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Cryptle #62 · Tue 3 Nov 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 Keyed Polybius, and the key is keyword LANTERN. 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.

Keyed Polybius

keyword LANTERN

44 14 12 21 14 / 52 32 15 21 15 / 14 32 15 / 21 41 12 24 / 15 13 24 44

Need a nudge?

A Polybius square, but filled with LANTERN first and the rest of the alphabet after. Build the square, then read each pair as row, column.

Learn the method: how to solve keyed polybius

The answer

START WHERE THE ROAD ENDS

How it works

The alphabet sits in a square, and every letter is described by where it lives. Get the square right and the rest is bookkeeping. This one is Keyed Polybius. The key: keyword LANTERN. A Polybius square, but filled with LANTERN first and the rest of the alphabet after. Build the square, then read each pair as row, column. Look the first pieces up in the square and they come out S T A. The answer was START WHERE THE ROAD ENDS.

Next time, check your work with the Polybius Square.

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