Puzzle 1
Starter clue: L = E
KMKIDHZRLQEBUAHL'URZHYLVZHUBLKIARBWLUBZQD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Large Print Cryptograms Set 1
6 cryptograms to solve with a pencil. Each letter of the quote has been swapped for another letter, and the same swap holds all the way through.
26 pt ciphertext with wide letter spacing and room to write. 34 pt ciphertext — readable across the table, one or two puzzles a page. Both sizes print on US Letter with the answer key on its own page.
Printing this web page instead? Press Ctrl+P (⌘+P on a Mac). The navigation and buttons drop away, and the answer key prints on its own page — open it below first if you want it included.
The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: D = T
UDUKPUKADBDYVSIUVIYLKDCSIAKDBEBBRCIIBYSD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Q = O
LYQHQIPUQC,PIIPUQC;LYQEXQKIPUQC,RINWIKIPUQC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = A
IZMVIYUNIZEBJMTENCUBQHCQNZIEIEENZNQOYMIP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = E
VJBJUNWBKIWUNJPUGSDKGSVUJUNDZJBEDMPDBZDE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = O
CWJKTWJFIEWVWDRGDL-VLGGSWLRGDLK,OWVVWDOGFY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Solver's cheat sheet
- Most common letters
- E T A O I N S H R D L U
- Most common 1-letter words
- A I
- Most common 2-letter words
- OF TO IN IT IS BE AS AT SO WE HE BY OR ON DO IF ME MY UP AN GO NO US AM
- Most common 3-letter words
- THE AND FOR ARE BUT NOT YOU ALL ANY CAN HER WAS ONE OUR OUT DAY GET HAS HIM HIS HOW MAN NEW NOW OLD SEE TWO WAY WHO BOY DID ITS LET PUT SAY SHE TOO USE
- Common double letters
- LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC
- Common word endings
- -ING -ION -ENT -TION -LY -ED -ER -EST
- After an apostrophe
- T (don't) S (it's) RE (we're) VE (I've) LL (we'll) D (I'd)
Want this on its own sheet? Print the letter frequency chart.
Show the answer key (6 solutions)
- “A bad knife cuts one's finger instead of the stick.”— Portuguese proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=O B=T C=J D=K E=U F=V G=Y H=N I=D J=P K=A L=E M=B N=X O=Q P=M Q=C R=F S=W T=L U=S V=R W=H X=Z Y=G Z=I
- “It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=E B=O C=A D=T E=G F=K G=V H=Y I=C J=L K=S L=M M=Z N=Q O=J P=W Q=B R=D S=N T=P U=I V=R W=X X=H Y=U Z=F
- “Who goes not, sees not; who proves not, believes not.”— Italian proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=X B=Q C=T D=U E=P F=Y G=K H=G I=E J=F K=V L=W M=Z N=L O=D P=S Q=O R=B S=J T=M U=N V=A W=I X=R Y=H Z=C
- “A royal heart is often hid under a tattered cloak.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=W B=I C=N D=G E=T F=Q G=V H=U I=A J=S K=X L=J M=O N=E O=C P=K Q=D R=Z S=B T=F U=H V=Y W=P X=M Y=L Z=R
- “Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=X B=N C=L D=E E=S F=J G=A H=Z I=W J=O K=G L=P M=Q N=H O=V P=U Q=M R=Y S=R T=B U=T V=D W=I X=K Y=F Z=C
- “You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm.”— Publilius Syrus, 42 BC, Sententiae (Maxims), 674 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=J C=Y D=A E=G F=L G=E H=X I=D J=U K=S L=R M=I N=Z O=N P=W Q=V R=P S=F T=H U=B V=T W=O X=C Y=M Z=Q