You are a telegraph clerk. Messages arrive as Morse code. Decode them at the desk, and new skills open as you get better.
How to play
The card on the left is a Morse chart. Hide or show it with the small tab.
The big sheet is the incoming message. The telegram card is where you answer.
Type on the keyboard. Backspace erases. A wrong letter shakes the card.
You start with Read: type the letters you see in Morse.
Finish words to unlock Send, then Hear, then longer words, sentences, and numbers.
Tap the telegraph key for a short signal. Hold it for a long one. The spacebar does the same.
Tap Hear it to play a message again. Open ? any time for more notes.
How this works
The card on the left is a Morse chart. Each letter and number has a pattern of short and long marks. You can hide or show it with the small tab on the chart. On the last level it starts hidden.
The big sheet is the incoming message. Sometimes it shows Morse. Sometimes it shows letters for you to send. Sometimes it is blank because you need to listen.
The telegram card is where your answer is written. Type on the keyboard. Backspace erases.
The telegraph key sits under the card. Tap it for a short signal. Hold it for a long one. The spacebar does the same thing. The key lights up while you are sending.
The wooden sounder also sits under the card. It plays Morse out loud. Tap it if you want to hear the message again.
The small list on the left is what you can practice. You start with Read. Send, Hear, longer words, sentences, and numbers unlock as you finish more words. Once a skill is open, you can check or uncheck it. Numbers stay off until you turn them on. If no skill is checked, the desk still gives you a Read round.
Your rank goes up as you finish words and keep a good percent correct. The last rank is Morse Code Master.
Timing practice helps you get used to how long to hold the key. You can start it here any time.
Telegraphs
A telegraph sent messages over a wire using electricity. Morse code turns letters into short and long signals so they can travel that way.
One office tapped the message on a key. Another office heard those signals and wrote the letters down. That is how people sent news, train orders, and personal messages before phones were common in every building.
Later, the telephone, radio, and the internet took over most of that work.
Where it still shows up
SOS is a Morse distress signal that a lot of people still recognize.
Amateur radio operators still use Morse. Some ships and aircraft keep it as a backup way to send a short message.
You can also tap Morse on a pipe or flash it with a light if you cannot talk or send a text.
