Happy Thanksgiving from the Portal. The Gathering, a harvest cipher maze, is free to play until 30 November. Enter The Gathering
Cipher Storm
Crack the key · type the plaintext · don't let them land
Scored separately. Cipher Storm has its own leaderboard; its scores don't add to your total points.
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Encrypted words fall through the rain. Type the plaintext before they hit the ground.
Crack the key, double your points. Each wave hides its words with a new key. Find it with the tools on the right and every word scores ×2.
👑 Elite modes
🦃 Thanksgiving storm: 24 seasonal words are in the mix.
The first wave walks you through it. Type on your keyboard; a wrong letter just bounces off, so there's nothing to delete. The shortcuts are under the key dial.
Scored separately: Cipher Storm has its own leaderboard, and its scores don't add to your total points.
The first wave walks you through it. Tap the letter keys under the storm; your phone's own keyboard stays out of the way, and a wrong letter just bounces off. Hold your phone upright.
Every wave hides its words with one key: a Caesar shift on most waves, an Atbash mirror on every third. Type the plaintext of any falling word to clear it. Watch the frequency bars: the tallest letter is probably E. Turn the key dial until the lens reads English, then lock it: plaintext appears under every word, each scores double, and you get one integrity point back. A wrong lock jams the dial for three seconds.
Words score 10 × letters × wave, and clearing a wave adds 50 × wave. Three words reaching the ground ends the storm. Daily Storm deals the same keys and words to everyone today, so you can compare runs with friends.
Thanksgiving: while the season lasts, 24 seasonal words fall with the usual ones, in every mode, Daily Storm included. Free for everyone.
Elite modes: Relaxed slows the storm and keeps lock assist to wave 8; Fast starts at wave-5 speed; Advanced mixes affine and keyword waves in from wave 7 and scores ×1.5. Elite runs keep your personal bests on your dashboard; the leaderboard is for Normal and Daily Storm. See Elite.