Decipher — free browser game
A Turkish proverb is hidden behind a monoalphabetic substitution cipher. Map the letters, crack the message.
Controls
Click a cipher letter · pick the guess from the Turkish alphabet pad · I: hint · R: new puzzle · Esc: clear selection
How to play
Tips and detailed strategy
Each round picks a fresh Turkish proverb and scrambles it with a random monoalphabetic substitution over the 29-letter Turkish alphabet (every plaintext letter maps to one fixed cipher letter); your job is to recover the original text. Each plaintext position is shown as a small cell with the cipher letter (e.g. M) at the bottom and your current guess (a dot when empty) on top. First click the cipher letter you want to attack — all of its occurrences are highlighted at once. Then pick the candidate letter from the Turkish alphabet pad at the bottom, and your guess is applied to every occurrence of that cipher letter. Assigning the same pad letter to a different cipher letter automatically clears the old mapping so you never have two cipher letters guessing the same plaintext. To erase a wrong guess, select the cell again and press Backspace, or tap the same pad letter twice. The 'Clear selection' button drops the current selected cell's guess. The Hint button reveals the correct mapping for a random cipher letter that is still wrong or empty, but each hint adds a 10-second penalty to your score. The round ends when the whole text matches the original; your final score is elapsed time plus hint penalties, and the lowest score is saved as your best. Strategy: start with the shortest words ('BİR', 'VAR' etc.), look for common Turkish suffixes (-DIR, -DİR, -NIN) at the end of words, try vowels (A, E, İ, O, U) on the most frequent cipher symbols, and use the word boundaries — they are not encrypted — to anchor short words first. Each puzzle is a 1-3 minute brain teaser.