Yesterday , I perused differet puzzle books on a shelf in a bookstore. One book had mazes for adults, a book on deciphering cryptic verses, another book on lateral thinking (word problems), and a book on visual illusions....I feel if you had some experience or skill on working puzzles with these kinds of books....

you probably have a good chance of working out the problems in the maranatha puzzle book ....

Its easy and time consuming translating those cryptic symbols into words...the trick is understanding the word problem associated with the illustrated image on the next page....