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About

Play Cryptogram is a quotation puzzle you can play in your browser. It is free and you do not need an account. There is a new daily puzzle at each of three difficulties, and a practice mode for when one a day is not enough.

Where the quotations come from

The collection has 404 quotations, drawn from the King James Bible, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Marcus Aurelius, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, along with traditional proverbs. The dated ones run from 1603 to 1914. Each entry is stored with its author, its source and a link to a copy of the text online, at Wikisource, Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive.

How puzzles are made

A quotation's difficulty is set by its number of letters. Your browser then builds the code from a seed. For a daily puzzle the seed comes from the date and difficulty, which is why everyone gets the same puzzle, and the quotations follow a fixed shuffled order so none repeats until that difficulty's whole list has been used. Practice puzzles use a random seed.

Your progress

Your puzzles, times and streak are stored in your own browser. There is no leaderboard and no profile. The privacy page has the details.

Play Cryptogram is a Cain Brands site.