The GCHQ Puzzle Book
Perfect for anyone who likes a good headscratcher
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:5th Sep '24
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£16.99(9780718185541)
Test yourself with the official GCHQ Puzzle Book, the perfect gift for anyone who loves a good head-scratcher
'Fiendish . . . as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling' Guardian
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The secrets of the country depend on you.
Find out if you’ve got what it takes to be a code breaker?
GCHQ’s top-secret codebreakers have always protected the country – from Bletchley Park’s war-ending WWII breakthroughs to saving us all from life-destroying foreign cyberattacks.
But what kind of mind does it take to work there? And do you have the brain power, cunning and resourcefulness to pit your wits against them and win? Here, taken from their archives, are decades of codes, puzzles and challenges for everyone to try.
You’ll discover:
- Tips on how to get into the mind-set of a codebreaker
- Puzzles ranging in difficulty from easy to brain-bending
- Challenges that have never been solved
- Insight into the organisation's top secret history dating back to 1919
The security of the country is at stake.
What are you waiting for? Get cracking!
ENJOY THESE TWO TEASERS
What follows Vienna, Brussels, Prague, Copenhagen, Tallinn, Helsinki, Athens, ?
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If 1000110 is MINGLE and 1000110001100 is APE, what string of digits is POLITE?
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'Ideal for the crossword enthusiast' Daily Telegraph
A fiendish work, as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling: the true spirit of Christmas—Guardian
Surely the trickiest puzzle book in years. Crack these fiendish problems and Trivial Pursuit should be a doddle—Daily Telegraph
Ideal for the crossword enthusiast—Daily Telegraph
An explosion of a puzzle collection, too, with hundreds of questions and loads of peripheral material, including captioned photographs and history of twentieth-century British encryption, featuring the work of Alan Turing—The Times Literary Supplement
This isn't your grandfather's Sudoku book. Rather, it's a puzzle compendium put together by the organisation that made the Bletchley Park breakthroughs - quizzes, bewilderments and brainteasers to challenge even the sharpest of minds—The Gentleman's Journal
WINNER OF STOCKING FILLER OF THE YEAR AWARD—THE GUARDIAN
ISBN: 9781405970518
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 25mm
Weight: 323g
368 pages