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Have a look around, you can find out about my puzzles and books, free online puzzles, and plenty of free knitting patterns. Enjoy!

Denise Sutherland

News

My Gourmet and Gardener crosswords appear regularly in Readers Digest's Mind Stretchers series (Aus/NZ editions). Their January 2010 (Aus/NZ) edition had a free holiday puzzle book, which contains three of my Gourmet crosswords, too.

Books

Cracking Codes & Cryptograms For Dummies

Cracking Codes and Cryptograms for Dummies is out in bookshops in the USA and Canada (and a few Aussie ones like Dymocks).

Co-authored with Mark Koltko-Rivera, this book contains over 350 cryptograms and ciphers, three conspiracy stories to uncover, and a wealth of information on Freemasonry, codes in history, and how to crack ciphers. It's a lot of fun!

The Cheat Sheet is available on Wiley's web site, along with a bonus set of 50 free cryptograms to print and solve.

You can find it on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, and Fishpond.com.au

Word Searches For Dummies

Find out more about Word Searches For Dummies, what's inside, and where you can get your own copy!
The Errata page corrects a few mistakes that affect a couple of puzzles.

Word Searches for Dummies can be found in American and Canadian bookstores, and bought online (Wiley, Amazon, Fishpond, Booktopia, Book Depository, etc).

The Canberra Puzzle Book

The Canberra Puzzle Book is perfect for your class trip to Canberra. There are free sample pages here, and an Order Form here. It is available as a B5 workbook and a blackline master.

This book has been popular with school groups visiting our national capital ever since it was first published in 2005. Make it part of your journey, too!