Puzzles can be divided very
clearly into one of two categories. There are those you can solve -
which can be great fun and fill a few moments with amusement, and
those you can’t solve - which
are stupid and you didn’t want to solve
them anyway.
As with all of this series the
cache is not hidden at the above co-ordinates which are for
Appuldurcombe House, the home of Sir Robert Worsley, the 3rd
Baronet.
As I have been setting these
little puzzles I have read quite a bit about codes and the
personalities who created and solved the various ciphers. One such
unsung hero was Polish mathematician and cryptologist Marian Adam
Rejewski who as early as 1932 solved the secret of the Enigma
machine in use by the Germans.
This success by Rejewski and his
fellow Poles Jerzy Rózycki and Henryk Zygalski gave the British
efforts to break the Enigma codes in World War II a huge leap
forward. The intelligence, code-named Ultra, played a massive part
in the ultimate defeat of Nazi Germany. It is ironic that after
playing such a crucial part in the cracking of the Enigma codes the
three Poles were not allowed to play any part in the work being
carried out at Bletchley Park, the Ultra secret was to be strictly
for British and American eyes only.
Many years after the war, the
work of Rejewski and his two colleagues was finally recognised with
the unveiling, in 2007, of a three sided bronze monument at Poznan
Castle. Each side of the monument bears the name of on of the three
cryptographers.
Rejewski died at his home on 13
February 1980 at the age of 74.
