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Cryptle #12 · Fri 11 Sep 2026

This one is from the archive. Play it for practice — past puzzles never count toward a streak. Today’s cipher is here.

3 guesses to crack the cipher. One cipher each day.

How to play Cryptle

The block on the page is an ordinary English sentence with a cipher laid over it. Every letter is still in there. Your job is to read it.

  • We tell you which cipher it is Today it’s Flag Semaphore. The work is the decoding, not guessing what you’re looking at.
  • Type the decoded message Capitals, spaces and punctuation are all ignored — the third stone and THETHIRDSTONE both count.
  • 3 guesses, then the day is done A wrong guess tells you whether your answer is even the right length, and which part of your method to doubt.
  • Solve it and your streak grows Miss a day, or run out of guesses, and it goes back to zero. That’s the whole prize — there’s nothing to win but the run itself.
  • A new one lands at midnight Past days stay playable in the archive, but practice never counts toward a streak.

Never solved one before? The guides walk through every cipher we use, one at a time.

Flag Semaphore

No key given

Need a nudge?

Two flags, held at eight possible angles. The pair of angles is the letter.

Learn the method: how to solve flag semaphore

The answer

CODE SALTFLAT

That’s a real code. Use SALTFLAT at checkout on this month’s hunt.

How it works

Each letter has become a mark. Nothing is scrambled and nothing is shifted: find the key to the symbols and you can read it straight off. This one is Flag Semaphore. Two flags, held at eight possible angles. The pair of angles is the letter. Match the first three marks against the key and they resolve to C O D. The answer was CODE SALTFLAT.

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