Beale Cipher 3

What is a Beale Cipher?

A Beale cipher (more precisely a book cipher) uses a shared text as a codebook. Each word in the text is assigned a sequential number starting at 1. To represent a letter, the sender picks any word whose first letter matches and writes down that word's number. Because many words can start with the same letter, the same plaintext letter can produce different cipher numbers each time — making frequency analysis much harder.

New in Version 3: Individual Digit Particles

💧 Digit Pile-Up

When you click Encode, each letter's cipher number (e.g., the number 1432 for the letter T in TIME MACHINE) is split into individual digit particles: 1, 4, 3, 2. These digits rain down one by one, landing in a tight pile at the letter's home position while the original letter fades away. Longer numbers (hundreds, thousands) produce larger piles.

💥 Explosion Cloud

Once every digit for every letter has arrived, the entire canvas explodes. Every digit particle blasts outward at high speed, filling the screen with a dense, colourful number cloud. Trails can be enabled (Environment card) for a streaking comet effect.

✨ Per-Letter Reveal

Press Assemble (or Space). Each digit steers back toward its assigned home position within its letter's pile. Once all digits for a given letter have returned, the original letter materialises with a bright scale-pop burst and its matching key-text word glows cyan in the ticker strip. Letters reveal in a cascade until the full word reappears.

How to Encode

1. Type your message in the Encode tab (A–Z, 30 chars max).
2. Click Encode. Watch the digit rain and the pile-up on the canvas.
3. After the explosion, copy the cipher numbers and share them along with the key text.

How to Decode

1. Paste cipher numbers into the Decode tab (space- or comma-separated).
2. Click Decode. Digit particles scatter across the canvas.
3. Press Assemble and watch each letter materialise, one at a time.

Key-Text Used

"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury — a tribute to the butterfly-effect theme running through the SWCharacter Saga. Never read it? Read it here — and explore the Key-Text Index to see exactly which word numbers map to each letter.