Enigma Machine

Have you ever played Resident Evil? Well, in that game... and all it's sequels... there's puzzles. The best ones are in RE2, well the weirdest ones at least.

In RE2 there was this police station where it was explained to the player that the police chief was this eccentric art collector. Because of this, for some reason, he had all these puzzles and traps all around the precinct. If you wanted to go to the roof, you didn't just go to the roof. You would turn the bust of Athena clockwise to open a drawer with a lighter in it, then light a fire in the fireplace which burned a hole in this painting above it, which held a jewel that you placed in another bust which opened a door to an office with a cipher key which opened the roof. I think you get the picture. Well, as stupid as the premise was, it made for a really fun game. It also got me into puzzles and mind games.

It was in that interest that I found this site. It's a flash version of the WWII Enigma Machine.

Check it out here.

You can create a code and decipher one as well. This gives you the easy ability to send a coded message to a friend who's in on the game.

So if you used rotors I,II and III and set the start position to B,E,N... you could decipher this message.

SGARLERLFPSOSMWIHBRDXOASYQQWEVMUQBVAYPBIISGTLSYLLYXXCMUCQYIQLEOCFKDDSHNJKHVX

Good stuff!