Large Print Cryptograms - by Trip Payne & Shawn Kennedy (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Endorsed by the National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH), this compendium of more than 700 cryptograms is accessible to puzzlers who love to flex their mental muscles and challenge their code-cracking abilities. Decode funny quips and clever comments by favorite celebrities and historical figures. Find out what Julia Roberts has to say about nude scenes; how Harry Truman distinguished between recession and depression; and get some marital advice from Shirley Maclaine. By untangling these mixed-up messages, you'll uncover the wise, witty, and wonderful things said by a wide array of personalities, including Albert Einstein, Johnny Carson, Henri Matisse, and Marilyn Monroe.

About the Author

Trip Payne is senior editor of the Zynga app Crosswords With Friends; his puzzles have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Games, Out, and others. He was profiled in the crossword documentary Wordplay, appeared as a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and was the Word Expert on the CBS game show Million Dollar Password. His many puzzle books for Puzzlewright and Puzzlewright Jr. include Sit & Solve Crosswords, Sit & Solve Fun & Easy Cryptograms, and Pop Culture Word Search Puzzles, among others. Trip lives in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

For three summers, Shawn Kennedy helped Will Shortz edit the New York Times crossword puzzle. Kennedy has written for eight TV game shows, and he writes spatial logic puzzles for the annual U.S. Puzzle Championship.