Puzzle 1
Starter clue: I = L
FTLHNIIDAISRQHHFWAZUFT,NZYNIINDSJAQHUWNKA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Large Print Cryptograms Set 8
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: I = S
WEEEFYDRVMROIQKBJMPGHIJVTTRNJOMIQKWVYPRI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Z = T
FSXGAMVASZPXPUSVAJGXZZXMZPUSZCFFSZPXMFFK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: V = E
UXJTWMGPGWLCRJVVWUVRLMVVLRGCXRVVYPUMTEBU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = S
KZJGRFWWQIDZANGSRWRZDKQRPQKZTIFIWJIDDZDD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = T
QSQDNNPKVQEYSTLKEVDWVWPXYFQCFLEYSIDTELKS.
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)
- “Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”— John Dryden, 1694, To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, Epistle to Congreve. Line 19 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=Q C=X D=B E=K F=T G=F H=S I=L J=V K=C L=U M=Y N=A O=P P=Z Q=I R=W S=O T=H U=G V=M W=R X=J Y=D Z=N
- “Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=G B=F C=V D=K E=L F=U G=O H=M I=S J=A K=Y L=J M=T N=P O=R P=H Q=B R=E S=X T=D U=W V=N W=I X=Z Y=C Z=Q
- “One bird in the hand is better than two on the roof.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=I B=L C=W D=K E=V F=O G=B H=G I=U J=S K=F L=C M=R N=Q O=Z P=H Q=Y R=P S=N T=X U=A V=D W=M X=E Y=J Z=T
- “Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=J B=G C=L D=F E=U F=Z G=I H=K I=V J=P K=M L=A M=R N=D O=X P=T Q=W R=S S=B T=O U=H V=E W=C X=Y Y=N Z=Q
- “We paint those qualities which we do not possess.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=Q B=X C=Y D=S E=R F=N G=A H=Z I=O J=P K=W L=M M=J N=U O=G P=C Q=H R=I S=L T=D U=F V=B W=T X=V Y=K Z=E
- “We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Twelfth Night, Act I. Sc. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=Z C=Y D=I E=T F=O G=Q H=B I=P J=F K=R L=U M=G N=L O=V P=D Q=W R=K S=E T=C U=M V=A W=N X=S Y=H Z=J