Puzzle 1
Starter clue: S = E
OGSARIWMWOWSKAFLDFDCMRLSECIROWFBGRXSHSSBXRKOMZSBMRLQSERBEVFLSQSBSLRMMZEWAACKSE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Benjamin Harrison Cryptograms Set 3
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: S = E
JGSYLJEJFFDSERMYJFSISHLJSSZDQRHSPJGSHFMPJVJLJVFMVMVJPSMJVQSJERMYJGSKGFBSHFYSFWBRKPSMRHJSYLMYSQVJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: L = E
SHXLNNHSSLLUNPHGLNHBWFLSPXDJCIWLNNLUBIHSHBWILHIXLVNPOJN,POVPSHEHWPODLSUHWKVBNLKVSGLIWHCHPLUGDXVEXLNNSLNN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = T
CDVANENKVANLSVSOVXVYZXZSABADJCCFZELDBJMDZXVKRVBHZKLSAZXMFVAZAUZMLMJFVANLS,HZVFAU,VSOXLDVFBADZSCAULELJDKLJSADR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: U = T
BLSLZNUNAFZSFGUPAFBZLBVSQGMQWFOCFBUFVWFUUDWWESWBMWLXSQRZNADLBLGLGRPGQOWFBONBOWAWBUYWUDLOMTNUDLQUSGLUWMUFBOXFUFZONMFXXWAUNLBNBNUMLTBRLOP.
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)
- “The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1889, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=F B=N C=U D=P E=D F=O G=H H=B I=C J=Z K=S L=R M=L N=X O=T P=J Q=G R=A S=E T=K U=W V=M W=I X=V Y=Q Z=Y
- “The duty to obey and to execute embraces the Constitution in its entirety and the whole code of laws enacted under it.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1889, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=P B=L C=J D=B E=Y F=O G=H H=C I=X J=T K=W L=U M=N N=Z O=V P=S Q=R R=A S=E T=G U=Q V=I W=F X=K Y=D Z=M
- “No lesson needs to be so urgently impressed upon our people as this, that no worthy end or cause can be promoted by lawlessness.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1892, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Q B=U C=M D=Y E=W F=G G=B H=O I=P J=I K=C L=E M=J N=S O=H P=T Q=K R=V S=N T=F U=D V=A W=R X=L Y=Z Z=X
- “Gratification and amazement struggle for supremacy as we contemplate the population, wealth, and moral strength of our country.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1891, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=T B=S C=G D=R E=F F=L G=Q H=W I=X J=U K=C L=O M=P N=I O=D P=B Q=J R=Y S=N T=K U=H V=A W=V X=M Y=Z Z=E
- “No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent methods without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1889, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=C B=N C=V D=H E=X F=A G=R H=J I=K J=Z K=Q L=O M=S N=I O=D P=Y Q=U R=B S=P T=W U=T V=G W=E X=F Y=M Z=L