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Category : Puzzle
Reviews (30)
I've only rated it 3 stars because it's not formatted for the S8, viz, the screen formatting is too wonky to play. That being said, I played on my earlier device, the S6, and it was fun and challenging. Definitely worth DLing if you're a crypto dork (like me). Devs, fix the format issue and I'll happily change my rating to 5 stars.
I really enjoyed this game, right up until I ran out of advanced puzzles. Now I can't even start an advanced game. It would be great if more complicated types of ciphers were added!
Having the option buttons right undearneath the keyboard made it hard to play without making a mistake by accidentally clicking on them. Guessing names for this is hard even for beginner. Most people try and decode words not names in most cases. Other than that it is fun to play.
Two letters were missing on keyboard P and L. If you are going to leave out letters L isn't the best choice
You should change it to use the phone's default keyboard, the in app one is cut off, there are no P or L keys.
I like this game great puzzle, but the keyboard doesn't have P or L making some of the puzzles unsolvable.
It started off as an awesome game... Should've read more of the reviews, but seriously ? Come on, guys ! The game has had the same glitch for at least 3 years, and in that time, ya'll have updated it at least once... Why is there still a glitch ?!? Did you guys just give up on it
I wish there was a more challenging difficulty level though.
Great game. More puzzles would be nice. One puzzle is incorrect, though. The author of "The Cuckoo's Egg" is Clifford Stoll, not Stall.
If NSA created this app, I'd say you guys are awesome! The puzzles are really hard to decode! How can you possibly decode this when certain letters from keyboard are missing! Nice job! GREATEST app of all time!
Doesn't have the letters P or L on keyboard. Boring.
Great app with the most horrible bug!
The game is challenging. Perhaps you could use foreign languages to decrypt to make it harder.
Fix the keyboard and this will be fun.
No P or L on keyboard! Can't use default keyboard, makes the game useless !!!
Good game but letters p and l are missing from keyboard
This app doesn't respond at all.
No p or L. Can't solve without ALL the letters!
P, L and CLEAR missing on the keyboard. Can't complete the game. Can you pls fix this
Renders the app useless
Missing "p" key. Why can't you use the default keyboard???
The keys p and L are missing. In your keyboard
Funny Challenging
No P&L on the keyboard... What the heck??? FIX IT!!!
Love it
Interesting
I love puzzle and code games. This one was fun to play and I enjoyed the historical bits and quotes. This app fell short however when I couldn't complete the puzzles due to the keyboard being cut short. I tried rotating my Samsung galaxy to see if that gave me the full keyboard and it didn't. I tried pinching, dragging, minimizing. Sadly nothing worked. If I don't have all the letters I can't solve the puzzle. Get this bug fixed and I will reinstall and give it five stars.
No P or L keys. I assume there's some sort of clever NSA crypto reason for this because otherwise it's just unthinkable incompetence, but all I wanted was a few puzzles. I'll try elsewhere. Uninstalling.
I like this game but my game keyboard is missing a 'p' and there's no clear option. Its not my keyboard as i have those things, and it looks like I'm not alone.Fix this and then ill give it the other star. Also it'd be nice if you explained the difference between the levels. I was done with a whole puzzle in intermediate before i realized why it was harder than beginner
Best app ever, but they - neighbors - hacked it - it doesn't open anymore. All not ordinary stuff gets hacked here - because German hypocratical "Angst" is always more important than every constitutional right of not Germans. At the end the potential butter bread they are waiting for could be stolen by immigrants before Germans are able to bake it and to have money for the butter, so they prefer to damage the immigrant able to bake and with enough money to buy. Unfair advanteges!