Games with Codes and Ciphers

Name: Games with Codes and Ciphers
Brand: Dover Publications
SKU: 9780486838465
Price: 6.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Item# 9780486838465

$6.99

Challenge your mind with intriguing brainteasers from the world of codes and ciphers. This collection offers activities inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories and U.S. Navy procedures. Engage in surreptitious writing, send secret messages and learn about fingerprinted words. Other puzzles include a foolproof code, three-letter patterns, and a nonreciprocal alphabet. Suitable for code-breakers aged 8 and up, these stimulating and entertaining challenges come with easy-to-follow directions and complete solutions.

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Intrigue your friends with birthday prophecies spin a mystifying wheel of fortune travel through the Valley of Fear and take on Dad's Challenge!

This collection presents scores of intriguing brainteasers from the fascinating world of codes and ciphers. Assembled by a master puzzle-maker these activities are inspired by sources as diverse as the Sherlock Holmes stories and the procedures of the U.S. Navy.

Code-breakers ages 8 and up can go on cryptic treasure hunts engage in surreptitious writing send secret messages and learn all about fingerprinted words.

Other puzzles feature a foolproof code (perfect for keeping a private diary) three-letter patterns a nonreciprocal alphabet and much more. The stimulating and entertaining challenges include easy-to-follow directions as well as complete solutions.