Review of
Mysticryptics,
by Maurie Taylor
Five out of five stars
The puzzles in this collection are easy to solve,
provided you can understand and carry out a basic substitution cipher. In
general, the puzzle is a series of words on two pages, where symbols have
replaced the letters. The symbols are numbers or pictograms in a 1-1
correspondence with the letters of the Latin alphabet. To get the reader
started, the first word of the puzzle is given, the clues are then the letter-symbol
correspondences that are known, and the reader is to move sequentially through
the remainder of the words.
The symbols used are often related to the subject of
the problem. For example, the problem based on basketball skills has pictograms
of players in various action poses. Within the intellectual reach of people in
later elementary school and older, this is a book that will amuse, challenge and
entertain the reader.
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