CryptoGrammer is a little toy that helps make solving those
"CryptoGram" letter-substitution puzzles that you find in newspapers
and magazines easier. Type in your puzzle, or load one of our
pre-built puzzles. Then click on letters to type a substitution. The
all of those letters automatically change.
Using CryptoGrammer
Here is the CryptoGrammer playfield. The first letter V has
been selected. It's shown with a darker background. All the other
Vs have been drawn with a lighter background, so you can see
which letters you might change if you type a replacement.
Here we've typed an R. Now all the Vs will now be replaced
by Rs. Take a look over there in the Letter Frequencies column.
What was V(V) is now V(R). The first letter is the original
letter, and the letter in the parenthesis is the replacement letter. The
number next to them is how many times they appear in the given cryptogram.
The Letter Frequency is handy for some starting letters to try.
And here is the game nearing completion. The original phrase was
"Cryptograms are fun!"
Spiffy Features
You can save Cryptograms that are in-progress. Open one of the samples
for a pre-built cryptogram. You can enter your own too. Choose
Enter Cryptogram. This will show you a sheet where you can enter
your own cypher-text:
To make your own cryptograms, enter in a plain-text phrase, scramble the
letters, then copy the replacement letters into the cryptogram. Save it
and give it to your friends to solve!
If you have any questions or comments about Borkware CryptoGrammer,
please drop us a line at cryptogrammer-help@borkware.com.
Thank you for using Borkware CryptoGrammer.
