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The Editions

Everything the Society has put into print. Buy on Etsy where you can leave a review that helps the next reader find us; paperbacks come from Amazon where noted. Every one is machine-proven solvable — the Puzzlexity Verified promise.

The Keyholders

the flagship cipher hunt

One great lock, twenty-four chained transmissions, and hidden layers beneath. Start here.

Vol I · The Application
Vol I · The Application

The aptitude test — solve the book and the final cipher becomes your acceptance.

Vol II · The Handbook
Vol II · The Handbook

Field training for the initiated: harder locks, deeper secrets.

Field Dispatches

standalone short hunts

One evening each, a fresh visual cipher every time — and they chain into a hidden meta.

I · The Tide-House
I · The Tide-House

A keeper's light on a drowned coast; a cipher held in the tides.

II · The Listening Post
II · The Listening Post

Wartime intercepts and a code buried in the static.

III · The Night Train
III · The Night Train

A sleeper car, a vanished passenger, a cipher on the rails.

IV · The Observatory
IV · The Observatory

Star-charts and a code written in the constellations.

Dispatches I–III · Bundle
Dispatches I–III · Bundle

The first three hunts together, at a keeper's discount.

Pocket Primers

learn one hand, deeply

Teaching micro-books — each drills a single concealment hand, with hidden puzzles baked in.

I · Pointer-Script
I · Pointer-Script

The comparator hand: a mark tells you which neighbour to take.

II · Coordinates
II · Coordinates

The grid-hand: an address points into a page's own words.

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