Puzzle 1
Starter clue: S = T
FSFTIROAPMTFPJSNYPOJFSFOMCSAMLSNYPONJJPOS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Benjamin Disraeli Cryptograms Set 1
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: C = A
UEVHPFXCTKVDNMZ;ACDPEENCXHZVIIKM;EKNCIMCZMIZMH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = N
BUIHNLTEBFDELCIELTHKLHFDNBHITCBHDJLWROXIUTDNO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Y = O
SBYJYPXLWYAJQSHHYOAREYZRUSRGUXHURULQKYAYRSJRLZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = S
ERRERROYEZOQYNERYSWSXUNEYBSTZNSNORZQXIQGZNSKQXAT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: U = E
CAWDUZEUKHUZAEZAKCAWDUZEUKPUCEYDUZDUNLUNBMWCGCPCFUDEMXHZA.
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)
- “It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1860, Speech, Jan. 24, 1860 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=F C=L D=G E=P F=I G=Q H=Y I=M J=R K=Z L=N M=A N=O O=C P=E Q=X R=U S=T T=S U=J V=D W=K X=W Y=B Z=V
- “Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1844, Coningsby, Book III. Chap. I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=C C=A D=N E=O F=I G=V H=T I=G J=X K=L L=J M=E N=D O=P P=H Q=W R=Q S=Z T=B U=Y V=U W=F X=S Y=K Z=R
- “A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1845, Speech, March 17, 1845 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=A C=G D=I E=V F=T G=X H=N I=O J=Z K=M L=E M=B N=S O=Y P=Q Q=U R=H S=J T=R U=C V=W W=D X=P Y=K Z=F
- “Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1871, Speech, July 28, 1871 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=P C=M D=J E=F F=B G=W H=C I=Z J=L K=D L=E M=Q N=V O=U P=G Q=Y R=T S=A T=K U=H V=X W=S X=I Y=O Z=R
- “Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1865, Speech, May, 1865 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=G C=M D=P E=A F=K G=F H=B I=Y J=X K=W L=Z M=U N=H O=I P=Q Q=O R=S S=E T=D U=C V=J W=V X=R Y=N Z=T
- “Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1872, Speech, April 3, 1872 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=W C=I D=R E=S F=Z G=V H=M I=G J=K K=D L=H M=O N=T O=P P=L Q=J R=X S=Y T=B U=E V=Q W=C X=F Y=U Z=A