The Cryptex

Every solved puzzle, ReDeal, and manual "New Game" marker is logged automatically. Always on.

Ctrl+Alt+X to toggle. Every table edit is applied via "Apply & New Game" and persists automatically across relaunches, same as ordinary browser-remembered settings. Save Config additionally downloads a named snapshot (cryptex-config.json) you can return to later; Load Config reads one back in and makes it the new ongoing state. When hosted (not run as a local file), a matching config file next to the game overrides everything and loads automatically on launch — that's the deliberate "shipped/baked-in" build config. Phase settings hold for "Games to Advance" completed games, then move to the next phase; the last phase runs indefinitely. Streak Reset is the phase to fall back to when a streak ends. 2RH% >100 disables red herrings for that round. Letter Length is candidates per cylinder (4–20). Cap Multiplier of 0 disables the spin cap for that round (its window is hidden); otherwise the cap is Cap Multiplier × the round's theoretical minimum, counting down by 1 per spin and by Lifeline Penalty per lifeline used — hitting 0 ends the game. Score is 1000 × (Score Multiplier − r) ÷ (Score Multiplier − 1) × (1 + Streak × 0.05) × (1 + Letter Length × 0.01), where r is actual spins ÷ this round's spin minimum. Perfect play (r=1) at streak=0 scores 1040–1200 depending on that round's Letter Length (4–20), not a flat 1000 — the difficulty multiplier is bounded (1.04–1.20) since Letter Length is bounded, while the streak multiplier is unbounded; both apply multiplicatively, so a large streak amplifies the difficulty bonus too rather than the two staying independent. Score Multiplier is the r value where the base performance term hits zero (the "pick-up point," like 2x-par in golf), so it must stay above 1 — the field enforces that. Result is floored at a minimum of 50 points per round as the very last step, then added to the running game total. Library Low/High set the 1-indexed range within the frequency-ordered word list that round's target may be drawn from; higher numbers mean rarer, harder words. Total Min (0 = off): otherwise, a round total (clamped to 8–40) split across the 4 wheels randomly — each wheel gets between 2 and 15, handed out unevenly on purpose, so the same total can produce very different-feeling rounds (e.g. 17 could land as 4/4/5/4 or 3/4/3/7), never a fixed shape. Note: a Total Min of exactly 8 forces every wheel to precisely 2 (no spread possible — it's the floor times 4). The total itself is always exact; only how it's divided up varies, freshly, every round. Costs one decoy slot per wheel. Individual wheels clamp down automatically if Letter Length is too small to fit their assigned share twice over (shouldn't occur in the intended 10–16 Letter Length range, but stays safe regardless). Plausibility % (100 = default): how strongly decoys lean toward plausible-sounding letters (real word-initial/bigram frequency data) versus flat/uniform selection within the already-safe pool — 0 makes every safe decoy equally likely regardless of how plausible it sounds; 100 is full strength. This only ever changes how often an eligible decoy gets picked, never which letters are eligible — the collision guard and the safe/checked boundary are completely unaffected at any setting. The no-repeat cache (last 75 targets, independent of the current window) persists for the whole session, not per phase or per game — so a narrow window can take a while to fully cycle, and a window smaller than ~75 words will force early repeats. Given-letter "jail": no given letter can appear more than 2 times within the last 20 rounds (reuses the same recent-targets history, falls back to ignoring the rule if it would leave zero eligible words for a narrow Library window).