Brain Games - Code Breaker Spiral-bound – February 15, 2017

Challenging for newbies in some puzzles. Lots of math but not difficult problems. I enjoy it very much.

Fun. I'm very new with decrypting ciphers so I didn't know what to expect. The puzzles start easy and advance throughout the book. Plus there are a variety of games. I wish the book had blank pages (for notes).

Brain Games – Code Breaker. There is a great variety of puzzles for various interests. In the puzzles I enjoy, I found code errors in some of them. These errors, however, made it a bit more challenging for me. When I found the first error, from then on I was mentally prepared for errors. These are the errors on brain games puzzles I tackled:Page 28:FLOWERSWord Buttercup (2, 3, 11, 14, 15, 19, 21): The letter “E” is No. 13 on the puzzle; but No. 13 does not appear on the list of codes for the word “Buttercup.” No. 14 which is letter “A” on the puzzle appears on the list but is not part of the word.Page 53:QUEEN OF SONG CryptogramLine 1 – “Grammy” – The code letter “V” is by itself between the words “thirteen” and “rammy,” thus giving the impression that “V” could be the letters “A” o “I” in the puzzle. However, it is the letter “G” as coded: “VJMEEL” for GRAMMY.Page 63:CODEWORDGiven letter “M” under No. 8 should be letter “Y” since letter “M” is actually No. 9 as denoted in the words: Across: Female and Diadem; and Down: Volume and Amethyst.Page 64:LETTER LESSON CryptogramLine 4 – In the word “REMARKABLY,” Coded: “DFYJGYZEQ” the first letter “R” is missing.Page 90:HEROES CryptogramLines 3 and 5. The letter “B” is not coded. It appears as itself in the coded words: “BD” for BE, “BE” for BY, and “BDIMAD” for BECOME.Page 127:QUOTABLE CRYPTOGRAMSThe letter “F” is not coded. It appears as itself in the coded words:Third cryptogram: “GXVTYHFWM” for WONDERFUL, “FEOQ” for FACT, “HYFMYOQ” for REFLECT, “AHXFXWVT” for PROFOUND,Fifth cryptogram: “UF” for IF, “XF” for OF and “FHEVCMUV” for FRANKLIN.Page 133:CODEWORDLine 3, letter D in word (down): “PRODNEY” there is not letter 29th in the English alphabet. The No. 29 should be No. 24Page 144:FOUR FUN FACTS CryptogramsThe letter “N” is not coded. It appears as itself in the coded words:First Cryptogram: “ZN” for IN and “TN” for AN.Second Cryptogram: “TNRMWUG” for ANOTHER.Third Cryptogram: “EWUN” for WHEN, “TN” for AN, “PNVUGARSUG” for UNDERCOVER, “TQUNM” for AGENT, “ZVUNMZML” for IDENTITY, and “YIREN” for BLOWN.Fourth Cryptogram: ““EWUN” for WHEN, “TN” for AN, “PNVUGARSUG” for UNDERCOVER, “TQUNM” for AGENT, “ZNARNJUCPUNMZTI” for INCONSEQUENTIAL, “ZNDRGKTMZRN” for INFORMATION, “UNUKL” for ENEMY, “ZN” for IN. “ZNDRGKTMZRN” for INFORMATION, and “AWZAFUN” for CHICKEN.

I bought this to keep my mind active and these puzzles definitely make you think. They are creative and fun.

Enjoyed the book from the beginning to the end. Highly recommend!

Some of the puzzles are fine, but others have annoying issues. I love cryptograms, but the ones in this book are much too tight to comfortably work on. Not only are the lines very close together, but the letter spacing is very tight. Other puzzles have some boxes shaded with directions to unscramble the letters that end up in them. The shading is so dark, it's hard to see what you wrote in them. In crosswords, they don't tell you if an answer is made up of more than one word. For instance, the clue was "_____ making this up!" I guessed "you're" when the answer was "I'm not". I find myself skipping puzzles frequently. There's a fantastic mixed puzzle book from this publisher - I forget the exact name, but there's a woman in a lounge chair on the cover - that blows this book away. I wish I could find another like it. This one is disappointing in both variety and quality.

Bought it for my friend who loves codes and puzzles. She is loving it

My dad enjoyed the challenge