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ARG Tools is a set of tools, reference material, and links for anyone who plays Alternate Reality Games, participates in transmedia storytelling, or solves puzzle trails. The tools range from decoder-ring style codebreaking to countdown timer prediction. The reference material includes word frequency, morse code, semaphore, and more.
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Reference Free Brian Enigma iPhone, iPad, iPod

Included in this package are:
• Dictionary:
  ◦ Search for words matching patterns (e.g. all possible crossword answers)
• Encoding/Decoding:
  ◦ ROT-N (from 1 to 26, including ROT-13)
  ◦ BASE64
  ◦ Vigenere / Beaufort
  ◦ Transposition
  ◦ Substitution
• Character Encodings
  ◦ Braille
  ◦ Fingerspelling
  ◦ Letters to numbers (1..26) and ASCII
  ◦ Nautical Flags
  ◦ Moon Alphabet
  ◦ Morse code (two representations)
  ◦ Myst D'ni Glyphs
  ◦ Phonetic alphabet
  ◦ Pigpen Cipher (two representations)
  ◦ Roman Numerals
  ◦ Semaphore (two representations)
• Tools and Reference
  ◦ A red/green/blue color mixer with hex and decimal values
  ◦ A list of common English words, letters, letter pairs
  ◦ Billiard ball colors
  ◦ Countdown timer prediction
  ◦ Dart board scoring
  ◦ Dewey Decimal System
  ◦ ISO Country Codes
  ◦ Mathematical Constants, Prime Numbers
  ◦ Music Notes and their Frequencies
  ◦ Planets
  ◦ Periodic Table
  ◦ Resistor Color Codes
  ◦ Zodiac, Chinese Zodiac
  ◦ Quick access to Google, Wikipedia, Sudoku Step-Solving, Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

The design goals of this application include:
• Easy to use in the field
• Downloadable over the air so you can quickly obtain it without computer access
• Free-as-in-beer!

Reviews

Pretty cool
leecostic

This is a pretty cool app because it has different codes in it, not just the Caeser cipher that all the other code apps have. Also it tells you about the code so you can do it without your iThingy, like on paper. The best part of this app is that it's FREE!!! WHO DOESNT LIKE FREE????!!!!


Codebreakers Swiss Army Knife
PapaDe

I really appreciate this app with it's straight forward interface. The app has a lot of potential use for the AR Gamer, Geocacher and anyone who enjoys cryptography. Thank you so much for putting this app together.


Happy Cacher
Nuwati

Thank you for this. Geocachers check this one out. 8 years ago I kept most of this stuff in a folder, now I have it all on the same device that contains my cache info. Way to go.


Great job!
efrainternet

All these tools in one (free!!!) app, awesome.


Bravo!
Chivalric

Awesome app guys. I haven't just enjoyed learning and using the codes, but I also like the links to the websites you'e provided. An unexpected surprise. Thanks!


Great app!
Rcmodels

Jus cracked my first code for an arg with it in seconds! The Dexter arg players are pumped


ARG Greatness
Larry Eisner

BriEnigma has always and consistently brought quality and clarity to the ARG scene. This app only continues that streak of excellence! Thanks man! (Dorkmaster)


Nice for free...but
Behill01

This app is nice for free, but if it had a simple option to ignore non-text characters for Vigenere decodes, it would be better.


Handy and easy, 5 stars!
Xolocaust

All-in-one, free, far better then loafing or playing angrybirds))))


simple and effective
antonymnz

I don't even know why it does not have 4 or 5 stars, it makes decoding and encoding effortless.


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