iCryptograms · Cryptoquote Decoder
Paste a cryptoquote and watch it crack. Lock the letters you're sure of, clear the ones you aren't, and the rest re-solves around them.
Cipher → plain
Click any letter, then type its real letter to lock it (A–Z). Space locks or unlocks · ← → move · Backspace clears.
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Type in the encrypted quote and the solver decodes today's Cryptoquote instantly, in your browser. No sign-up, and no waiting for someone to publish the answer.
Enter the coded letters exactly as printed. Punctuation and word spacing help the engine — they reveal word boundaries, which is what the dictionary attack feeds on — but it will still make progress without them. You get back the plaintext and the full cipher key, so you can verify the solve instead of taking it on faith.
The daily Cryptoquote is syndicated and its solution is someone else's copyright. Rather than republish it, we hand you a tool that solves every Cryptoquote, on any day, from any paper. More on that reasoning on the cryptoquote answers page.
Cryptoquotes are quotations, which means they are grammatical, well-punctuated and full of common words — the friendliest possible target for manual solving. Start with the short words, count the letter frequencies, and read the field manual.
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