Holy Word: Bible Cryptograms
Verse puzzles, play offline
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now on iPad: twenty engravings by Gustave Doré at full size. Break the cipher letter by letter and the plate is yours. No timers, no scores, no rush.
Every verse is a cipher. Each letter has turned into a number, and the same number always hides the same letter. Find one and the rest starts to fall.
Solve five verses from a chapter and its engraving opens — a full plate by Gustave Doré, the artist who illustrated scripture for the nineteenth century. Twenty plates in all: the Creation, the Ark, the Tower of Babel, Jacob and the angel, the parting of the sea, the trials of Job, Daniel in the lions' den, Jonah and the great fish, the Sermon on the Mount, the Last Supper.
On iPad a plate fills the screen, close to the size it was printed at.
108 verses from the World English Bible, ordered so the first ones open easily and the last ones make you earn them.
HOW IT PLAYS
• Tap a letter to set it. A wrong letter never sticks — it shakes and clears.
• The keyboard counts how many places each letter still has, and dims the letters you have finished.
• Three hints per puzzle, for when the wall is too high.
• Nothing is timed. Nothing is scored against you.
WHAT YOU COLLECT
• 20 engravings by Gustave Doré — five verses each
• Six threads to follow: Comfort, Wisdom, Love, Hope, Strength, Peace
• Every plate stays yours once it opens
PAPER AND INK
Parchment, letterpress serif, a wax seal, engraved keys. Made to feel like a book you are writing in, not a screen you are tapping.
Works offline. No account, no sign-up. On iPhone and iPad.
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Now on iPad.
The engravings finally have room: Doré's plates fill the screen at the size they were cut for.
• iPad support, portrait and landscape
• A new icon — the wax seal from the game
• Runs on more iPhones, back to iPhone 8
• Small fixes across the app
The developer, Aleksey Arkhipov, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Aleksey Arkhipov
- Size
- 17.4 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
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