MBST1 online puzzle game

MBST1 puzzle game - the basics

The game interface consists of just 3 elements: input box (A), validator box (B) and the decoding area (C).

online puzzle game

The decoding area consist of boxes, each containing a single letter of the encoded message (green letter), below there is a space left for what you think is the character in original message. On low difficulty level the game will decode the first letter of the message.

online decoding game

When you press any letter or number key on your keyboard the input box will show which character you have chosen and now the interface expects you to press another key to select to which character you want to change this one.

online decoding game

Also this causes every single use of that character in whole message to lit up in green, so you would now where else you will make a change. Game substitutes every single use of the character you have chosen in the whole message at the same time.

online decoding game

If the letter you have chosen was already used as substitution the previous substitution will be remove. In example below U was substituted by O, but by substitution of N by letter O now U is unsubstituted.

online decoding game

Validator box will inform you when you have correctly subtituted the whole message, which means every single letter is correctly substituted.

online decoding game

All messages are endoded using simple letter substitution, in which every letter is replaced by another one, but always the same one in each cypher. Each cypher is encoded using different key, so even if you try the same message again it will require finding the right substitution character for each letter.

online decoding game


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