Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = I
DKHTKFQCGKFEHNRRNF-QBFQB,CFU,CQSTBEDBCSBQSNFALCDB,KFTKQQKRMAKHKSLQVXAKRB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Alfred Tennyson Cryptograms Set 4
4 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: H = E
QHBK-FHZHFHIDH,QHBK-LICEBHXPH,QHBK-DCIVFCB,-VWHQHVWFHHYBCIHBHYXBAKHVCQCZHFHAPINCEHF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = E
GWABLVXWXPBNOIZBV,AOCZ,MWIXPBUFOGQUOX,VLNPX,POHMFWYV;GWABLVXWXPBNOIZBV,AOCZ,LOAPBIBOXXPBNOXBOFWVB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: L = E
TMTYMKLGTMMGLWTVMATMKTEMKLGPMLMKJMUQJEHUQATGGFJILMKLFPYTBFPML,JEHLDLWATHLETENYGCAGQYTGLEBLJGG.
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 (4 solutions)
- “Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1852, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=E C=A D=R E=G F=N G=V H=C I=Z J=W K=I L=Y M=P N=O O=K P=J Q=S R=M S=T T=H U=D V=U W=F X=B Y=Q Z=X
- “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, - These three alone lead life to sovereign power.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1833, Poems (1832), OEnone (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=L C=O D=C E=W F=R G=Z H=E I=N J=U K=F L=K M=B N=P O=Q P=G Q=S R=X S=Y T=J U=M V=T W=H X=D Y=A Z=V
- “Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown; Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1855, Maud, Part I. XXII. Stanza 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=E C=U D=X E=P F=L G=C H=S I=R J=Q K=Z L=I M=F N=G O=A P=H Q=K R=V S=Y T=J U=B V=N W=O X=T Y=W Z=D
- “It is the little rift within the lute that by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1859, Idylls of the King, Merlin and Vivien (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=C C=O D=V E=N F=M G=L H=D I=K J=A K=H L=E M=T N=G O=X P=U Q=Y R=Z S=Q T=I U=B V=F W=R X=J Y=S Z=P