Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = E
GMPRQPHKKDWLSWMKNSWHVLRSLNGQKMPLWQ.LRSLNGQKMPLWQMSWKDWLSWMKNSWQHVGWP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Benjamin Disraeli 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: Q = N
JC.VCBJIEQLMWFEWNEQRYEWZBFKGCERQGCMQOB;KGCZBZMFGQISGQBEFBM,MQFNZMNLMWLCGQR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Z = O
YAPCDYAZFQAZUJPCMUCGZDYAKUZQVGZZMUKUCTRZUYCUGCECUCRZYAPFQAZYCTMUCGZDYAPFZQVHAKTEFPV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: E = T
EZSLFYSHTGSBBUACEHAMPHFCZEEHEZSNHJEHTTUPJEXUAUJESPUXXHPEQBTQXS,-QDFQBUERHTJFWWSJJGZUWZGHFBLQBXHJEJSSXEHUAWBFLSQBBHEZSPJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: H = E
TJHXHZY...YDZYZBBXISHJTCZYJOCY;YDZYSHZJHZGGIOAYZFBHWIJTYCHQHJGTCH;YDZYWJINYDHXHIXBHZAKWIJYDHXHIXBHZBBCXJTAVC,ZAKZBBNOCYHQTCY.
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)
- “Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1826, Vivian Grey, Book VI. Chap. VII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=Q C=P D=H E=V F=G G=M H=O I=K J=D K=T L=C M=A N=U O=W P=N Q=S R=I S=R T=Y U=X V=F W=E X=L Y=J Z=B
- “Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1845, Sybil, Book IV. Chap. V (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=E C=R D=X E=I F=D G=O H=Z I=L J=M K=F L=W M=A N=T O=C P=V Q=N R=G S=Y T=B U=Q V=K W=S X=J Y=U Z=H
- “The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1870, Speech, Nov. 19, 1870 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=Y C=A D=U E=D F=R G=B H=C I=F J=P K=I L=G M=K N=X O=J P=E Q=W R=M S=Q T=L U=S V=N W=V X=Z Y=T Z=O
- “The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, - a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1845, Sybil, Book I. Chap. III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=L C=G D=Q E=T F=U G=W H=O I=J J=S K=Z L=D M=B N=P O=V P=R Q=A R=Y S=E T=F U=I V=X W=C X=M Y=K Z=H
- “I repeat . . . that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1826, Vivian Grey, Book VI. Chap. VII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=L C=S D=H E=Y F=B G=C H=E I=O J=R K=D L=K M=J N=M O=U P=Z Q=X R=Q S=W T=I U=V V=G W=F X=P Y=T Z=A