Well, ladies, gentlemen, and kiddies. Before we begin our first 'actual' lesson, I want to kind of introduce you to the format I'm going to use. Here in a second, I will be giving an example cryptogram, but first I want to discuss it with you. If you want to write it down and solve the practice puzzles as you read through the text, you're more than welcome to. However, once we uncover possible solutions, I will add them above the original problem as we go along. So, if our puzzle was
F RFPA FMA MDACQ (I like ice cream)
our ongoing solving will look like this, keeping in mind that in our actual lessons, I won't give the answer right next to the problem:
*text:
*equivilants:
Then, I'll take the puzzle and translate:
| I | I | I | |||||||||||||
| F | R | F | P | A | F | M | A | M | D | A | Z | Q |
Then, I'll go along with the lesson using the same format.
Another thing to keep in mind, is that in my tutuorial, and also if you decide to purchase puzzle books from the local store, any given letter will not stand for itself. For instance, if you have a letter "a" standing by itself, (as in a ofrd; the first two words in a variation of the I like ice cream example), then it will always be an "i", since a letter will not stand for itself and because there are only two letters that make up a word in themselves ("a" and "i").