Free printable cryptograms

Cryptogram puzzles built for paper: big type, a blank line under every letter, and the answer key on its own page. Download the PDF or print this site straight from your browser. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to install.

1828 printable sets so far, sorted by difficulty, by author and by subject. Every quote is in the public domain and every answer page names the year and the source we verified it from — if we could not verify an attribution, we did not print it.

By difficulty

Start easy and work up. Difficulty is scored on letter variety, word length and how many common short words a quote gives you.

• Easy

  81 sets · 484 puzzles

• Medium

  243 sets · 1453 puzzles

• Hard

  162 sets · 969 puzzles

• Expert

  81 sets · 484 puzzles

By author

One writer per sheet — handy for a classroom, a book club or a themed afternoon at a senior center.

• Mark Twain

  11 sets · 64 puzzles

• Benjamin Franklin

  3 sets · 15 puzzles

• Shakespeare

  48 sets · 285 puzzles

• Oscar Wilde

  12 sets · 72 puzzles

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  31 sets · 183 puzzles

• Henry David Thoreau

  19 sets · 113 puzzles

• Abraham Cowley

  One sheet · 7 puzzles

• Abraham Lincoln

  5 sets · 30 puzzles

• Aesop

  8 sets · 47 puzzles

• Alexander Pope

  12 sets · 68 puzzles

• Alfred Tennyson

  4 sets · 19 puzzles

• Andrew Jackson

  3 sets · 14 puzzles

• Benjamin Disraeli

  2 sets · 11 puzzles

• Benjamin Harrison

  3 sets · 15 puzzles

• Calvin Coolidge

  10 sets · 57 puzzles

• Confucius

  7 sets · 39 puzzles

• Daniel Webster

  2 sets · 12 puzzles

• Danish proverb

  33 sets · 195 puzzles

• Dutch proverb

  12 sets · 68 puzzles

• Edmund Burke

  3 sets · 16 puzzles

• Edward Young

  3 sets · 13 puzzles

• English proverb

  6 sets · 35 puzzles

• Epictetus

  2 sets · 8 puzzles

• Francis Bacon

  9 sets · 49 puzzles

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  9 sets · 50 puzzles

• Francois Rabelais

  One sheet · 7 puzzles

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  8 sets · 46 puzzles

• French proverb

  17 sets · 100 puzzles

• George Chapman

  One sheet · 6 puzzles

• George Eliot

  3 sets · 13 puzzles

• George Herbert

  One sheet · 7 puzzles

• George Washington

  2 sets · 9 puzzles

• German proverb

  23 sets · 138 puzzles

• Grover Cleveland

  2 sets · 11 puzzles

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  One sheet · 7 puzzles

• Herbert Hoover

  5 sets · 25 puzzles

• Italian proverb

  22 sets · 128 puzzles

• Izaak Walton

  2 sets · 8 puzzles

• James K. Polk

  5 sets · 28 puzzles

• James Monroe

  2 sets · 10 puzzles

• James Russell Lowell

  4 sets · 22 puzzles

• Jane Austen

  8 sets · 46 puzzles

• John Dryden

  3 sets · 13 puzzles

• John Milton

  10 sets · 57 puzzles

• Jonathan Swift

  3 sets · 13 puzzles

• Laozi

  4 sets · 21 puzzles

• Lord Byron

  5 sets · 25 puzzles

• Marcus Aurelius

  19 sets · 110 puzzles

• Michel de Montaigne

  6 sets · 34 puzzles

• Miguel de Cervantes

  6 sets · 34 puzzles

• Oliver Goldsmith

  4 sets · 23 puzzles

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

  2 sets · 8 puzzles

• Phaedrus

  2 sets · 8 puzzles

• Plautus

  One sheet · 6 puzzles

• Pliny the Elder

  2 sets · 8 puzzles

• Portuguese proverb

  11 sets · 64 puzzles

• Publilius Syrus

  8 sets · 44 puzzles

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  2 sets · 10 puzzles

• Robert Burton

  2 sets · 11 puzzles

• Robert Louis Stevenson

  11 sets · 64 puzzles

• Rutherford B. Hayes

  One sheet · 6 puzzles

• Samuel Butler

  3 sets · 14 puzzles

• Samuel Johnson

  9 sets · 49 puzzles

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  2 sets · 12 puzzles

• Sir Walter Scott

  3 sets · 17 puzzles

• Spanish proverb

  23 sets · 135 puzzles

• Sun Tzu

  2 sets · 10 puzzles

• Sydney Smith

  2 sets · 11 puzzles

• Terence

  4 sets · 20 puzzles

• Theodore Roosevelt

  13 sets · 76 puzzles

• Thomas Babington Macaulay

  2 sets · 9 puzzles

• Thomas Carlyle

  2 sets · 10 puzzles

• Thomas Jefferson

  2 sets · 12 puzzles

• Ulysses S. Grant

  3 sets · 17 puzzles

• Warren G. Harding

  2 sets · 12 puzzles

• William Cowper

  4 sets · 24 puzzles

• William McKinley

  4 sets · 19 puzzles

• William Wordsworth

  7 sets · 38 puzzles

• Woodrow Wilson

  4 sets · 23 puzzles

By subject

Quotes grouped by what they are about.

• Wisdom

  255 sets · 1527 puzzles

• Humor

  4 sets · 23 puzzles

• Action

  53 sets · 315 puzzles

• Perseverance

  28 sets · 168 puzzles

• Courage

  13 sets · 75 puzzles

• Character

  21 sets · 123 puzzles

• Hope

  22 sets · 127 puzzles

• Friendship

  39 sets · 234 puzzles

• Truth

  30 sets · 180 puzzles

• Learning

  33 sets · 193 puzzles

• Work

  17 sets · 97 puzzles

• Time

  37 sets · 217 puzzles

• Nature

  64 sets · 381 puzzles

• Simplicity

  37 sets · 220 puzzles

• Money

  19 sets · 110 puzzles

• Winter

  23 sets · 137 puzzles

How these sheets are built

Each set uses its own cipher key, so a quote you have already met on the daily puzzle comes back as a completely different-looking puzzle here. Every sheet gives you a starter clue, an A–Z decoder strip under each puzzle, and a one-page cheat sheet of letter frequencies. Answers never share a page with a puzzle.