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"The Cryptogram Dictionary"
  While many people can't wait for the daily newspaper crossword puzzle, and may even consider doing it in ink as the real test of their expertise, no other puzzle is as difficult or as stimulating to do as a crytogram. Begun in the fifth century BC, and used as intellectual entertainment by monks during the Middle Ages, cryptograms are fascinating and fun to solve.
Usually a long stream of letters that appears to be gibberish, the trick to solving a cryptogram and decoding its message is to recognize that every letter really stands for another letter. To solve these puzzles, you need to figure out the letter patterns. How many times does a certain letter occur in a word? Knowing this and understanding that no letter can be substituted for itself, offers clues to the solution.
Author Lloyd MacCallum has been an aficionado of cryptograms for many years. Several years ago, he began compiling and coding words, many of which appear in the cryptograms. When he realized how important crossword puzzle and Scrabble dictionaries are, he knew that his mission was to create one for cryptogram puzzles.
The Cryptogram Dictionary is the perfect book for puzzle buffs. Arranged by three-through twenty-letter words, it also includes apostrophes. Readers can solve most cryptograms simply by looking up words that match letter combinations found in this dictionary.
A great gift and a wonderful reference tool, The Cryptogram Dictionary is as essential to any puzzle lover as a pencil!
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