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The GCHQ Puzzle Book
Gchq
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Description for The GCHQ Puzzle Book
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: WDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 234 x 32. Weight in Grams: 564.
Would GCHQ recruit you? Pit your wits against the people who cracked Enigma in the official puzzle book from Britain's secretive intelligence organisation . . . -------------------------------- Odd word out The themes in the following words are identical, but totally different! Which is the odd word out in each case? a) ANGLE, BRING, CLAMP, DIRTY, EXACT, FIELD, GRASS, HEART, IMAGE, JAUNT b) ABBEY, BURST, COURT, DRINK, ENJOY, FOUND, GIANT, HARMS, IDIOT, JUMPY Identify Me My first is in a combine harvester, but not in a ploughshare. My second is in a pigsty, but not in a cowshed. My third does not exist. My whole is in a farmyard, but not in a jungle. Identify me. -------------------------------- GCHQ is a top-secret intelligence and security agency which recruits some of the very brightest minds. Over the years, their codebreakers have helped keep our country safe, from the Bletchley Park breakthroughs of WWII to the modern-day threat of cyberattack. So it comes as no surprise that, even in their time off, the staff at GCHQ love a good puzzle. Whether they're recruiting new staff or challenging each other to the toughest Christmas quizzes and treasure hunts imaginable, puzzles are at the heart of what GCHQ does. Now they're opening up their archives of decades' worth of codes, puzzles and challenges for everyone to try. In this book you will find: - Tips on how to get into the mindset of a codebreaker - Puzzles ranging in difficulty from easy to brain-bending - A competition section where we search for Britain's smartest puzzler Good luck! 'Fiendish . . . as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling: the true spirit of Christmas' The Guardian 'Ideal for the crossword enthusiast' Daily Telegraph Looking for more ways to test yourself? The GCHQ Puzzle Book 2, a new collection of head-scratching, mind-boggling and brain-bending puzzles is out now!
Product Details
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718185541
SKU
V9780718185541
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-40
About Gchq
GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is a signals intelligence and cyber security organisation whose mission is to keep Britain safe from terror attacks and cybercrime.
Reviews for The GCHQ Puzzle Book
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THE GUARDIAN
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
Ideal for the crossword enthusiast
Daily Telegraph
Surely the trickiest puzzle book in years. Crack these fiendish problems and Trivial Pursuit should be a doddle
Daily Telegraph
A fiendish work, as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling: the true spirit of Christmas
Guardian
THE GUARDIAN
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
Ideal for the crossword enthusiast
Daily Telegraph
Surely the trickiest puzzle book in years. Crack these fiendish problems and Trivial Pursuit should be a doddle
Daily Telegraph
A fiendish work, as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling: the true spirit of Christmas
Guardian