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Re: Holiday puzzles...

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups sci.crypt
Subject Re: Holiday puzzles...
Date 2023-01-05 11:36 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87ilhlkyb4.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <to4g84$1oet5$1@dont-email.me> <871qoqroxl.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <toh8eo$3uov0$1@dont-email.me> <87sfgzjucs.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <tp68av$2pt02$1@dont-email.me>

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Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> writes:

The trick to good crypto-puzzles is to give them have enough threads to
pull on that there is always something interesting to pursue without
there being so many possibilities that it seems totally arbitrary.  A
text with no patterns is boring, but one with too many is almost as bad.
I don't think I got this right.  Anyway, I hope there was some
entertainment in it.

Full spoiler below...

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-- 
Ben.

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Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-22 02:25 +0000
  Re: Holiday puzzles... Colin <a@b.com> - 2022-12-22 19:33 +1300
    Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-12-22 08:21 +0000
      Re: Holiday puzzles... Colin <a@b.com> - 2022-12-23 20:47 +1300
        Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-12-23 08:11 +0000
    Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-22 12:53 +0000
      Re: Holiday puzzles... Colin <a@b.com> - 2022-12-23 07:13 +1300
  Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2022-12-22 12:53 +0000
    Re: Holiday puzzles... Colin <a@b.com> - 2022-12-23 22:18 +1300
      Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2022-12-23 15:07 +0000
        Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-23 17:48 +0000
          Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2022-12-28 11:14 +0000
            Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-12-28 17:44 +0000
              Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 10:21 +0000
                Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-05 11:36 +0000
                Re: Holiday puzzles... Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 13:27 +0000
                Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-05 18:06 +0000
                Re: Holiday puzzles... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-05 11:38 +0000

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