[Keith Vetter] 2009-10-10 -- several years ago I was an avid cryptogram
solver. I used a program called CryptoAid that helped in solving the
puzzle--not by any fancy solving logic but simply by doing the tedious
grunt work enabling you to try different possible solutions.

Recently I wanted to try my hand again at cryptograms but when I dug
out CryptoAid it wouldn't run anymore (missing some VB libraries). A
cursory Google check lead only to dead links. So I thought it would
be fun to spend a few hours and rewrite it in tcl. (A later, deeper
check reveals that the program is still maintained and available
at http://www.rrufer.com.)

You can type in a cryptogram puzzle from, say, the local paper or
can use one of the 500 built-in puzzles. There's also an option
to scrap the day's puzzle from my cryptogram website, 
Cryptogram Corner [http://www.geocities.com/cryptogramcorner/].


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