Cipher Sprint
🕵️ A Sherlock Holmes game — The consulting detective himself
The dancing men are marching, and the clock is against you. Each round shows a word encoded in the famous stick-figure cipher; type what it says and the next files in. Sixty seconds, escalating word lengths, a combo meter for consecutive solves — and the alphabet chart is right there, because speed-reading it is the whole game.
- ✅ Free
- 🔓 No sign-up
- 🌐 Runs in your browser
What it does
Real cipher, real speed
The same dancing-men glyphs from the Cipher Bureau, now against a countdown.
Escalating difficulty
Three-letter words to start; solve fast and the words grow longer.
Combo scoring
Consecutive solves build a multiplier — one mistake resets it.
How to play
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1
Hit start — the first word marches in.
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2
Read the dancers against the chart and type the word.
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3
Beat your best before the minute dies.
Train in the Cipher Bureau first if the dancers still look like gymnastics to you.