Halloween at the Portal. The Hollow, a haunted cipher maze, is free to play until 2 November. Enter The Hollow

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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.

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Halloween at the Portal. Halloween at the Portal. The Hollow, a haunted cipher maze, is free to play until 2 November. Enter The Hollow · until 2 November →

What's new

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15 new chains and 10 new mazes every month. So far in October: 6 chains and 10 mazes.

Walk the mazes

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First-person 3D mazes. Find the terminals, crack each cipher to open its gate, and collect the data fragments for a hidden bonus message.

Break the chains

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  1. Read the intercept. Each stage is a scrambled message and a short story clue.
  2. Pick your tools. Shift it, swap it, count the letters. The workbench is built in.
  3. Unlock the next stage. Your answer is the key to the one after it.

New to ciphers? The five tutorials need no account and teach binary, Caesar shifts, sequences and logic grids. Elite adds 29 harder chains.

37 free cipher tools

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Encoders, decoders and code-breaking helpers. No account, no limits. Know how one works? Try it against a real puzzle.

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Top solvers

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  1. 1@lysander69,782 pts
  2. 2@subscriber24,734 pts
  3. 3@music23,721 pts
  4. 4@unsubmemes7,851 pts
  5. 5@val1,588 pts

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  • Every maze and every chain, including each month's new releases
  • Your own maze builder, and a place in the gallery
  • Unlimited workbench steps and saved recipes
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