Puzzle 1
Starter clue: V = E
QXZVQRJQZRTENTSZQXVUIRGVNTSZQXVTEGQKUCXOTCVRGVRGUCXDVETZV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Courage Cryptograms Set 6
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: R = E
UTRKXPENGWLPXKCWXMON,UTOUKPRCWFOYRVPRHKTRPRROLERWNOPRCXUVRPDT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = O
J,BZRHACSYRFCYJ!BZRHACSARUYJ!BZRHACSYRGTUYJ,SJHNSJBGSIBZRHHZCUYJ!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: N = H
NTQNHQNLEZVQNTNHOZETLYQNTYMKPOR-GHOMDOVQNTMPVWLYCDMOPORNPUVTEY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = E
DQCJMNECLNAHNMECPKZDQGPIKMDZAC,NAUCECMWLNAGPDQCPKAKIQGPKSASKMYP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: L = E
TEVZUQLGZGWADZVCILGDSRLFTHIELSIU,ETIVZQQVLKZQADLIUDSRLWILSQLSIU.
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)
- “A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860, The Conduct of Life, CultureCipher key: A=X B=J C=N D=B E=F F=K G=H H=L I=S J=P K=V L=W M=Q N=C O=D P=Z Q=A R=T S=U T=O U=I V=E W=Y X=G Y=M Z=R
- “The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.”— William Shakespeare, 1593, King Richard III, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=V C=N D=C E=L F=M G=I H=Y I=F J=Q K=W L=G M=B N=D O=A P=R Q=X R=E S=J T=H U=T V=P W=S X=O Y=K Z=U
- “O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!”— William Shakespeare, 1599, Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=W C=E D=S E=B F=R G=I H=T I=G J=O K=Z L=X M=F N=K O=V P=U Q=C R=A S=N T=L U=Y V=J W=Q X=P Y=D Z=H
- “He that holds the handle of the frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself.”— French proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=J B=Z C=B D=U E=L F=X G=P H=A I=W J=Q K=Y L=O M=R N=H O=N P=I Q=T R=G S=V T=E U=M V=S W=K X=C Y=F Z=D
- “The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book I. Chap. IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=P C=E D=T E=V F=X G=I H=C I=F J=B K=O L=M M=R N=A O=G P=S Q=H R=Z S=W T=Q U=D V=J W=Y X=L Y=K Z=U
- “Of listening children have your fears, for little pitchers have great ears.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=C B=K C=D D=H E=F F=Y G=N H=U I=R J=X K=P L=E M=J N=Q O=B P=Z Q=T R=V S=A T=O U=S V=L W=G X=W Y=M Z=I