About me
Cicely
I'm Cicely — I work in data science and fraud detection as my day job, which I like to think is another way of solving puzzles. I build puzzles that I like to solve, and so I hope that you like to solve them too.
Who Noodler is for
Noodler is for people who like a quiet puzzle break: those of us that solve crosswords on our commute or with our morning cup of tea. Just a few minutes of good, satisfying word and logic puzzles.
It's for children and adults alike: all puzzlers welcome.
Why Noodler exists
Noodler started as a single cipher game and is built to grow into a small home for daily puzzles — games that take a few focused minutes, reward pattern-spotting over trivia, and don't ask anything of you beyond showing up once a day. Quipher is the first; it won't be the last.
The site is structured as a shared foundation with a consistent look and feel, so new daily puzzles can be added over time without the ones already there changing underneath you.
How the cipher works
Quipher is a daily substitution-cipher game: every letter in a quote is swapped for a number, and it's the same swap throughout the whole quote, so cracking one letter cracks every instance of it at once. There's no fixed key to memorise — the substitution is generated fresh from that day's date and quote, so it changes daily instead of repeating a static A-to-Z table.
How quotes get chosen
Every quote is picked for who said it as much as for how well it disguises into a cipher. Solving one should leave you with a bit of history, literature, or science trivia along with the satisfaction of cracking the code — that's why a solved puzzle surfaces a short note about the quote's author, not just the answer.
What's next
Noodler has since grown from that one puzzle into three: Quipher, Sudoku, and Alibi. Each has its own page, reachable from the "Daily Puzzles" picker on the home page.
How it treats your data
There is no backend and no accounts. Your in-progress guesses and stats live in your browser's local storage, not on a server — full details on exactly what's collected (and what isn't) are on the privacy policy.