Puzzles & Activities
Cozy Codes & Little Mysteries
100 Beginner-Friendly Cryptogram Puzzles
Decode a note, notice a detail and spend a little time on Willow Lane. One hundred original cryptograms follow thirty small neighborhood cases, with recurring characters, a fresh key for each puzzle and as much help as you want.
Paperback
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Inside the book
What you’ll find inside.
Meet bookseller Mara, retired mail carrier Ada and bicycle repairer Theo across ten visits. Spacious 19-point cipher rows have aligned writing spaces. Three stages supply four, three, then two starter letters; each puzzle retains three optional hints. Complete decoded notes and answers are printed at the back of this 192-page, 8.5 × 11-inch black-and-white paperback.
Who is it for?
US adults new to letter-substitution cryptograms; cozy-puzzle readers and gift buyers
Try before you choose
Take a look inside.
Open the publisher preview to see actual puzzle pages and printed solutions. Print at 100% or Actual size on US Letter paper to preserve the page scale.
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A real page. Room for your pencil.The pleasure is in the page
One note.
A few good clues.
The neighborhood story gives each code a small purpose. Work through the letter substitutions, use a starter letter, and turn to an optional hint whenever you like.
- On the page
- 19-point cipher rows and aligned writing spaces
- A little help
- Three stages of starter letters and three optional hints per puzzle
- At your own pace
- Complete decoded notes and answers at the back
- The paperback
- 192 pages · 8.5 × 11 inches · black-and-white interior