You should have been able to decipher the message by frequency analysis: noting which letters are the most common.

Give yourself six points if you correctly decipher the message.

The design had the cipher alphabet and number disks coupled by friction, and there was often slippage when trying to decipher a message.

Only those at home with a decoder wheel could decipher the message.

Upon receiving the denial message the provider must decipher the message, reconcile it with the original claim, make required corrections and resubmit the claim.

The object was to decipher a word the audience had shouted.

I try to decipher his words, but they slide away from me.

You can't decipher the words.

In this case, the reader deciphers the word mostly by its context.

Their publication was long overdue and the format of the data makes it difficult for the public to decipher their meaning.

Humans have an insatiable need to decipher the meaning of life, a thirst which leads to stubborn belief systems and immense amounts of violence.

In addition, the fields of the driving licence are uniformly numbered, thus allowing the police to decipher the meaning of the fields without electronic access.

It's like learning a game, deciphering the meaning behind the words.