This week in the magazine, Jill Lepore considers some of the more fascinating aspects of Edgar Allan Poe’s character, like his penchant for puzzles. Here, she offers our readers a chance to take on ...

An archeologist found a silk dress from the 1800s with a hidden pocket concealing a secret code. A code breaker recently figured out the code was for telegraphed weather reports. Who owned the dress ...

The so-called 340 Cipher, sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, was finally cracked by an international team from the U.S., Belgium and Australia. Breaking News/Cheat Sheet Intern One of the Zodiac ...

BRATTLEBORO — Cryptograms and other coded messages are leading locals and visitors to hidden treasures. “I think these cryptograms were probably originally made by T.P. James,” said Rolf ...

A vintage dress purchased at an antique shop contained a hidden code that has baffled people for a decade. The code was broken by a data analyst at a Canadian university. The 1880s dress was in tune ...

In December 2013, a curator and archaeologist purchased an antique silk dress with an unusual feature: a hidden pocket that held two sheets of paper with mysterious coded text written on them. People ...

For the first time since the series of contests began in November 2008, the same individuals have won prizes for successfully figuring out the answers to two different “GEN Cryptogram Challenges.” ...

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), Scintellix, and Bio-Rad Laboratories are delighted to announce that the GEN Cryptogram Challenge: Cell Counting has been solved. Donna Marie Noga, a ...

“The Cryptogram,” which has been described as David Mamet’s most personal play, opens tomorrow at Fell’s Point Corner Theatre. A searing evocation of childhood and the impact of a marital breakup, ...

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR OLD THE MOVIE. M Night Shyamalan’s new thriller saw a group of unsuspecting holiday-makers trapped on a beach where they began to age rapidly. But it was only at the end of Old ...