Cipher Storm
Encrypted words fall through the rain. Crack each wave's key and type the plaintext before they land. Free, on desktop or phone. Daily Storm #26 is live: the same storm for everyone today.
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Crack the code. Walk the maze.
Cipher puzzles you solve inside 3D mazes, right in your browser. Every answer opens a gate and is the key to the next one.
Free to start · nothing to download · works on your phone with one thumb · create a free account to keep your score
📡 Today's intercepts
Play →Three new cipher puzzles every day, the same for everyone. Free, no account needed, works on your phone.
What's new
All releases →15 new chains and 10 new mazes every month. So far in November: 7 chains and 4 mazes.
- 🧭 Maze · Elite New The Crimson Cascade Step into the Crimson Cascade and race the heat through corridors of falling red code. Three gates stand between you an… 3 gates · Play →
- 🔑 Chain · Elite New The Salt Telegraph A decommissioned coastal telegraph station where old operators left hidden messages in the machinery and the maps. 3 stages · Play →
- 🧭 Maze · Free New The Coral Vault Slip beneath the surface and drift through the coral halls of the Meridian Hall. Follow the currents, read what the kee… 3 gates · Play →
- 🔑 Chain · Elite New The Velvet Aquarium A shuttered city aquarium whose old control system still whispers messages through its tanks, pumps and lights. 3 stages · Play →
Walk the mazes
All 24 mazes →First-person 3D mazes. Find the terminals, crack each cipher to open its gate, and collect the data fragments for a hidden bonus message.
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Seasonal · Free
The Gathering
A corn maze at the end of harvest, in the last gold light. Follow the notes left for the late arrivals, colle…
4 gates
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Play free
New
The Coral Vault
Slip beneath the surface and drift through the coral halls of the Meridian Hall. Follow the currents, read wh…
3 gates
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Play free
The Construct
Three gates, three ciphers. Each answer opens a gate and is the key to the next terminal.
3 gates
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Play free
The Drowned Archive
A flooded hall under the sea. Follow the directions its keepers left, collect the pearls, and mind the curren…
4 gates
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Play free
Station Meridian
An empty space station, still running. Follow the last log through the ring, collect the data crystals, and t…
4 gates
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🔒 Elite
New
The Harvest Signal
Step into the corn at sunset and follow the lanterns past the scarecrows. Three gates wait, and the turkeys w…
3 gates
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🔒 Elite
New
The Basalt Crucible
Step into the volcano forge and follow the foreman's trail past lava channels and drifting embers. Four gates…
4 gates
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🔒 Elite
New
The Crimson Cascade
Step into the Crimson Cascade and race the heat through corridors of falling red code. Three gates stand betw…
3 gates
Break the chains
All puzzles →- Read the intercept. Each stage is a scrambled message and a short story clue.
- Pick your tools. Shift it, swap it, count the letters. The workbench is built in.
- Unlock the next stage. Your answer is the key to the one after it.
- 🔑 Chain · Free The Construct Gates The chain built for the 3D maze: three gates, three ciphers, and each answer is the key to the next door. 3 stages · Start →
- 🔑 Chain · Free The Operator's Relay A message hops across five relays. Every answer is the key to the next hop — solve them in order. 5 stages · Start →
- 🔑 Chain · Free Mirrorshades Steganography for beginners: a message hidden in the least significant bits of a photo, and a word that only one bit pl… 2 stages · Start →
New to ciphers? The five tutorials need no account and teach binary, Caesar shifts, sequences and logic grids. Elite adds 48 harder chains.
38 free cipher tools
All tools →Encoders, decoders and code-breaking helpers. No account, no limits. Know how one works? Try it against a real puzzle.
- Caesar CipherClassic shift cipher - encrypt/decrypt by shifting letters
- Substitution SolverAutomated substitution cipher breaking tool
- Frequency AnalysisAnalyze letter patterns to break substitution ciphers
- Vigenère CipherPolyalphabetic cipher using a repeating key
- Morse CodeText to/from Morse code with audio playback
- Binary ↔ TextConvert between binary and text representations
More to do
- 🛠️ WorkshopStack cipher steps into your own recipe and watch the text change at each one.
- 🏗️ Build a mazeElite members design their own maze, write the gates and pick the look.
- 🖼️ Member galleryMazes built by other players, ready to walk.
- 🏆 LeaderboardPoints are weighted by difficulty. Hints cost you, speed pays.
- 📡 Daily InterceptThree cipher puzzles a day: easy, medium and hard. Keep your streak going.
- ⚡ Cipher StormAn arcade codebreaker: encrypted words fall, you crack the key and type them before they land. Daily Storm and a leaderboard.
Top solvers
Full board →- 1@5a78756d34336131106,197 pts
- 2@lysander90,237 pts
- 3@subscriber28,258 pts
- 4@music27,435 pts
- 5@unsubmemes7,851 pts
👑 Go Elite
- Every maze and every chain, including each month's new releases
- New games as they launch, with their Elite modes
- Your own maze builder, and a place in the gallery
- Unlimited workbench steps and saved recipes
- The Daily Intercept archive and streak protection
- Cipher Storm's Relaxed, Fast and Advanced modes
- No ads
Founding member rate for the first 500 members: $2.99 a month, or $24.99 a year, locked in while you stay a member.
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