Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = E
HGYBSRIYNVIHNNRWDHYWYNFIEDWZZOWQWVQZWAWTIGTNRWOUZTWYNYNICCWVWT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Courage Cryptograms Set 7
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: Z = E
XZIVJEETIVR-EJDTKZM,IHMGIHEZZKTJHDEOHMZVDVPOHM,IHMCOGTCPVZJHKTZEWJZE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: K = E
QVKDJWLQEVKDJEKSQWZLKJEVZRMXYWZYK,JRHQKKCQEXHJSKEVKKWKCKREQEXQESZYK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: N = H
YNJGXNIIQHIE,APYNNPGGSYXNJQPUNPGNSUR,ANPGYQPUOSQIDRYIHJSZNPGXIDZSOJDL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = E
VYGAKLZAKGQA:MLKBTMWFYMMAAVYXTA;YPYQXKCBTFBMAAVETKULEK,WGLCEKCLKBAGAZJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: F = E
TFHBLVFHNFEZPUVVPFCZUFQEHMFDGUVIPFDDMBRZECFVIEHVIFXYBPEZCFTUDLBZVRHFD.
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)
- “In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.”— Edmund Burke, 1770, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, Vol. I. p. 516 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=U C=G D=W E=Y F=M G=N H=I I=A J=K K=J L=V M=Z N=T O=B P=F Q=P R=H S=C T=D U=O V=R W=E X=Q Y=S Z=L
- “Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III. Chap. VI (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=X C=M D=G E=S F=Z G=C H=N I=A J=I K=T L=W M=D N=Q O=U P=O Q=Y R=P S=V T=H U=J V=R W=K X=F Y=L Z=E
- “She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.”— Lord Byron, 1814, The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=P C=M D=W E=T F=Q G=B H=D I=V J=A K=E L=K M=G N=U O=Z P=Y Q=S R=N S=R T=J U=C V=H W=L X=O Y=F Z=I
- “The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.”— Robert Blair, 1743, The Grave, Part I. Line 58 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=Q C=K D=U E=Y F=J G=S H=B I=O J=E K=F L=P M=V N=H O=G P=I Q=L R=D S=A T=M U=N V=X W=Z X=C Y=T Z=R
- “Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”— George Herbert, 1633, The Temple, The Church Porch (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=H C=W D=V E=S F=C G=R H=K I=Q J=Y K=T L=O M=N N=X O=P P=F Q=U R=J S=Z T=I U=M V=D W=G X=L Y=A Z=B
- “Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=J B=O C=G D=S E=A F=E G=W H=N I=H J=P K=Z L=F M=C N=B O=K P=L Q=V R=U S=Q T=M U=I V=T W=X X=Y Y=D Z=R