Test your wits with a cryptogram for every day of the year! Start the year with this one: FXA SRZ YNJIJS UC SRZ YZXYUT VOXEEZT AUHI RZXIS XTE TUHIJYR AUHI YUHO. (MAY THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON GLADDEN YOUR HEART AND NOURISH YOUR SOUL). Solutions are cleverly scattered to prevent easy cheating. 128 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

If you love to spend hours solving cryptograms but can never find enough puzzles to satisfy your craving, then your're going to be delighted to get your hands on the 400 gems in this incredibly funny collection.

300 secret scrambled codes for you to break, each one a quotation from a philosopher like Sigmund Freud, Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and 26 more! Tips will get you started. Bonus: Spectacular portraits of the philosophers. 128 pages, 30 b/w illus., 5 1/4 x 8 1/4.

"An imaginative collection of 300 simple substitution ciphers with word divisions, based on the sayings of 30 of the world's greatest thinkers, writers and philosophers. In addition to challenging your brain, these cryptograms will provide food for thought with meaningful messages from Einstein, Shaw, Whitman, Disraeli, Gandhi, Santayana and 24 others. Each one is also depicted in an original full-page drawing. Brief tips for solving cryptograms are provided for neophytes, and answers are in the back of the book, if needed."--Cryptologia.

The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly sheds light on the inimitable life of a neglected figure in US political and literary history. The father of American Populism, lieutenant governor of Minnesota, People's Party candidate for vice president, popularizer of the Shakespeare authorship controversy, proponent of the Atlantis theory, and author of bestselling speculative fictions, Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901) positively defies categorization. Called a crank and a pseudoscientist by some and a genius by others, Donnelly broke all the rules. When skeptics said he was too green for politics, he got elected Minnesota's youngest-ever lieutenant governor. When they said a politician who prized his Irish heritage could never ascend to national office in a state dominated by conservative Scandinavians, he proved his critics wrong again. As Zachary Michael Jack' shows, in the latter half of Donnelly's remarkable life, he generated more fame and infamy than he had as a combative congressman. In an uncanny reversal of the usual midcareer doldrums, Donnelly turned political defeat into an opportunity for personal and professional reinvention, remaking himself as a visionary author and a champion of people-first third-party politics. The man known by enemies and friends alike as the Sage of Nininger pushed through poverty and ignominious defeat to introduce the masses to surprising theories about ancient civilizations, world-ending comets, and cryptograms purported to reveal the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays. At root, The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly reveals the story of a man unafraid to speak truth to power, consequences be damned.

The authors address theories, which, through the identification of hidden codes, call the authorship of Shakespeare's plays into question.

Now you can exercise your mental muscles and your funny bone! More than 400 puzzles give you a brain-burning crash course in cryptography, while the solutions reward you with great lines by such comedy stars as Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Joan Rivers, and Groucho Marx, as well as the wit of George Bernard Shaw, Mae West, and Dr. Ruth. Try to decipher the message through trial and error, or use the hints in the back. Funnier Cryptograms is sure to have you cracking codes and smiles at the same time.