Difficulty

Medium Cryptogram Puzzles — 171 to Decode

This is the main collection — most of the corpus sits at this single middle tier, which means the widest choice of authors, categories and quote lengths of any bucket on the site. If you only ever solve from one place, it will probably be here.

Fewer letters are pre-revealed than in the easy bucket, and the quotes are no longer chosen for familiarity — so this is roughly where guessing by pure recognition stops working and counting starts. Track which numbers show up most often, try them as E or T first, and watch for the short two- and three-letter words that pin down an, the, and, you. That's the actual skill the game is teaching, and this is where it clicks.

It's also the fairest test of where you stand: solve comfortably here and the hard bucket is a reasonable next step; if it still takes a while, there is a lot more practice available in this one tier alone before you need to move on.

Medium puzzles