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This is an attempt to make a list of useful resources to help with solving puzzles that appear in many ARGs.

The goal here is for the majority of them to be online , but in some cases they will be software based.


Crypto[]

  • Briangle can solve substitution ciphers using a keyword, where the key does not have to be 26 letters without repeats
  • Quipqiup is a fast and automated cryptogram solver . It can solve simple substitution ciphers, including puzzles like cryptoquips (in which word boundaries are preserved) and patristocrats (inwhi chwor dboun darie saren t).
  • Multi-Dec - Has several crypto tools some of them in a format that allow several possibilities at the same time , created by Chris Baumann
  • Rumkin - One of the most used by people trying to solve ciphers due to the large amount of tools it has
  • DCode.fr - A collection of tools in both French and English including a Ceaser Cipher decoder that shows all 25 shifts at once
  • Yellowpipe - Another collection of tools , with some nice ones like the ROT that does all 25 at once
  • Text Filter - Online Text Tools,Text Editors, Text utilities, browser based.
  • The Black Chamber - Has a nice collection of diferent kinds of encryptions with an explanation on they work , followed by a tool that can help solve it
  • Codebreaking - Some detailed explanations on some ciphers work with tools to help
  • Cryptocrack - CryptoCrack is a classical cipher solving program and it is freeware
  • Rot13 (rot-n) encoder decoder - Allows diferent Rot shifts and has a collection of related sites
  • Rotation Encryption - Another site with diferent rotation possibilities.
  • Universal Enigma - A solver for the famous ENIGMA machine
  • Navy M3/M4 Enigma Machine Emulator
  • Solitaire - used to solve Solitare/ Pontifex cyphers
  • Braingle - A large collection of cypher solvers with an explanation on how they work
  • Bion's Gadgets - Yet another large collection of cyphers with their solvers
  • Crypto Club - a simple collection of crypto tools
  • Rot tool - Allow rotation of a full text numbers included
  • Decode Ingress toolset
  • Dcode
  • CrypTool-Online
  • Multi Encoder - Decoder
  • Tap code - Simple code used by prisioners
  • Ritz- Several decoder and encoder tools
  • Cryptii- Another colection of several tool for decode/encode which include the enigma machine
  • PGP word list

Encoding[]

  • Unicode Lookup is an online reference tool to lookup Unicode and HTML special characters, by name and number
  • Codepoints - Codepoints.net is dedicated to all the characters, that are defined in the Unicode Standard
  • HxD - An Hex Editor Software
  • XVI32 - A Windows based Hex editor software
  • Xor Files - freeware that allows enconding using Xor

Converter[]

  • coders toolbox - Has a couple of converters that are not found easily anywhere online
  • Xlate - Converts between many formats like ASCII, decimal, Hex, Base64, etc
  • Asciitohex - Similar to Xlate
  • Ascii Table - Because sometimes just having a reference and doing by hand works better
  • Megaconverter 2 - Allows conversions between a lot of diferent units
  • Unit Conversion - Great for converting between all those bases
  • Net Force - Some computer conversion tools . One highlight is the ASCII Shift one
  • Unit Converter - Unit metrics converter and moment of force converter.
  • Tools 4 Noobs - Another set of computer converters like the ASCII 85
  • unicode converter
  • EBCDIC Code Converter - allows conversion between ASCII and EBCDIC
  • Online Conversion- convert time mass , pretty much a ginat list of diferent items can be converted
  • Convert Case- Convert from caps to non caps and other text look changes



Video[]

Audio[]

Image[]

Anagram / Hangman solvers[]

Vocabulary[]

Online Encyclopedias[]

Geolocation[]

  • Google Maps - We all use it so explanation unnecessary
  • Bing Maps - Microsoft alternative to Google Maps
  • HERE maps - formerly Nokia Maps, really good alternative to Google/Bing -Maps

Misc.[]

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