Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = E
UDMOPIMPTZJHUWBMWHHWEVOA,WYUDMERZPQWUAPTEMY,UDMTMRQPTHJTTMQWYXWYZJHUWBM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Courage Cryptograms Set 8
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: S = A
UAWUCNKYWJZRYWUMSIC,YANSHMSNDTBDTOJSTZ?SJJVMSA,TYTMSDZRYW,STZVMKWTZMANUSTZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = A
FEDIBFBGTNZZGBF,ROBR'GBYBZXBMRHZNBROBRABKNNBROXGPKNBLHBGREMRONZXJEHBZXEM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = E
VYJRRAE,MQDR,VERJEAKIASOARXJAYOFQERQOCZVEGOFZAYYJUIUFYAVZVE,VERDVGCFZQIAE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = I
AXWTDNTRDDMGTPYRDNEXTWXRJAXTEEUMTWLRYARYLPCPERWRMDTDZHRPYUCPYMUARYLJXTU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: P = T
UIQJUIYPOCQKPQCGPUQO,CVJZCRKIOAUOKPDKBUUJXKUMPZGBDPXGV,YSMKCQGVBPUCPPKZHP.
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 love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 78 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=C C=K D=H E=M F=D G=X H=S I=V J=U K=W L=B M=E N=Q O=L P=O Q=R R=A S=Z T=F U=T V=P W=I X=G Y=N Z=J
- “Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.”— Alexander Pope, 1734, An Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 261 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=K C=H D=I E=Z F=P G=M H=V I=C J=L K=W L=Q M=E N=S O=G P=X Q=J R=Y S=A T=N U=T V=F W=U X=B Y=O Z=D
- “You may as well say, that's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”— William Shakespeare, 1599, King Henry V, Act III. Sc. 7 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=A C=X D=U E=O F=Y G=S H=F I=M J=P K=R L=K M=N N=E O=H P=B Q=Z R=T S=G T=W U=J V=Q W=C X=I Y=V Z=L
- “A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man, and lay him open.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=E B=Z C=H D=L E=N F=I G=Y H=V I=P J=U K=X L=W M=B N=J O=T P=K Q=O R=D S=C T=F U=R V=A W=G X=Q Y=S Z=M
- “We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945, Fourth Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=W B=Y C=U D=N E=P F=Z G=L H=M I=K J=F K=B L=H M=O N=G O=V P=S Q=J R=I S=Q T=A U=R V=X W=C X=E Y=T Z=D
- “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”— William Shakespeare, 1604, Measure for MeasureCipher key: A=L B=G C=A D=H E=X F=Z G=I H=P I=U J=D K=E L=C M=F N=Q O=S P=T Q=R R=K S=Y T=J U=O V=N W=V X=W Y=B Z=M