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Codex Mythologica: The Puzzle Book

Ten more puzzles, every hint from the book, the filled grids, and a checker that will tell you whether you have an answer right.

The book is not on sale yet. Everything on this page is free and works on its own — the ten puzzles here are not in the book, so you can do them without owning it.

Puzzles, hints and answers

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  • Ten more puzzles — not in the book

    PDF · US Letter · 12 pages

    Four ciphers, three deductions, a word fit, a word search and a picture, numbered 101 to 110 so you can tell them from the hundred in the book. Answers at the back. Each one was solved by a program that saw only the printed page and had to reach exactly one answer, which is the same gate the book's hundred went through.

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  • Every hint, in three passes

    PDF · US Letter · 13 pages

    All three hundred and thirty hints — the hundred puzzles in the book and the ten here — printed the way the book prints them: every first hint, then every second, then every third. Looking up the first hint for puzzle sixty-one does not put the third one in front of you.

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  • The filled grids

    PDF · US Letter · 6 pages

    Eleven word fits and nine pictures, solved. These are the answers a sentence cannot carry, and printing them is the only honest way to give them.

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About this material

Everything here is Valice Press's own work. The puzzles are generated from the editorial apparatus of CODEX MYTHOLOGICA and CODEX BESTIARIUM — which civilization a myth is filed under, which class a creature is in — both of which this press wrote and publishes. The mythological facts themselves belong to the traditions they come from and are not claimed by anybody. Where a sentence is quoted it is quoted whole and attributed to the story it came from.

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