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An acrostic puzzle published in State Magazine in 1986. An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer.
A cryptogram is a type of puzzle that consists of a short piece of encrypted text. [1] Generally the cipher used to encrypt the text is simple enough that the cryptogram can be solved by hand. Substitution ciphers where each letter is replaced by a different letter, number, or symbol are frequently used.
ROT13 is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter after it in the Latin alphabet. ROT13 is a special case of the Caesar cipher which was developed in ancient Rome, used by Julius Caesar in the 1st century BC. [1] An early entry on the Timeline of cryptography.
The Cardan grille was invented as a method of secret writing. The word cryptography became the more familiar term for secret communications from the middle of the 17th century. Earlier, the word steganography was common. [citation needed] The other general term for secret writing was cypher - also spelt cipher. There is a modern distinction ...
CRYPTOGRAPHY PUZZLES Celebrity Cipher "We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number pi." − Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee (Distributed by Andrews McMeel)
4 Pics 1 Word continues to delight and frustrate us. Occasionally, we'll rattle off four to five puzzles with little effort before getting stuck for upwards of an hour, whereupon which we eventually
There are also spiral puzzles where words must be entered in only one direction. [4] The last letter of one word is also the first letter of the next word. [5] Without overlapping letters, this puzzle is no more than a quiz with the appearance of a puzzle. For more difficult types of spiral puzzles, the numbering in the spiral is missing.
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