 1-26, but here some letters might be skipped or misprinted? But in the passage, we see numbers like 20, 18, 5, etc., so likely it's a simple A=1, B=2, ..., Z=26 cipher.

Looking at the first word in the passage: “Someone” → broken into numbers: 19 15 13 5 15 14 5

Let’s test:

S = 19 ✔️
O = 15 ✔️
M = 13 ✔️
E = 5 ✔️
O = 15 ✔️
N = 14 ✔️
E = 5 ✔️

Perfect! So even if the printed code skips some letters visually, the actual mapping is standard: A=1, B=2, C=3, ..., Z=26.

So we’ll use:

A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7, H=8, I=9, J=10, K=11, L=12, M=13, N=14, O=15, P=16, Q=17, R=18, S=19, T=20, U=21, V=22, W=23, X=24, Y=25, Z=26

Now let’s decode each line.

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First sentence:
“Someone night we are going to the theater to see the ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___