Puzzle Solving Resources

This is a list of resources specific to solving hunt puzzles and hunts. Puzzle Resources gives a list of general resources, while Puzzle Writing Resources gives resources tailored for writing puzzles; some of these resources may be helpful when solving puzzles as well.

Tool Collections

 * Puzzlehunt.Net - Tools - A collection of useful tools for Word- or Cipher-based puzzles.
 * QHex - Various puzzle tools, for both word and logic puzzles.
 * Snap / util.in - Collection of tools including a word search solver, anagram solver, and regex finder
 * Wikibruce Puzzle Tools - A lot of tools, including measurement conversions, steganography, ciphers, and linguistic resources.
 * Red Luth Riddle Tools - Collection of tools, mostly for codes and ciphers
 * enigmatics - Resources

Transcription

 * Xword Group - Crossword grid maker.
 * Crossword Parser - Translates an image of a crossword grid to a copyable spreadsheet.

Reverse Image Search

 * Huntress - Chrome browser extension

Word Finders and Pattern Matchers

 * NPL Flat Solver - A collection of tools to help solve NPL-style Flat puzzles
 * Nutrimatic - Regex word and phrase finder.
 * Quinaplus (Things Cruciverbal) - A collection of crossword tools, including a creator (Qxw) and a Regex word finder (Qat).
 * Onelook - Multi-Dictionary Regex-ish word and phrase finder.
 * Missing letters crossword solver -  crossword solving help
 * Phonetic word search

Anagram Solvers

 * Anagram Solver
 * Iterative Anagram Solver - Helps with solving multi-word anagrams word-by-word.

Puzzle hunt codes and codesheets

 * Morse Code Translator
 * ASCII to Hex - Does what it says on the tin, along with other numerical encryption + Rot13.
 * Monkey - Quick Morse code, Braille, Semaphore, and Amino Acid conversion
 * mstang - Puzzle Tools - Braille, Morse, Semaphore (with keyboard controls)
 * A Quick Guide to Codes and Ciphers - Poster by Justin Ladia

Apps

 * Puzzle Sidekick (iOS)
 * Puzzlehunt Assistant (Android)
 * Puzzle Pal (Android)
 * Puzzle Tools (Windows Phone)

Ciphers

 * Quipqiup - Cryptogram solver.
 * Rumkin Cipher Tools
 * Rot-n Decoder - Variable caesar cipher decoding, including multiple shifts at once.
 * Ciphers/Codes/Cryptography cheat sheet - ref.wikibruce.com (Many Ciphers)
 * DCode - Various ciphers.

Logic Puzzle Solvers
For Nikoli-like grid logic puzzles, also see Comparison of logic puzzle solvers for a list of genres that these websites support.


 * Noq - Grid-based logic puzzle solver.
 * Sudokuwiki - Step-by-step sudoku solver, also supports diagonal and killer sudoku
 * f-puzzles - Sudoku solver supporting many different variants
 * pzprRT - Logic puzzle solver supporting Yajilin, Heyawake, Masyu, Slitherlink, Tapa, and other genres
 * PolyForm Puzzle Solver - Polyomino (and other shapes) dissection solver
 * LogicalSolver - Helper for solving logic grid or Einstein riddles-like puzzles
 * grilops - Library for useful constraint solving tools specifically for logic puzzles (intended for coding to solve new or variant puzzle types)