ELITE
Go deeper into the Matrix · every Elite chain and maze · new games as they launch
Founding member pricing
For the first 500 members only. Join now and your price is locked in for as long as you stay a member.
This price won't last forever. Once the founding spots are gone, the price goes up for new members. Yours won't.
Best value
Yearly
$24.99/ year
Founding rate · locked in
About $2.08/month · save 30%
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Elite grows every month
New cipher chains and mazes drop every month, and new games are added to the site on a regular basis — Daily Intercept and Cipher Storm are the latest. As the site grows, so does Elite: more member benefits and features arrive with each new game, at no extra cost to you.
Free account vs Elite
| Free account | 👑 Elite | |
|---|---|---|
| All cipher & analysis tools | ✓ | ✓ |
| The five tutorials | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cascade chains | 21 free chains | 21 free + 48 Elite chains (165 stages) |
| Points, levels & leaderboard | ✓ | ✓ · Elite stages score higher |
| Workbench chain length | 3 steps | Unlimited |
| Saved & shareable recipes | — | ✓ |
| Daily Intercept | Today's three transmissions, with your streak and the daily leaderboard | ✓ plus the archive of every past day, and streak protection: one missed day a week won't break your streak |
| Cipher Storm | Normal and Daily Storm, with the Cipher Storm leaderboard | ✓ plus three Elite modes: Relaxed, Fast and Advanced (affine and keyword waves, ×1.5 points), with personal bests |
| 3D mazes | 4 free mazes, plus the seasonal maze during its season | All 23 mazes, the Elite wings, and every seasonal maze all year |
| Build your own maze | Play members' mazes | ✓ Maze builder, gallery, and decoding every bonus message |
| New every month | The free releases | All of them: at least 15 chains and 10 mazes a month |
| New games | Play each new game as it launches | ✓ plus every Elite mode and feature each new game brings |
| Ads | On some free pages | None |
The Elite chains
The Gilded Vault
The Elite wing of the 3D maze: a transposition fence, a mirrored key and a message sent in pulses. Each answer hands you the key to the next lock.
Cipher Cascade
Three ciphers stacked like firewalls: a shifted ship name, a Beaufort lock and a keyed alphabet built from a Sentinel program.
Logic Nexus
Three deduction grids — identity, time and space. Pure logic: every clue matters, nothing needs guessing.
The Ledger
The chain behind the blockchain maze: fingerprint a block, find the forged one, rebuild a Merkle root and mine the seal. Solved with the Blockchain Lab tools in the workbench.
The Mainframe
The chain inside the blue maze: a rail fence, a keyed column shuffle, an XOR mask and a message in raw binary. Nothing is substituted here, only moved and masked.
The Redline
The chain inside the red maze: break a shift cipher by counting letters, then follow the key through Vigenere, Beaufort and a keyed alphabet.
The Source
The chain inside the gold maze, and the hardest on the site: five gates, every one locked at least twice. Build the chain of steps that undoes each lock in reverse order.
Sequence Labyrinth
Fibonacci, Mersenne primes and perfect cubes — three sequences that guard three doors.
Cold Storage
The chain inside the server farm maze: hexadecimal, Base64 wrapped three deep, an XOR mask and a message in raw binary over a keyword cipher.
The Lost Temple
The chain inside the ruins maze: the oldest ciphers there are. A Roman shift, a zigzag, letters counted as numbers, and a mirror alphabet shuffled by columns.
The Crypt
The Elite wing of The Hollow: three locks under the house. A keyed alphabet, a shuffle by columns, and a message wrapped and shifted.
The Ice Vault
The Elite wing of The Whiteout: three locks cut into the glacier. Morse under a shift, a keyed alphabet, and a message turned to numbers and reversed.
Visual Enigma
Steganography: a word hidden in one colour channel, another in the least significant bits, and a final key that ties them together.
Temporal Paradox
Order a corrupted timeline, find where three futures converge, and trace a loop that has no beginning.
The Dust Observatory
An abandoned desert observatory where its last keeper left a trail of hidden messages leading to one final signal.
The Sunken Arcade
A flooded seaside arcade where old game cabinets still glow and hide messages left behind by a vanished crew of hackers.
The Glass Orchard
A huge abandoned greenhouse where vines have grown through old computer racks, and a hidden network still hums beneath the leaves.
The Tidewire Station
A forgotten coastal cable station where old undersea lines still hum, and every room holds a message left by the last engineer.
The Lantern Docks
A silent night harbor of stacked containers and sleeping cranes, where the last shift left a trail of hidden messages.
The Orbital Greenhouse
A silent greenhouse ring on a drifting space station, where the last gardener hid messages among the seed trays and the airlocks.
The Night Market
The chain inside the neon maze: a keyword cipher keyed by the place itself, a shuffled message, a mirror-keyed cipher and a note locked twice. Elite.
The Clockwork Cistern
A vast underground reservoir beneath a sleeping city, ruled by brass machinery and a terminal that was never switched off.
The Frostbound Signal
A frozen maze of ice-block walls where a lost weather beacon still sends messages through the falling snow.
The Crucible
The chain inside the foundry maze: a mirror-keyed cipher keyed by the place itself, a message woven on rails, a keyword cipher and an order locked twice. Elite.
The Root Cellar
The Elite wing of The Gathering: three locks under the farmhouse. Morse under a mirror, a shuffled message, and a note locked twice.
The Amber Carousel
A shuttered seaside amusement pier whose carousel hides a buried terminal and a trail of messages left by its last engineer.
The Neon Aquarium
A shuttered city aquarium whose glowing tanks now cool a hidden server farm, with one message left behind in each hall.
The Violet Rainfall
A dreamlike maze of corridors where violet code drifts like rain, hiding a trail of messages left by a vanished sleeper.
The Silent Runway
A decommissioned airfield where an abandoned network still hums, and each building holds a message left by the last engineer.
The Pale Beacon
A silent coastal lighthouse that secretly hides a hacker's relay, with messages left for anyone who climbs the tower.
The Drifting Spindle
A pale hull-panel ring station turning under stars, where loose cargo drifts and airlock doors shut without warning.
The Sodium Alley
A rain-soaked city block at night, where drones sweep the alleys and a courier crew hides its messages in plain sight.
The Tally Cloister
A silent cloister of hex-block corridors where an old clerk's ledger became a building, with every sum set in stone.
The Glass Foundry
A derelict glassworks on the edge of a sleeping city, where each cooling furnace hides a note left by the last night shift.
The Cobalt Harbor
A fog-wrapped harbor town where a missing dockmaster left a trail of notes among the cranes, boats and net lofts.
The Copper Apiary
A rooftop apiary above a sleeping city, where the bees and the sensors are hiding a secret.
The Paper Lantern
A hillside town's lamp-making workshop, where a festival is about to begin and a maker has left a trail of notes behind.
The Velvet Orchard
A hidden rooftop orchard above a sleeping city, tended by gardeners who leave their secrets in the leaves.
The Brass Orrery
A forgotten clockwork workshop on a seaside cliff, where a master tinkerer hid a final message among his moving models of the sky.
The Silent Lighthouse
A decommissioned island lighthouse whose keeper left behind a trail of notes for whoever could still read the lamp room.
The Tidal Observatory
A sea-battered observatory on a rocky island where a lone keeper left messages for whoever could follow his trail.
The Neon Arcade
A forgotten basement arcade whose cabinets still blink with messages left by a vanished game designer.
The Harvest Signal
A corn maze at the end of harvest, where a farmer's old radio hides messages among scarecrows, pumpkins and strutting wild turkeys.
The Basalt Crucible
A hidden forge deep inside a volcano, where glowing cracks light the black walls and steam vents guard the corridors.
The Silver Greenhouse
An abandoned botanical research dome where an old climate controller still hums and hides messages among the plants.
The Salt Telegraph
A decommissioned coastal telegraph station where old operators left hidden messages in the machinery and the maps.
The Velvet Aquarium
A shuttered city aquarium whose old control system still whispers messages through its tanks, pumps and lights.
The Crimson Cascade
A maze of falling red code inside an overheating relay tower, where a failing system leaves warnings for anyone brave enough to run its halls.
Questions
What is the founding member rate?
The first 500 people to join Elite pay $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year, and keep that price for as long as their membership stays active. When the founding spots are gone, the price goes up for new members only. If you cancel and come back later, the price at that time applies.
What do I get when new games are added?
Each new game has a free way to play. Elite members also get each game's Elite modes and extras as they arrive — so far that means the Daily Intercept archive and streak protection, and Cipher Storm's Relaxed, Fast and Advanced modes. There is nothing extra to buy.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes — from your account page (or at link.com, where Stripe lists your orders). You keep Elite until the end of the month or year you already paid for, and your points and progress stay on your account either way.
Who handles the payment?
Stripe, through its Link service, is the merchant of record: it processes the payment (card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Link), handles sales tax and VAT, and sends your receipts. Your statement shows LINK.COM* followed by our name. We never see or store your card details.
Can I switch between monthly and yearly?
Yes. Use “Manage plan” on your account page to change plans; the price is adjusted for the time left on your current period.
What happens to my Elite progress if I stop?
Nothing is lost. Points you earned stay on the leaderboard, and if you come back later your Elite chains pick up where you left off.
Why do I need to verify my email?
So receipts, renewal notices and account recovery reach you. It takes one click from the email we sent when you registered.