Bletchley Park Codebreaking Puzzles
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This collection of 140 intriguing and challenging codebreaking puzzles are produced in association with the Bletchley Park Trust. Follow in the footsteps of World War II codebreakers and decode the encrypted messages within.
These puzzles include:
• Anagrams
• Logical reasoning
• Encryption word problems
• Logic grids
•And more!
ABOUT THE SERIES: This series of fun and stylish puzzle books are produced in association with the Bletchley Park Trust, a vibrant and fascinating heritage site celebrating the World War II codebreakers who were stationed there.
Arcturus Publishing
Arcturus Publishing offers a vast and varied range of puzzles, from novelty and specialist content, to popular titles such as crosswords, sudoku, and wordsearch. All of Arcturus Publishing's puzzle titles are of a high quality and in varying degrees of difficulty, with no trick questions. Full solutions are included at the back of each book.
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Bletchley Park Codebreaking Puzzles - Arcturus Publishing
Contents
Introduction
Puzzles
Solutions
Introduction
During World War Two, Bletchley Park was a workplace to thousands of people whose job it was to read the encrypted messages of its enemies. Towards the end of 1941, a crossword puzzle competition was organised by the Daily Telegraph. The challenge was to complete the puzzle in under 12 minutes. A Mr Gavin, Chairman of the Eccentrics Club, offered to donate £100 to the Minesweepers Fund, if it could be done under controlled conditions. As a number of the competitors were subsequently invited to take part in intelligence work at Bletchley Park, puzzles and codebreaking have been linked in the public mind ever since the exploits of Bletchley Park’s Codebreakers became public knowledge.
Codebreaking is very much a puzzle-solving process and the codes and ciphers used are similar to the most common types of puzzles such as crosswords, wordsearches and sudoku. In many cases, the Codebreakers of Bletchley Park were looking for patterns in the problem before them, much like puzzle solvers today. Both often also base their solutions on clues. For example, a simple code might represent words by something else such as strings of numbers. In this case, the clue may lie in the frequency of certain strings of numbers occurring in the encrypted message. Straight or quick crossword clues are simple definitions of the answers, so the clue lies in the definition provided. A more difficult cipher might replace each letter in a message with another letter of the alphabet twice, a so-called double-encryption. This is a bit like cryptic crosswords in which the clues are puzzles in themselves.
Encrypted World War Two enemy messages were usually transmitted in groups of letters, typically 4 or 5 in length. So when the letters were decrypted, they would still be in these letter groups but some letters might be missing. The Codebreakers would then have to piece the actual words of the message together. This is a bit like a ‘fill-in-the-blank’ clue in crosswords or wordsearch puzzles.
So you see, puzzle solving is synonymous with the profound intellectual feat and remarkable brains of those whose work at Bletchley Park is said to have helped shorten World War Two by up to two years. Following in this long-held tradition, the Bletchley Park Trust has today produced this series of puzzle books so that you can follow in the footsteps of the Codebreakers and perhaps establish whether you have the puzzle-solving skills needed to have worked at wartime Bletchley Park…
Puzzles
1. The Spies and the Ministers
Six guests have arrived at Bletchley Park, and it is your job to escort them from reception to a holding room.
Due to security protocols, you are only able to escort a maximum of two guests at any one time. This means that you will have to make multiple journeys from reception to the briefing room.
The six guests consist of three spies and three ministers. It is an additional security requirement, however, that if there are both spies and ministers in a room that there can never be more spies than there are ministers. This applies to both the reception and the briefing room. For example if the briefing room already contains two ministers and one spy then you cannot escort two spies to the room, even if one were to then leave again with you, because there would (however briefly) be more spies than ministers in the room.
To make things more difficult, you are also required by social protocols to always have one guest with you at all times, even