Puzzle 1
Starter clue: X = N
FUBUDXBTFPKTRDTQYQXPSKIUFZTBDNFUBSBEQKXKXIRZWYKOYQXPTKTDNNZXPQEBXFQYKERDSFQXOB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Character Cryptograms Set 14
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: J = E
GSJDPZGQJENVZGUPJCPRHJGVXSWJRG,PRCJLQJCGJZPRTERJEAYJXGNZEWGSJJWAVZZVCCPRTDVZPJGM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: K = T
GWOAKAMGWOAK,WCXCDKKDOBRQLCSDLKDRKGBZACXDZOEWCEVWC,OLKPDWFBXXDZCMKWAHMWMKBIWKWKAVB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = O
SPBPPILFFHNFMGDWNGUVGTUGDUVGWTZWVGQPXFVPGDUBLFFHNFMCFKWGWTUKNTWPBTPFVFMCVWZUGPPTFBFXR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = T
BLENGVLGNEGWVFPKVFXKPPDJLRIGLNITLDPIWTWVGGYWGKGXKPPDJLRIGLNI,PKZIRKJGEI,WJIXWJBGLKGTIPQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: H = T
HFNIUGTVNWUINQIJRITNOUDUOVNAUHRYMHUYHMQTQWHUOPVQWAUWHPN,JPHUYHMHFNWNKUMYMDQVVHFNAUWHPNI.
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)
- “The honest disposal and right use of the remaining public lands is of fundamental importance.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1905, Fifth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=W B=E C=Z D=O E=M F=T G=K H=V I=G J=Y K=I L=Q M=J N=F O=C P=D Q=A R=P S=R T=S U=H V=X W=B X=N Y=L Z=U
- “The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=B B=Z C=S D=V E=O F=W G=T H=D I=K J=E K=X L=Q M=Y N=F O=P P=I Q=U R=N S=H T=G U=L V=A W=M X=C Y=J Z=R
- “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”— Mark Twain, 1894, Pudd'nhead WilsonCipher key: A=I B=E C=N D=O E=Y F=X G=H H=R I=P J=V K=T L=U M=S N=K O=B P=C Q=L R=F S=G T=Q U=Z V=M W=A X=D Y=J Z=W
- “We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more than books of political science or of private economy.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=G B=N C=P D=H E=Q F=O G=T H=K I=D J=X K=L L=B M=F N=S O=Z P=E Q=U R=Y S=W T=C U=A V=R W=I X=M Y=J Z=V
- “Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.”— Izaak Walton, 1653, The Complete Angler, Part I. Chap. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=D C=M D=P E=U F=G G=T H=Z I=E J=R K=I L=O M=J N=B O=Y P=L Q=F R=V S=C T=S U=Q V=N W=A X=W Y=H Z=K
- “The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=V B=D C=K D=F E=Q F=H G=M H=T I=S J=B K=G L=X M=O N=E O=C P=U Q=A R=Y S=J T=P U=I V=L W=R X=Z Y=N Z=W