About Cipher Quote

There is a person behind Cipher Quote. It's Canadian Janice Witham, creator of Janric Classic Sudoku. Having developed her own method of compiling Sudoku puzzles, Janice considers puzzle compiling a craft rather than a job, and is now the creator of a collection of innovative puzzles, including International Wordfind, Cipher Quote and Key Letter Puzzler, in addition to her Classic Sudoku.

Witham began her career as a copywriter for radio stations. Her love of writing led her to begin writing articles for magazines, including a series of travel pieces while journeying across Australia.

Upon her return to Canada after the yearlong working holiday in Australia -- where she met her future husband -- Witham continued to write on a freelance basis and also began compiling Wordfind puzzles.

"I found the challenge of compiling puzzles much more interesting than solving them, even though the first few took hours to get right!" she says. Today, she has compiled more than 1,000 Wordfinds. When she first saw a Sudoku puzzle, Witham says, "This puzzle intrigued me -- a number puzzle that required logic rather than mathematical skill."

Witham has established a long-term relationship with Auspac Media in Australia. To date, Janice's word puzzles have appeared in newspapers across Australia, and international publications spanning the globe from Dubai to London, from North America to South Africa. Cipher Quote is a code-cracking puzzle that challenges the solver to decipher a variety of everyday symbols in order to discover the quotation.

In February 2005, Witham's book, "Black Box: David Warren and the Creation of the Cockpit Voice Recorder," was published in Australia and officially launched at the Melbourne International Air Show. "Black Box" is the dramatic true story of the Melbourne scientist who conceived and developed one of aviation's most important safety devices. 

After 20 years living in Australia, Witham has returned to Canada with her husband, Ric, and their two daughters. In her spare time, Witham loves to relax with family and friends, take long walks with her iPod, play piano, practice yoga and travel.