Chapter 3. Solving Stories

In This Chapter

Diving into an American Revolutionary War conspiracy
Following a Civil War–era conspiracy
Uncovering a modern-day conspiracy

This book contains a wealth of ciphers for you to crack. Some of them are quotations or apt sayings. But most of our messages offer you something more — not just one conspiracy story, but three!

We tried to write the full stories for you in this chapter, but the government censor discovered the letters and documents, and now large sections of each story are missing and encrypted. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to decipher the missing portions from each story and unearth the real story of what happened!

To solve these conspiracy stories, simply find the puzzle number next to each gap, and solve that cipher in Part II to fill in the gap!

Note

If you don't want to follow the stories in this chapter, that's perfectly fine too. You can solve all the ciphers in this book just for the fun of it, without putting them into the story.