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Cryptle #66 · Sat 7 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 ADFGVX, and the key is square SILVER · columns MAP. 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.

ADFGVX

square SILVER · columns MAP

FAFAA GXGAF VAXFF ADAAD GAGXD AAVDA AGAXG AAADV FVAVA GAVAV AVFVF VAFFG

Need a nudge?

Two keys, two steps. The 6×6 square starts with SILVER and runs on through the alphabet and 0–9; each letter became its row and column label. Then the whole stream was written under MAP and read out column by column in alphabetical order.

Learn the method: how to solve adfgvx

The answer

THE TREASURE WAS NEVER ON THE ISLAND

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 ADFGVX. The key: square SILVER · columns MAP. Two keys, two steps. The 6×6 square starts with SILVER and runs on through the alphabet and 0–9; each letter became its row and column label. Then the whole stream was written under MAP and read out column by column in alphabetical order. Look the first pieces up in the square and they come out T H E. The answer was THE TREASURE WAS NEVER ON THE ISLAND.

Next time, check your work with the ADFGVX Cipher.

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