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Codebreaker puzzles are an odd member of the crossword family, with the diagram already fully filled in. However, the letters are replaced by ciphers, each cipher corresponding with a letter. Unless stated explicitly all 26 letters of the alphabet are used. Generally one of more clues are given.

It was to avoid a quarrel on monday morning as 'de Volkskrant' (the paper) dropped on the doormat with its weekly codebreaker of Jan Meulendijks, that made me thinking of brewing up a piece of dynamic html with which to solve a codebreaker puzzle on the computer. And so I did.
Once that got into shape, the next step to create codebreakers wasn't that huge anymore. And it turned out that setting such a crossword was as much fun as solving it.
The fruits of this pursuit are (cq become) available on my website, and so may enjoy other people as well. Probably the frequency at which new puzzles are added is less than the one of the Dutch archive, but still.

Please note you need a recent browser, because the puzzle is stored in .xml format, a format not supported by less recent browsers.

The puzzle of the week is the most recent puzzle, in the archive the older puzzles are available.
The programmatic features are described by a seperate help-file, which can also be retrieved from the puzzle itself by clicking the button with the blue question-mark.

  There is also a dutch version of this page, with dutch puzzles.

Email: Rudy.Muller@net.HCC.nl

last modified: 11-nov-2004

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