Solving Tools of the NPL

The —OBSOLETE—: Enigma Corrigenda are notes about errors and omissions in The Enigma.

Whether you need a letter bank of “snake” or a consonantcy of “Ucaoimhu,” there is a tool that fits.

The Dictionary Grep/Search uses our wordlists gathered from many sources to find terms using regular expressions.

We also have Dictionary Grep/Search - Advanced which provides more powerful options.

The Penrose Cryptogram Solver is a Java applet that tracks the details of solving a cryptogram.

Brutus, our cryptogram solver, is only available to Members

Form Friend is a tool from Lucifer@puzzlers.org to help build forms. Forms are an Extra in the Enigma; these are words interlocked to make a variety of shapes that can be simply rectangular or more complex.

Many of the solving tools rely on the start as a resource. These are large lists of a dictionary nature, that is, they are proper words and names as found in one or more common dictionaries. Each list has a different emphasis and origin.

Note: We claim no copyright on the content of the wordlists, since they are, as best we can determine, in the public domain.