How This Book Is Organized

Cracking Codes & Cryptograms For Dummies

✓ If you want to discover more about letter frequency

analysis — a basic skill for solving cryptograms — you

can delve into coauthor Denise’s book Word Searches

For Dummies (Wiley). For an academic treatise, try

Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and Their Solution by

Helen Fouché Gaines (Dover).

How This Book Is Organized

This book is divided into three parts. Read on for more

information about each.

Part I: Code and Cryptogram

Strategies

We start off by giving you some background information on

codes and cryptograms, both from an historical perspective

and from a practical perspective. If you want to know what

sorts of secret codes were used during World War II, or if

you want to know how to solve a Caesar Box Cipher, head to

this part.

Part II: Secret Stories, Codes,

and Cryptogram Puzzles

This part makes up the majority of the book and includes the

super-secret conspiracy stories as well as all the puzzles you

need to solve the stories! Decipher some of the additional

puzzles to discover some entertaining quotations.

Part III: Hints and Answers

to the Cryptos and Codes

This part is exactly what it sounds like. Here we give you hints

and answers for all the puzzles in the book.

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