Puzzle 1
Starter clue: I = E
MYYGXCKMHGXTBCXJMWJKTQCGKIXZHMLVGXI,TLZIAIKNBHLPGIKHKBKITCIXTEGXI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Action Cryptograms Set 25
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.
20 pt ciphertext — the size a newspaper puzzle page never gives you. 26 pt ciphertext with wide letter spacing and room to write. 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: B = E
BFBLGJDXSCUSWTBJWOLBKNGXPBKBAXPCEXPBWBUXSTBUXELCTQPSDPSXALCDBBKW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = E
ZJGJCHWPKLZ;ZJVWCNGJCDRTWJGMJG,CYHZJXRRUWSKVDJDZGRKNZDZJHJJHWRBPJY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = N
URERERI,RISIVAYUIPAYRATVITBHIKRERISVUSBBERERAABHVOUISUOOBHBITBAVEB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = A
WXHSXLUWRXWXHKXHHZLARIVKTXITRQZVMOAR,UBKUJKVWILXHKRIOZHZLXOWULZBUL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = R
BQOEOBIPEYKIQYKUWEOSWEGPEKPPZIQEWAJQIQPUPGYAUWDOZYZGYCYGAOSZOIAEP.
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)
- “Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.”— Edmund Waller, 1645, Poems, Panegyric on Cromwell (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=C C=T D=K E=M F=Z G=U H=O I=E J=H K=R L=N M=I N=Y O=W P=Q Q=P R=J S=X T=A U=B V=F W=G X=S Y=L Z=D
- “Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First Series, Spiritual Laws (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=E C=O D=C E=F F=V G=Y H=L I=J J=A K=D L=R M=X N=B O=U P=H Q=W R=Q S=I T=M U=N V=G W=S X=T Y=Z Z=K
- “He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men.”— William Shakespeare, 1599, Julius Caesar, Act I. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=F C=A D=T E=Y F=P G=R H=D I=W J=E K=U L=C M=V N=G O=X P=M Q=J R=O S=Q T=B U=K V=I W=S X=L Y=N Z=H
- “I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.”— Terence, 163 BC, Heautontimoroumenos (Heauton Timorumenos), Act I. Sc. 1, 25. (77) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=E C=J D=V E=M F=U G=P H=R I=N J=B K=S L=K M=Z N=W O=F P=G Q=Y R=A S=D T=C U=I V=O W=X X=Q Y=H Z=L
- “Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.”— Terence, 163 BC, Heautontimoroumenos (Heauton Timorumenos), Act IV. Sc. 1, 53. (666) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=F C=K D=G E=Q F=V G=J H=N I=S J=R K=C L=T M=L N=Z O=D P=X Q=W R=E S=Y T=H U=I V=U W=M X=A Y=P Z=O
- “Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=U B=C C=V D=F E=R F=B G=D H=X I=T J=G K=S L=W M=Q N=Y O=A P=E Q=H R=J S=L T=P U=M V=K W=O X=Z Y=I Z=N