A Child's Garden of Cyphers

A Child’s Garden of Cyphers was a book written by Orrin Oscar Lutwidge using the alias “Orson Orville Liddell” and published by his company, Liddell and Lewis Publishers, in 1947.
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==There's Something in the Sea==
Mark Meltzer used this book to decipher the symbol code on several puzzle boxes which he found while searching for his kidnapped daughter, Cindy.
This symbol code, referred to as “Lutwidgian cipher” covers the outside of the Lunchbox Puzzle, and is used in unlocking the various levels of the Metal Box. It can also be seen on the cover of the book itself, where it forms a rectangular border around the title. This border, when decoded, reveals the message:
Starting from the top left reading to the right:
:“Yawn not darer and wander nary/ Be warned and ready/ Dawn’s ray nears/ Will my wand err nay”
Reading in the opposite direction down the left side:
:“Read now and be wary”
Notably, many word combinations in this message form an anagram of “Andrew Ryan”:
:Yawn + darer: Andrew Ryan
:Wander + nary: Andrew Ryan
:Wand + err + nay: Andrew Ryan
In November, Mark received Cindy's personal copy of A Child's Garden of Cyphers from his estranged wife, Amanda. This copy was much dirtier than Mark's, and it had Cindy's signature on the front, along with a short cypher warning: "KEEP OUT!!!"
This copy of the book could be opened to a page containing a cryptic word search puzzle. The symbol filled grid of this word search doubles as an ADFGVX cipher ADFGVX Cipher on Wikipedia for solving the fourth level of the Metal Box puzzle.
== The Cryptic Word Search ==
The word search contains cypher sybols that, when translated, read:
(Bold letters were circled in the book.)
X	E	R	D	N	A
W	G	O	B	L	R
R	Y	F	I	S	K
Y	P	C	D	U	H
A	E	W	Q	A	T
N	Z	M	J	V	N
The following text is on the adjacent page.
(Highlight the white blocks with your pointer to see the answers.)
Now test your knowledge of the cipher! Find the hidden words... and remember, on this grid sometimes Y = X! We've checked off the first few to get you started.	Now test your knowledge of the cipher! Find the hidden words... and remember, on this grid sometimes Y = X! We've checked off the first few to get you started.	Now test your knowledge of the cipher! Find the hidden words... and remember, on this grid sometimes Y = X! We've checked off the first few to get you started.	Now test your knowledge of the cipher! Find the hidden words... and remember, on this grid sometimes Y = X! We've checked off the first few to get you started.
✔ 	1. No if, this, or but! 	(3) 	AND
✔ 	2. Home for a Hungary Pest. 	(3) 	ERD
✔ 	3. Not me, but I. Not us, but --. 	(2) 	WE
✔ 	4. A ham's humor is often---. 	(3) 	WRY
✔ 	5. Yea? I say thee ---! 	(3) 	NAY
 	6. What Painvin cracked. 	(5) 	ADFGX
 	7. Dirigible, in a hurry. 	(3) 	ZEP
 	8. Swindler's Act. 	(3) 	GYP
 	9. Where the frog lays on a log. 	(3) 	BOG
 	10. 1872 Black Friday's scoundrel. 	(4) 	FISK
 	11. Thor's stunning sweetheart. 	(3) 	SIF
 	12. Auction term. 	(3) 	BID
 	13. Maybe hetero- or ortho-.* 	(4) 	DOXY
 	14. Arabian tea with no u. 	(3) 	QAT
 	15. Hull of a nut. 	(3) 	ARK
 	16. Hollow, to a Welshman. 	 	CWM
 	17. Mecca trek. 	 	HAJ
 	18. She fell underground. 	 	ALICE
 	19. Sr. Varsity's offspring. (abbr) 	 	JV
*Remember! On this grid, sometimes X=Y 	*Remember! On this grid, sometimes X=Y 	*Remember! On this grid, sometimes X=Y 	*Remember! On this grid, sometimes X=Y
== Cipher Images ==
File:Dial cypher alphabet.jpg|A decoder made from a dial on the Lunchbox Puzzle.
File:Front of the Lunchbox Puzzle.jpg|Cipher text on the front of the Lunchbox Puzzle.
File:Lunchbox inside message.jpg|A cipher message from inside the Lunchbox Puzzle.
File:Vault Puzzle L1.JPG|The cipher buttons on level one of the Metal Box Puzzle.
File:Vault puzzle L2.jpg|The front of the 4x4 grid of the Metal Box Puzzle.
File:Puzzle part 2.png|The 5x5 grid of the Metal Box Puzzle.
File:Translated 5x5 puzzle.jpg|Translated 5x5 (This image contains an inaccuracy.)
File:Sand city.jpg|Cipher letters in the sand in a photo taken by Mark Meltzer.
File:Tiles.jpg|Tiles with cipher letters from Lutwidge's basement workshop.
File:Tiles left.jpg|Bottom left tiles.
File:Tiles right.jpg|Bottom right tiles.
File:Tiles topright.jpg|Top right tiles.
File:Tiles decoder.jpg|All tiles combined and decoded.
File:Box4.png|Level Four of the Metal Box Puzzle.
File:Day174 item930 cindy.png|A message from Cindy.
== References ==
Category:There's Something in the Sea
Category:Pages with written transcripts