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Cipherline
Work out the swap and read the saying back, as quickly as you can.
0 of 14 coded letters filled inClock0:00
3 of 17 coded letters placed. Nothing here says right or wrong.
Tap a slot and type. Your letter fills in everywhere.
The line so far: blank blank eblank e iblank blank ablank blank a blank blank iblank blank eblank blank eeblank blank blank blank ablank blank blank iblank
Type a letter, or tap one here. It goes on s, and on the other 1 in the line.
Cipherline
Work out the swap and read the saying back, as quickly as you can.
- Pick a coded letter, then say which real letter it stands for.It fills in everywhere that coded letter appears, which is what makes the next word readable.
- Start with the short words and the three letters you were given.A one-letter word is A or I. A three-letter word with the commonest letter at the end is very often THE.
- Change your mind whenever the line stops making sense.This is the one people get wrong. Nothing here tells you a letter is right, on purpose, because a game that did would just be guessing with a tick next to it. Say a letter, read what it does to the other words, and take it back if it made nonsense. Taking it back costs nothing.
Scored on time.
What the words mean
- The line:
- the short saying you are trying to read. It is an old proverb or a plain sentence of ours, never a quotation from anybody
- Coded letter:
- a letter as it appears in the line. Each one stands for one real letter, the same one everywhere
- The swap:
- which real letter each coded letter stands for. It is the same swap all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself
- Given:
- the 3 letters filled in for you at the start, so there is somewhere to begin