Caesarle
Final answer · one shot, ends the game
Today's secret word has been run through a Caesar cipher:
every letter pushed forward the same number of places (the shift,
1–25), wrapping Z back to A. With a shift of 1, PASTE
becomes QBTUF.
Probe rows (up to 6). Each one is a 5-letter guess, plus an optional shift guess. Leave the shift blank to skip the check. Every guess is checked against the encrypted word:
A probe can be a real word (SLATE) or a real word
written in today's cipher (TMBUF, if the shift is 1).
Cipher gibberish in the wrong shift is rejected, and so is anything else
that isn't a word. A rejected probe doesn't use a row, but it costs 5 points.
Final answer. Tap the row under the board (or press Tab) and type the real, decoded word. You only get one try, and it ends the game.
| Correct final answer | +100 |
| 🏛️ No probes (Veni, vidi, vici) | +60 |
| 1 probe | +30 |
| 2 probes | +20 |
| 3 probes | +10 |
| 4 probes | 0 |
| 5 probes | −10 |
| 6 probes | −20 |
| 🔑 Cracked the key (hit the exact shift) | +25 |
| 🕶️ No shift checks (never entered a shift guess) | +50 |
| 📜 Speaks cipher (a probe accepted only in cipher) | +15 |
| 🙈 Ignored the signs (a shift guess the arrows already ruled out) | −10 each |
| 🗡️ Et tu? (probed the real answer instead of locking it in) | −15 |
| 🚫 Barbarians at the gate (a probe rejected as not-a-word) | −5 each |
| 💀 Wrong final answer (no bonuses; rejections still count) | −25 |
The ◎ cipher wheel on the left lets you line up the two alphabets at any shift and test words. It's a scratchpad and doesn't know today's answer.
Think a word should (or shouldn't) be in the game? Tell me.
Keyboard: letters to type, digits for the shift, Enter to probe (shift optional), Tab to switch to the final answer.
This is your only final answer. The game ends either way.