[casual_games] Puzzle Book

[Natalia Prokhorovich]

Hello, Elonka.

As a member of IGDA - have read your invitation to take part in "Puzzle Book"
composition.

I enjoy solving puzzles and if you need any help in "testing",
especially in simple ciphers - please let me know, I will be happy to
help.

By the way: one of you picture at http://www.elonka.com (October
2003) is with Cyrillic alphabet - it is close to me, my native
language is Russian :)

-- 
Best regards,
Natalia Prokhorovich
Alawar Entertainment
www.alawar.com 

mailto:natalia at alawar.com


You wrote Thursday, November 24, 2005, 1:06:43:

Eac> Hi all.  :)

Eac> My name is Elonka Dunin, and I'm one of the senior members on the IGDA Online 
Eac> Games SIG Committee.

Eac> I have a side hobby of cryptography, and was recently contacted by a British 
Eac> book publisher, who wants me to put together a book of codes and ciphers for 
Eac> release in the U.S. and U.K.  This is not so much a book *about* codes, as a 
Eac> book *full* of codes to solve, ranging from easy to hard.  It will also have a 
Eac> few pages on "solving tips", and of course a description of some of the famous 
Eac> Unsolved Codes in the world, such as the text on the Kryptos sculpture.

Eac> Unsolved codes aside though, I'd especially like the book to have several 
Eac> hundred very simple ciphers to solve.  Like Presidential (and Prime Minister!) 
Eac> quotes that have been encrypted using a simple substitution cipher.

Eac> While chatting with someone on the Casual Games SIG committee, it was brought 
Eac> up that I might want to send out an open invitation to the Casual Games 
Eac> community, to see if anyone would be interested in helping with the project. I 
Eac> could use assistance in everything from coming up with the plaintext quotes and 
Eac> passages to encrypt, to encrypting those quotes, and of course testing things to 
Eac> make sure that everything's done correctly! Since so many of you already 
Eac> create and enjoy puzzles, we thought you might enjoy contributing to this project, 
Eac> even though it's not computer-related!

Eac> Credit would of course be given in the book to everyone that helps, so it'd 
Eac> also be a fun way to see your name in print!

Eac> The timeline on this is fairly short, as I'm going to be submitting the 
Eac> finished manuscript next month.  If anyone from the Casual Games community is 
Eac> interested in helping though, either creating ciphers or helping to test them, 
Eac> please contact me, at elonka at aol.com.

Eac> Thanks!

Eac> Elonka  :)

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Eac> Elonka Dunin
Eac> http://www.elonka.com/bio.html