iPhone app Puzzle Sidekick

Puzzle Sidekick is a set of tools, reference material, and links for anyone who plays The Game, solves puzzle hunts, 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.

*NOTE* This application is for iOS 7 only.
If you are stuck on an earlier version of iOS, you can still use the ARG Tools app.

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

Baudot Code

Braille

Fingerspelling

Letters to numbers (1.26) and ASCII

Nautical Flags

Moon Alphabet

Morse Code (two representations)

Myst Dni Glyphs

Phonetic alphabet

Pigpen Cipher (two representations)

Roman Numerals

Semaphore (two representations)

Tools and Reference

Telephone digits to letters (2=ABC, 3=DEF, etc.), optionally constrained by dictionary words.
228 becomes ACT, BAT, and CAT

A red/green/blue color mixer with hex and decimal values

A list of common English words, letters, letter pairs

Billiard ball colors

Books of the Bible

Countdown timer prediction

Dart board scoring

Dewey Decimal System

ISO Country Codes

Mathematical Constants, Prime Numbers

Music Notes and their Frequencies

Password Generator

Periodic Table

Planets

Resistor Color Codes

Ring Sizes

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

Small enough to be downloadable over the air so you can quickly obtain it without WiFi access

Free-as-in-beer!,

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