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Definition: Restore the table of correspondences between symbols and original characters. Conditional example: Read a note with a replaced alphabet. Terms: cryptogram; cryptogram. <a id=\"variant-substitution-cipher\"></a>\n- Rearrangement cipher. Definition: Display the reading order of characters or blocks. Conditional example: Read text by rearranged columns. <a id=\"variant-transposition-cipher\"></a>\n- Decryption by key. Definition: Apply the found key to a table, book or encoding algorithm. Conditional example: Retrieve letters by page and line numbers. Terms: book cipher. <a id=\"variant-keyed-decoding\"></a>\n- Study of unknown writing. Definition: Deduce the meaning of signs from repetition, context and parallel messages. Conditional example: Read the signs of a fictitious language. <a id=\"variant-symbol-system\"></a>\n- Grammar output. Definition: Identify the rules of utterance structure and apply them to new examples. Conditional example: Compose a valid phrase in an artificial language. <a id=\"variant-grammar-inference\"></a>\n- Rebus. Definition: Convert pictures, arrangement and conditional operations into a word or phrase. Conditional Example: Read an expression from a picture and letters removed. <a id=\"variant-rebus\"></a>\n- A game of meanings. Definition: Find an answer that simultaneously satisfies different meanings or definitions. Conditional example: Choose a word with two desired meanings. <a id=\"variant-double-definition\"></a>\n- Composite word clue. Definition: Divide the hint into a definition and an instruction to convert a word. Conditional example: Get an answer through an anagram of the specified fragment. Terms: cryptic crossword. <a id=\"variant-cryptic-clue\"></a>\n- Semantic analogy. Definition: Restore the relationship between concepts and transfer it to another pair. Conditional example: Select the fourth word according to the type of connection. <a id=\"variant-analogy\"></a>\n- Rethinking the condition. Definition: Find a compatible interpretation by revising an implicit assumption. Conditional example: Explain a situation by understanding one of the words differently. Terms: lateral thinking; Danetka. <a id=\"variant-lateral-riddle\"></a>\n- General semantic mediator. Definition: Find a concept that connects several different clues. Conditional example: Choose a word that forms expressions with three others. <a id=\"variant-association-link\"></a>"},{"id":"context","title":"Context and limits","body":"A wide catalog of mechanics for digital puzzles, paper logic problems and physical puzzles. 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Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.","caption":"Sketches and symbols are matched in a glossary","alt":"Sketches and symbols are matched in a glossary","markers":[{"x":83,"y":47,"label":"Symbols whose meanings must be tested"},{"x":28,"y":36,"label":"The sketch provides interpretive context"}]},"tips":["Let symbol meanings be tested in several independent contexts."],"examples":[{"title":"Chants of Sennaar","url":"https://store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/"}]}},"endsAt":null,"provenance":"Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on 2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and editorial review.","license":"CC-BY-4.0","codeLicense":"MIT","attribution":"gamemechanics.pro contributors","catalogKey":"catalog/puzzle"}}