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Cracking Codes and Cryptograms For Dummies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sutherland, Denise.
- Consumer Dummies Staff, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- For dummies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ciphers.
- Cryptography.
- Galois theory.
- Morse code.
- Local Subjects:
- Ciphers.
- Cryptography.
- Galois theory.
- Morse code.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- Cracking codes and cryptograms for dummies
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Wiley, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The fast and easy way to crack codes and cryptograms Did you love Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol? Are you fascinated by secret codes and deciphering lost history? Cracking Codes and Cryptograms For Dummies shows you how to think like a symbologist to uncover mysteries and history by solving cryptograms and cracking codes that relate to Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, the Illuminati, and other secret societies and conspiracy theories. You'll get easy-to-follow instructions for solving everything from the simplest puzzles to fiendishly difficult ciphers using secret codes
- Contents:
- Cracking Codes & Cryptograms For Dummies®; Foreword; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Code and Cryptogram Strategies; Chapter 1: Clueing You In about Codes and Cryptograms; Chapter 2: Simplifying Codes and Cryptograms; Part II: Secret Stories, Codes, and Cryptogram Puzzles; Chapter 3: Solving Stories; Chapter 4: Letter Substitution Cryptograms; Chapter 5: Number Substitution Cryptograms; Chapter 6: Symbol Substitution Cryptograms
- Chapter 7: Caesar /Shift CiphersChapter 8: Masonic Ciphers; Chapter 9: Rail Fence Ciphers; Chapter 10: Keyboard Codes; Chapter 11: Assorted Ciphers; Chapter 12: Anagrams and Cryptic Clues; Chapter 13: Double Level Puzzles; Part III: Hints and Answers to the Cryptos and Codes; Chapter 14: Hints to Help Crack the Cryptograms and Puzzles; Chapter 15: Answers to All Cryptograms and Puzzles; Appendix: Historical Background to the Conspiracy Stories
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612316999
- 9781282316997
- 1282316990
- 9780470599419
- 0470599413
- OCLC:
- 536076451
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