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Decipherly's Modes screen listing Cryptograms, Word Ladder and Word Search — Three kinds of puzzle, each with a daily.

A cryptogram of an Ernest Hemingway quote, partly solved to read THE _ORLD _REA_S E_ER_ONE, AND, with the Decoder Ring sheet open below it, listing each cipher letter and the letter guessed for it — The Decoder Ring lists every letter you've worked out.

A Word Ladder from WORK to PLAY with a par of 6, three steps in at PORK, PERK and PEAK, with the field for the next word above the keyboard — Change one letter at a time to reach the target word.

An 11 by 11 Makers of History word search with five of its ten words found and crossed off the list, and a hint lighting the first letter of BOIS — A hint lights the first letter of a word you haven't found.

The Solved sheet over a finished ladder from FROM to PLAY, showing 4 steps, a par of 4 and no hints, marked Beat par, with Next Puzzle and Done buttons — Every mode ends on the same short summary.

The Stats screen with a one-day streak on a seven-day strip and the Cryptogram tab open: one puzzle solved, a best time of 2:41, no hints, and 1 of 834 quotes solved — A streak across all three modes, and stats for each.

Features

Cryptograms: decode one of 834 quotes, each in a letter-substitution cipher
A Decoder Ring, a letter-frequency chart, and a letter picker that shows how common each letter is in English
Word Ladder: 110 four-letter ladders in Daily, Easy and Medium packs, each with a par
Word Search: four themed word lists plus Mixed, in Easy, Medium and Hard grids, or a custom grid
A daily puzzle in every mode, the same for everyone, worked out from the date with no server
Hints, undo and start over in every mode
A hard mode for cryptograms that doesn't mark wrong letters in red
Stats for each mode, and a streak across all three
iPhone and iPad, with VoiceOver labels and support for larger text
No account, no ads, no tracking: everything stays on your device

Decipherly is a word puzzle app for iPhone and iPad with three kinds of puzzle: cryptograms, word ladders and word searches. Each mode has a daily puzzle, and everyone playing on the same day gets the same one. There are also packs and themes to play at any time. Decipherly is currently in TestFlight beta.

How it plays

Cryptograms. Each puzzle is a quote in which every letter has been swapped for another. Tap a letter and pick what you think it stands for, and your guess fills in everywhere that letter appears. A wrong guess shows in red unless hard mode is on. Three tools help: a chart of the letters that appear most often in the puzzle, a letter picker that shows how common each letter is in English, and the Decoder Ring, which lists every substitution you’ve made so far. A hint fills in one letter.

Word Ladder. Get from the start word to the target by changing one letter at a time, and every step must be a real word. Each ladder’s par is the fewest steps it can be done in. A hint shows one letter of the next word on a shortest ladder.

Word Search. Find the listed words in a grid of letters by dragging across them, or by tapping a word’s first and last letters. Easy grids are 8×8 with six words across and down. Medium grids are 11×11 with ten words, diagonals included. Hard grids are 15×15 with eighteen words in every direction, backwards too. A custom grid lets you choose the theme, the size, the directions, the number of words, and whether the word list is hidden. A hint lights the first letter of a word you haven’t found.

Dailies and stats. You can replay a daily, but it’s recorded once. The Stats tab counts a streak of days on which you solved anything, and shows each mode’s own streak, times, hints, and how far through its puzzles you are. After 20 solves in a mode, it compares your last ten with the ten before.