Customer Reviews

Clever Cryptograms

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In this book, Louise Moll has collected 10 quotes each from some of the best minds ever and encrypted them. Accompanied by Jim Sharpe's excellent illustrations of each person before their quotes. People included are: St. Thomas Aquinas, Einstein, Epicurus, Gandhi & Oscar Wilde to name a few. There are 30 in all. The quotes range from sentimental to hilarious. Hours of enjoyment to be had by all who love good cryptograms.

I just began doing cryptograms again - after about a year-long hiatus - and I have to say that I had forgotten just how fun & frustrating decoding cryptograms could be!

"Clever Cryptograms" is filled with puzzles that, when solved, provide the reader with a quote that is either inspirational &/or thought provoking - food for both the mind & spirit.

Each "chapter" focuses on the quotes of one specific person, including: St. Thomas Aquinas, Pearl Buck, Rene Descartes, Albert Einstein, and many, many, more.

The only reason I gave this book 4 starts instead of 5 is because there are no hints - so, if you get stuck, you have to go the full solution and, at least for me, my eyes wind up wandering and I tend to see a lot more of the solution than I wanted...

Overall, I think this is a fun cryptogram book, filled with much food for thought. So, if you can live without the hints, I'd recommend that you give it a try.

I recommend this book to anyone who loves good word fun. This is by far the most enjoyable book of cryptograms to be found on the market, and is very similar in the puzzle style found in Sean-Alonzo's underground hit Cryptogrammaton.

This inexpensive, sturdy, entertaining book contains 300 pleasurable, insightful and enlightening, even witty, quotes drawn from 30 of the world's most renowned thinkers, sages and philosophers, forming an eclectic collection that includes Epictetus, Cicero, Descartes, Wilde, Jung, Whitman and Einstein, among others. The quotes are encoded in substitution cipher of varying difficulty, and are guaranteed to keep you busy for hours as you find yourself using your intuition, your knowledge of spelling and syntax, and even your familiarity with each quoted personality to figure them out.
The book also contains an introduction with general hints for solving cryptograms and, of course, the solutions for each puzzle are presented at the back of the book, along with an index of authors and topics for those searching for quotes from one or another individual or subject in particular.
If you love cryptograms, buy this book.
--Reviewed by M. E. Volmar

I bought this book for a real cryptogram nut. She can knock out a puzzle in 15 minutes, and told me this book has really challenged her skills. But this is what she loves about the book. I find the best pricing for these puzzle books on Amazon. I will definitely purchase more of these from Amazon. This is the third one of these I have purchased from Amazon, and will look for more of Louise B. Moll's work.

If the author wants you to buy the book, the least it should contain a set of hints.I will not buy this author again. Seems a lazy effort to me