🔐 Daily Cryptogram

Crack the code, reveal the quotation — a fresh cryptogram every day.

A cryptogram hides a famous quotation behind a substitution cipher — every letter stands for another letter. DailyGrid's Cipher deals quotes from a deck of 1,823, so the daily quotation doesn't repeat for about five years. Early-week puzzles pre-reveal a hint letter or two; weekend puzzles leave you on your own.

▶ Play today's Cryptogram — free How to play & strategy Cipher strategy: patterns first

How DailyGrid's Cryptogram works

🗓️ A fresh puzzle every day at midnight Eastern — and it never repeats: every puzzle is checked against everything we've published.
📈 Difficulty ramps with the week: 2 hint letters on easy days, 1 midweek, none on hard days.
💸 The daily puzzles are free. Always. No subscription, no account, no locked boards.

Tips

Start with the one-letter word — in English it's almost always A or I.
Hunt for THE. The most common three-letter pattern, especially at sentence starts.
Use apostrophes. A letter after one is usually S, T, D, or LL follows in words like I'LL.

Solving the daily cryptogram keeps your DailyGrid streak alive — and quotations never repeat thanks to the shuffled-deck guarantee.

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