How does scoring work in Cryptograms?

[fbas]

I seem to get more points by being in the middle of the bell curve than being ahead of it. Of course it's impossible to make apples-to-apples comparisons between different puzzles.

How does scoring work in the cryptograms games?

[LLapp]

Hi fbas, and welcome! There was a thread recently with a bunch of "newbie" questions, including that one. Here's a link to the answer I posted there:

https://www.cryptograms.org/forum/showpost.php?p=8382&postcount=6

The quote-difficulty rankings were adjusted a couple of years ago, so you may see some comments about that on some of the quote solution pages.



Happy solving,

Lisa