ARG Tools, the iPhone app that gives you puzzle-solving tools and reference in your pocket just got a dictionary. You may already know of ARG Tools, but in case you haven’t, it’s an iPhone app that provides a set of tools, reference material, and links for anyone who plays Alternate Reality Games, participates in transmedia storytelling, or solves puzzle trails and hunts. The tools range from decoder-ring style codebreaking to countdown timer prediction. The reference material includes word frequency, morse code, semaphore, and more.
The key feature added to 2.0 is a dictionary engine that lets you search for words through pattern matching. This is useful for crosswords and cryptograms. Need a five letter word starting with NI? Punch in “NI???” and see results like NINJA and NINES. Version 2.0 also gives you a red/green/blue color mixer in hex and decimal, several alternate views of code sheets (Morse code as a tree, pigpen as a grid, semaphore as geometric vectors).
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In addition to this, you continue to get all the existing great features:
- Encoding/Decoding:
- ROT-N (from 1 to 26, including ROT-13)
- BASE64
- Vigenere / Beaufort
- Transposition
- Substitution
- Character Encodings
- Braille
- Fingerspelling
- Letters to numbers (1..26) and ASCII
- Nautical Flags
- Moon Alphabet
- Morse code
- Myst D’ni Glyphs
- Phonetic alphabet
- Pigpen Cipher
- Roman Numerals
- Semaphore
- Tools and Reference
- A list of common English words, letters, letter pairs
- Countdown timer prediction
- Dewey Decimal System
- ISO Country Codes
- Mathematical Constants, Prime Numbers
- Music Notes and their Frequencies
- Periodic Table
- Resistor Color Codes
- Zodiac, Chinese Zodiac
- Quick access to Google, Wikipedia, Sudoku Step-Solving, Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
The design goals of this application continue to be:
- Easy to use in the field
- Downloadable over the air so you can quickly obtain it without computer access
- Free-as-in-beer!
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Did I mention it’s free? Go find it on the app store!
