Crypt550
Description
Crypt550 is a simple program that can help you solve cryptograms, crosswords, and other word puzzles.
What it does is returns a list of words that match a pattern.
For example, if a cryptogram has the encrypted word such as "fgttw",
inputing this word will return all words that match that pattern, including one
like "hello".
How To Construct a Pattern
All patterns are typed in as a string into the text field at the top of the window. There are several
different things that can be used:
1. Letters
The most basic thing is pure letters. For example, typing in "hello" will only return one word, "hello".
There is not much to do with just letters.
2. Wild Cards
Wild Cards signify that that particular character can be anything. The character used to represent this
is a dash ("-"). For example, typing "--" will return all two letter words, while typing "a-" will return
all two letter words that start with a, like "an" and "as".
3. Replacing Characters
Replacing Characters are used for signiffing patterns, such as those in cryptograms. Numbers ("0" to "9")
are used for this. An example would be "0110", where the first and last character are the same, and the
two middle characters are also the same (also, the character that "0" represents can't be the same as the one
"1" represents). This would return "sees".
Download
Download Crypt550 v0.3 in dmg format.
Crypt550 is produced by Five Fifty Software. It is still a beta,
and as such is in need of many improvements. Please e-mail suggestions.
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