diff --git a/cipher.py b/cipher.py
index 0e772db..581ac4c 100644
--- a/cipher.py
+++ b/cipher.py
@@ -1 +1,15 @@
-# add your code here
+
+alphabet = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z']
+phrase = input("Please enter the phrase you wish to encode: ")
+phrase = phrase.lower()
+cipherPhrase = ""
+
+for char in phrase:
+    if char in alphabet:
+        position = alphabet.index(char)
+        newPosition = (position + 5) % 26
+        cipherPhrase += (alphabet[newPosition])
+    else:
+        cipherPhrase += char
+
+print(cipherPhrase)
diff --git a/cipherXL.py b/cipherXL.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e50ca0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cipherXL.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import string
+
+alphabet = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z']
+
+cipherShift = input("please enter the number of characters you wish to shift for this cipher: ")
+
+while not cipherShift.isdigit():
+    print("Invalid input.  Please enter a valid number.")
+    cipherShift = input("please enter the number of characters you wish to shift for this cipher: ")
+
+cipherShift = int(cipherShift)
+
+phrase = input("Please enter the phrase you wish to encode: ")
+cipherPhrase = ""
+
+for char in phrase:
+    if char == ' ':
+        cipherPhrase += " "
+    elif char.isdigit() or char in string.punctuation:
+        cipherPhrase += char
+    else:
+        position = alphabet.index(char.lower())
+        newPosition = (position + cipherShift) % 26
+        
+        if char.isupper():
+            cipherPhrase += (alphabet[newPosition].upper()) 
+        else: 
+            cipherPhrase += (alphabet[newPosition])            
+    # print(position)
+    # print(alphabet[position])
+    # print(newPosition)
+    # print(alphabet[newPosition])
+
+#print(cipherPhrase)
+print(f'The phrase you input was: \"{phrase}\"')    
+print(f'The phrase has been scambled to be: \"{cipherPhrase}\"')