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Puzzle answers

Puzzle Page 1

This is a Caesar Shift of 9

The deciphered message:

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it is human. - Alan Turing

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Puzzle Page 2

Book code solution:

Spies must know how to communicate a secret message

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Did you notice that some of the letters on this page are bold? This is a method of secret communication that has been used for centuries. To read the hidden message, simply find the bold letters and read only those letters. They spell out:

Where is Willa? (a key question in the plot of The Bletchley Riddle)

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And one more thing: Did you notice the pictures in the advertisements? Can you identify the people in the ads?

(Here’s a hint: do a bit of research on the authors of The Bletchley Riddle.)

Turing50.2.jpg

Alan Turing on a British 50 pound note. A brilliant mathematician, Turing was one of the most important code-breakers at Bletchley Park. He saw FAR into the future, imagining machines that could think - and even trick us into believing they were human. 

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