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Cryptle #21 · Sun 20 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 Most days — but not today. This is a review day: the name is withheld, and working out which cipher it is comes first.
  • 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.

Review Day

The cipher’s name is withheld — working out which it is comes first

WHATDIEYADOTTDYOUG

Need a nudge?

One of this week's ciphers — working out which is part of the puzzle.

The answer

WHAT DID YOU GET TODAY

How it works

A review day — the cipher's name was withheld, so step one was working out which of the week's techniques was in play. Every letter of the answer is already in front of you — they are simply in the wrong order. Counting the letters is the first useful thing you can do. This one is Spiral Route. The key: 6 wide. Fill a grid 6 letters wide, then read it out in a spiral from the top-left corner inwards. Rebuild the grid, read it back in the original order, and the first letters come out W H A. The answer was WHAT DID YOU GET TODAY.

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