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3 unusual facts about Decipher


Bastian Winkelhaus

He was one of the three SWCCG players elected to the Decipher, Inc. Hall of Fame in 2002.

Decipher, Inc.

It was released in February 2009, and is themed on combat between (typically macho) characters from several film licences, such as Rambo, Mr. Blonde, and Chuck Norris.

Seeing the opportunity in this market, game designers Tom Braunlich and Rollie Tesh (both former Pente world champions) conceptualized a media license-based CCG, and in November 1993 approached Decipher with the idea.


A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents

Many researchers use such tools, including this guide, to help decipher records found in genealogical resources, such as the LDS Church's Family History Library.

Armand Phillip Bartos

About the structure—cited as the best of 1965 by the American Institute of Architects (AIA)—Bartos offered: "The scrolls are not visual as a Rembrandt is visual. Only scholars can actually decipher them. It was up to us Kiesler and me to say something about them. Thus we built up an air of mystery" (Time magazine, April 30, 1965).

FARC files

The Colombian Administrative Department of Security (DAS) reported that it had asked for Interpol's technical support in order to decipher the seized FARC computers.

George Scovell

By December 1812, when a letter from Joseph Bonaparte to Napoleon was intercepted, Scovell could decipher enough of it to read Joseph's explicit account of French operations and plans.

George Vasilakos

In the past, George has been the art direct and graphic designer for Last Unicorn Games, Wizards of the Coast and Decipher, working on the Star Trek and Lord of the Rings RPGs.

Gisbert Hasenjaeger

Invalided out of the service, he served as assistant to Heinrich Scholz, starting in October 1942, out in Section IVa of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung at Karlstejn, responsible for the security of the Enigma machine, which used by the British to decipher vulnerabilities of the service but escaped

Hall of Records

Stel Pavlou places the Hall of Records under the Sphinx in the Atlantis adventure novel Decipher, 2001.

John Tiltman

In 1951 Tiltman met William Friedman, one of the leading scholars involved in the attempt to decipher the mysterious Voynich manuscript.

Letter frequency

One of the earliest description in classical literature of applying the knowledge of English letter frequency to solving a cryptogram is found in E.A. Poe's famous story The Gold-Bug, where the method is successfully applied to decipher a message instructing on the whereabouts of a treasure hidden by Captain Kidd.

Star Trek: Titan

In Decipher, Inc.'s Star Trek Customizable Card Game, Titan is identified as a Prometheus-class starship.

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game (a.k.a. LOTR TCG) is a collectible card game produced by Decipher, Inc. Released November 2001, it is based on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and the J. R. R. Tolkien novel on which the films were based.

The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony

The story and artwork within 'Pentateuch' concerns the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter, and the project to decipher the ideograms in the pentateuch 'document' discovered within.


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