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Cryptogram Tale

Unravel the hidden story!

Ratings

Age

13+

Category

Word

Languages

English

Cryptogram Tale is a word puzzle game that challenges you to decode messages by replacing letters. Each solved puzzle reveals a piece of a story, ranging from classic fables to original tales. With thousands of ciphers and various customization options like fonts and color schemes, it offers an engaging experience for word game enthusiasts.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

76/100

Cryptogram Tale is a treat for anyone who loves word puzzles and storytelling. It takes the classic substitution cipher and wraps it in a charming narrative wrapper. Decoding a passage and realizing you've just unlocked a part of an old fable or a custom story gives you a great sense of progression that most word games lack.

The UI is clean and customizable, which is important when you're staring at letters for a long time. It’s a great 'brain workout' app that feels more substantial than a simple crossword. While the core gameplay never changes, the variety of stories and the daily challenges keep it fresh. It’s a quiet, intellectual experience that is perfect for winding down at the end of the day.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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Thousands of unique cryptograms to solve

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Hundreds of unlockable stories and tales

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Customizable fonts and color themes

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Helpful hint system for difficult ciphers

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Daily puzzles to keep your brain sharp

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

A cryptogram is a type of word puzzle where each letter is replaced by a different letter or symbol consistently throughout the message.

Ratings & Reviews

Excellent way to spend my time
Sat Oct 03 2020 DKKeyes

If you like cryptograms this app is definitely worth your while. I like that it has a good variety of different styles from short tales, ancient tales, poems, and other styles of writing. And with a repertoire of different authors each cryptogram exposes you to a different style of writing. What makes it even more fun for me, is that, by the time you’re done with a cryptogram you will have also read a new book or story, which can take as long as you want (you can pick how lengthy a tale you wanna tackle and it saves your progress automatically so you can take as many days, months, or years to finish one). And if you get bored you can always work on a new one or go back and pick off where you left off on an old one. I’d also like to add, the developer was very responsive when I submitted feedback about a small bug I came across on a prior version which was fixed pretty quickly on the next update. Thank you for taking my feedback!

Awesome
Wed Sep 28 2022 Lisa25843784

I never take the time to review games, but this one is so good, I want to give my thanks to the developers with a review. The ad free version is worth paying for, since there’s so much content you can literally play this game for years before solving every story. There are tons of stories and poems available, and you can see how long each one is before you choose to start it. I’ve been playing for months and I’ve solved around 5 classic stories so far. If you need a hint, you don’t have to pay anything, just watch an ad, and I’ve only used 8 hints in the past few months, so ad watching is a rare thing. This game is a lot more fun than regular cryptogram games because you get rewarded with a whole story to read as you solve, rather than just a little saying or quote. I love this game!

Great Way to learn As You Solve
Sat Oct 21 2023 twistedchic

I really enjoy this. The level of difficulty is not to bad. The only thing that I would maybe consider is that the space between the letters gets confusing. This may be part of the puzzle though. If that’s the case then it makes sense why it can be confusing at first. I really enjoy the story and how it keeps going as you finish each puzzle. I love science and space. I don’t want to give away spoilers. The story is very good and is based on non fiction. It’s not some stupid 3 in a row junk. That’s all any of the other puzzles or games have lost value. Even for the younger kids this is a great way to learn how to solve , read, write, and figure out how sentences are written or the correct way to use English, punctuation, spelling. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to do any of the above things I mentioned for any of the reasons. Also a great way to brush up on some basic and strategic thinking.

Favorite Game but Those Crashes!!
Sat Apr 20 2024 SammL310

Only game I play that first freezes, then crashes my iPhone 15 Pro, impervious to repeated manual attempts to reboot. The whole freeze, lock, crash, restart process takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and happens at minimum twice a day. Bad enough that it’s so annoying, but killing my time and my phone is wearing me out. To reiterate, I have had no other game in the years I’ve used mobile apps, cause this issue. Please address, help, fix so I can go back to the 5 Star Joy this game has given me.

Started out great…
Thu Aug 10 2023 Phoenix1080

The app started out great. It was a fun way to pass the time. The tales are interesting. They aren’t impossibly hard to solve. Earning hints was easy (just watch an ad or two). But the last couple of days I’ve not been able to earn any hints because of the placement of the close button on the ads. I play on my phone and the close button is in the upper right hand corner. It’s happened quite a few times before. I would simply close the app, reopen it, and watch a different video. But like I said, for the last couple of days, the only videos I get are ones with the close button where I can’t click it. It’s been at least a year since the last update, so I’m not hopeful about getting another one soon enough to solve this issue. I’d rate this higher if I could properly utilize all of the features

Needs more mature taste in literature
Sun Jan 14 2018 Readingaloud

An excellent idea with a couple of flaws, both related to the choice of texts. The first is that unless there are some peculiar features in a passage, they’re rarely difficult to solve—pull out A and I, and then look for a likely THE. Then, since you already know the general subject of the passage, the solution is usually pretty obvious. But I can see how some people would find this a virtue—it can be relaxing to knock off a series of easy puzzles. The second flaw relates to the developer’s taste in literature. The selections aren’t bad, exactly, but they’re all the sort of stories that appeal particularly to teenage boys. I find myself groaning (and often skipping to the next one) as soon as I recognize the text, usually on the first page. Selections chosen by someone with more mature literary taste would be very welcome.

Has some issues
Sat Oct 28 2023 Duncan M McKee

It’s a cool idea and worth checking out, but it’s not as well made as I’d like. The keyboard should open when you select a letter. The default font is poorly rendered – I suggest switching fonts if that bothers you. There is no “undo” button, which would be very useful. The fact that capitalized words are revealed, but only after you enter the first letter, is a bit weird. Worst though – the stories aren’t consistently well-suited to be cryptograms. I’ve run into several problems already playing the first story on the hardest mode: There was a name with a middle initial that didn’t appear elsewhere in the segment, so there’s no way to figure that out other than guessing letters one by one. Long conversations make the segments too easy because of the repeated phrases like “said the orderly.” The story has a long list of made-up slang terms, which made several segments near impossible, because they had no common words and few real words.

I’m so upset :(
Mon Jul 26 2021 teecuppz

I’ve taken quite a liking to the game, and have been playing it quite a bit at night. Yet recently, all of my progress had been deleted. I was heartbroken that everything had reset after the effort that I had put in. I had almost completed another story too :( The story’s are so intriguing, although many I’ve played are quite dark. The mechanics are wonderful, and are easy to use and understand. Truly, the only reason my review had been placed at 2 stars was because of all of my progress deleting. I hope this can be fixed and that this doesn’t happen in the future :(

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