Cracking Codes and Cryptograms For Dummies®

Introduction

You may have picked up this book for any number of reasons. Perhaps you really like trying to crack the codes in Dan Brown's novels. Maybe you liked playing with secret decoder rings pulled from boxes of cereal as a kid. Perhaps you were the kind of person who as a youngster liked to share secret, coded messages with your friends. Then again, you may be one of the many adults who likes to exercise your brain with the challenge of making and breaking encrypted messages. Or maybe you're just a professional espionage agent who's looking for tips and some recreation. (Hey, it's a tough life. Spies need fun, too.)

In Cracking Codes & Cryptograms For Dummies you can find fun, recreation, challenges for your brain, and information for your mind. The puzzles in this book immerse you in a world like the one in Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (published by Doubleday Books), where conspirators in the United States have labored for centuries to keep some secrets hidden dark and deep. (But can anything stay secret ...?)

About This Book

Cracking Codes & Cryptograms For Dummies offers you the chance to use cryptography, cipher keys, symbols, and codes to reveal the narrative of three conspiracy stories, piece by piece and puzzle by puzzle. In this book, you're the symbologist; we give you everything you need to uncover the mysteries we set up in Chapter 3, and along the way we tell you about the use of codes and cryptograms in the world of secret societies.

The great thing is that you can ...