Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = L
DYJELQMJCCRBJRDYLMBRZOCYJEQLQMCLMBRCWCLIYJOCZDYE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Alfred Tennyson Cryptograms Set 2
5 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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: D = E
XDI,XTLKGZUDKV,XDIZUDRGKWDKV,DBDKKDENAIJVGXDZUAIJIDR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Z = O
ZAKPVFPVJSDVVACVDZHPAZFLZZBFRXXNPVAPQRTCXLZCXZQRXX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = N
KTAEUVDDCMURL,KTAETADCMAMP,KTAE,CJGGHIMRRY,JWKUYYDCMYAUP!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
SOJJKOPAOMJTBASCEIHZXBAOUOACBTZJKOAHZPHZPPABBUOEBXGKMZPO.
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 (5 solutions)
- “Wearing all that weight of learning lightly like a flower.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam A.H.H., Conclusion. Stanza 10 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=H C=L D=W E=R F=P G=Q H=S I=K J=A K=M L=I M=G N=C O=F P=B Q=N R=T S=V T=D U=J V=X W=Y X=Z Y=E Z=O
- “Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1842, Poems (1842), Locksley Hall. Line 117 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=V C=J D=E E=A F=Z G=O H=L I=N J=G K=R L=B M=D N=P O=X P=F Q=U R=W S=C T=Y U=H V=S W=K X=M Y=Q Z=T
- “Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam A.H.H., LIV. Stanza 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=D C=A D=S E=P F=W G=K H=M I=Z J=R K=Y L=G M=X N=B O=J P=E Q=F R=I S=U T=N U=C V=T W=V X=L Y=Q Z=O
- “Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow!”— Alfred Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam A.H.H., CV. Stanza 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Z C=H D=T E=G F=M G=P H=Y I=B J=A K=R L=D M=E N=J O=Q P=W Q=K R=L S=V T=I U=O V=U W=C X=F Y=S Z=X
- “Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1842, Poems (1842), Locksley Hall. Line 182 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=O C=D D=X E=S F=Y G=C H=I I=P J=T K=H L=Z M=A N=J O=E P=G Q=B R=Q S=L T=W U=V V=K W=M X=F Y=U Z=N