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The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms: Over 600 Mystery Codes to Be Cracked! (Mammoth Book of) | 
 enlarge | Author: Elonka Dunin
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 105801
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 600
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0786717262
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9780786717262
ASIN: 0786717262
Publication Date: April 11, 2006
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Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! 2006 Paperback.
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Book Description
Secret messages, encoded predictions, cryptic clues — never have cryptogram puzzles been so popular, fueled by phenomena like The Da Vinci Code and Bible Code. Here is a major new collection of brain teasing cryptograms and other enciphered challenges to satisfy every level of puzzle aficionado. The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms contains over 400 encoded puzzles, ranging from easy substitution puzzles and messages or quotations in code where each letter stands for another, to fiendishly difficult ciphers. This book also includes helpful tips and pointers, plus famous unsolved real-world cryptograms like the Dorabella cipher, Kryptos fourth section, Zodiac killer ciphers, Linear A, and Rongorongo script to ensure that the challenge never ends.
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 Casual Amusement April 21, 2006
10 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book is a nice enough collection of more than 600 puzzles for one's enjoyment but is hardly more than a simple introduction to the most common codes and ciphers. It repeats the same general knowledge usually found by a simple internet search on cryptography.
 Learning from the Best! March 29, 2006
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
Elonka Dunin, one of the sharpest cryptographers of this or any other age, has created a superb tutorial of cryptography --an entire classroom in a single book! A reader can be at any level of skill in cryptography and achieve full enjoyment of this marvelous work. Excellent coverage of the latest in cryptograms, including Da Vinci codes and the hardest puzzle to challenge experts in a decade: KRYPTOS (Google it!) This book could be your training ground for solving the best of unsolved cryptograms of this and recent centuries.
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