CryptoQuote is a word puzzle game that offers a challenge to the player.
Here are some key features of CryptoQuote:
- When selecting a single letter, all other corresponding letters highlight for quick reference.
- Users can solve puzzles by dragging and dropping solution letters. Hovering over a scrambled letter highlights all the corresponding letters to select from.
- Colors are used to aid with solving puzzles. Green letters supply hints that CryptoQuote fill in themselves, blue letters indicate standard guesses, and red letters show the same solution letter used in another location.
- In situations where a picture is displayed on the left-hand side, the sidebar shows matching solution and scrambled letters for the "blue" letter O. This makes it easier to track which solution letters have already been used.
- Struggling? Get a hint. Hints provide users with a single letter solution. Players may choose to get a hint at the start, as is usually common with newspaper puzzles.
- Once everything has been correctly answered, users get a nicely formatted version of the solution, with CryptoQuote providing positive feedback.
- The word search enables users to query for pattern-matching words. By inputting known letters and pattern-matching numbers, individuals can find different solutions.
- The letter frequency tool provides another means to analyze puzzles. Users can compare the frequency of letters in the puzzle with the typical frequencies found in the English language.
- The Game menu has several options, such as resetting any puzzle work completed, inputting a puzzle from an external source, inputting a particular quote to create a personal puzzle, or participating in the CryptoQuote.com puzzle of the day.
- Under the Tools menu, users can find helpful hints, give up, or access the word search and letter frequency tools.
- Preferences allow users to customize the standard colors and alter the behavior of CryptoQuote when solving puzzles.
The only requirement is minimal hard drive space. The demo version includes only 75 puzzles.
Version 1.5: N/A