This booklet helps you break the code, revealing the secret messages hidden in the world's longest acrostic, which is concealed in printed editions of The Memoirs of Billy Shears. If you have that book, or Billy's Back!, Beatles Enlightenment, or The Talent Contest, this booklet is your key to successfully breaking that code.

Just as “Billy” packed his lyrics, art, and movies with hidden clues, he enriched his memoirs with embedded messages throughout—or his Encoder did. Practically everything in The Memoirs of Billy Shears (and thus in Billy’s Back! and in Beatles Enlightenment) is encoded. Of all the encoding, you will probably most enjoy decoding the acrostics. The first acrostic appears with “The Hand” on the copyright page. The last acrostics (not included in this booklet) are on page 674. In between, running 612 pages (from page 5 to 617), is the world’s longest acrostic to date.

Every other line is acrostical. After reading each chapter of a printed edition, try decoding the acrostic. Just as many people use answer keys when solving Sudoku or crossword puzzles, those playing the challenging game of decoding these acrostics have been very glad to receive this 20 page (in printed editions) answer key.