Trivia Cryptograms - Newman, Stanley
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Cryptograms are word puzzles that feature encrypted sentences that solvers must decipher to reveal a message; in each puzzle, every letter is consistently replaced with a new letter (for instance, "Star Wars" might be encoded as THIS LIST). The solving process exercises both sides of the brain, as logic and letter patterns come into play in tandem. Author Stanley Newman provides entertaining and little-known facts that are sure to delight the solver once decoded. (For instance, did you know light bulbs in NYC's subway system turn in the opposite direction from standard bulbs, to discourage people from stealing them?)…mehr

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Cryptograms are word puzzles that feature encrypted sentences that solvers must decipher to reveal a message; in each puzzle, every letter is consistently replaced with a new letter (for instance, "Star Wars" might be encoded as THIS LIST). The solving process exercises both sides of the brain, as logic and letter patterns come into play in tandem. Author Stanley Newman provides entertaining and little-known facts that are sure to delight the solver once decoded. (For instance, did you know light bulbs in NYC's subway system turn in the opposite direction from standard bulbs, to discourage people from stealing them?)
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Stanley Newman is a puzzle creator, editor, and author. Newman has been the editor of the Newsday Sunday crossword puzzle since 1988 and the editor of the Newsday daily crossword puzzle since 1992. His puzzles have appeared regularly in Prevention, People, Sport, and Bloomberg Businessweek magazines. He has organized and conducted many puzzle and trivia events in the United States, including four seminars at the Smithsonian Institution and, in 2007, the first crossword tournament ever held at Yale University. He has authored or edited more than 200 puzzle books. A trivia buff, Newman has co-authored a trivia encyclopedia and under the Puzzlewright Press imprint Stanley Newman crossword puzzle books number 57 and counting! His popular Sunday Crosswords, Easy as Pie, and Hard as a Rock series have sold over 600,000 copies combined. Newman lives in Amityville, New York, with his wife and has three grown children.