Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = T
AMACSIUAOIMMVQIABIBVWWVYTLMXBSYPUFXQUJJSMMSAY,MVCLDDUFSYTMVTSFUQAMICVJUWYAMX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Courage Cryptograms Set 9
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: H = A
SXQHUXHZIXHELHPDFIKANXLWHQXHRKTMWHPRSXLMWEHFFIKHJQEQXLSYEQIXHNYWLHPRJKMIHZX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: L = O
HWYPCYNKTILOFLOHJCLQPWYFEILOPLAGWFQ,YCJMWPWYHMYINTWYPKCBYHNLHWNQILONELOHJHLNWKQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: C = A
RGYHCUWVMWB,DZWGZAMQBCGRXZMFK,LMWCGAMQBCGRKCVH;CDKRKCVHCFRWWFHWBHAZVHCGROVZXZFKHV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = A
RCNDOEQMWN,TQANWCKPDEA;NWCKP,CDWHPANBCHDEA;NBCH,CMAXEQIXNGCKPDEA,REKZMPCYQKPOXPDNZMCHDEA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = T
HSUIHBSQERQIPUEMQENUCEJVPRDBVSIVPYYQIEVIEBI;VPYVYZBSIQERQIPUEMQENUCEAUJDUSEIVPYNUHBI.
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)
- “It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=I B=C C=S D=F E=J F=R G=P H=K I=H J=L K=Q L=U M=T N=B O=G P=V Q=W R=Z S=A T=D U=E V=O W=M X=Y Y=N Z=X
- “We have a great many problems ahead of us and we must approach them with realism and courage.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=B B=Q C=J D=Y E=T F=P G=X H=A I=R J=C K=O L=M M=U N=L O=Z P=N Q=H R=D S=W T=F U=V V=K W=S X=E Y=I Z=G
- “Learn as if you could not reach your object, and were always fearing also lest you should lose it.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=B B=G C=N D=Z E=H F=C G=J H=L I=Y J=D K=I L=O M=W N=S O=U P=R Q=T R=P S=X T=F U=M V=Q W=E X=V Y=A Z=K
- “I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1588, Essays, Book III, Chap II. Of Repentance (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=H C=A D=N E=Y F=L G=S H=E I=F J=Z K=D L=B M=U N=V O=G P=J Q=C R=I S=X T=Q U=K V=R W=T X=W Y=P Z=O
- “Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.”— Sir Walter Raleigh, 1655, Poems, Fain Would I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=M C=A D=N E=O F=V G=C H=Y I=G J=Q K=R L=K M=L N=I O=W P=E Q=U R=F S=Z T=B U=J V=X W=D X=H Y=S Z=P
- “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, Essays, Of Adversity (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=E C=U D=F E=T F=X G=L H=P I=S J=M K=J L=Q M=W N=H O=K P=N Q=I R=Y S=R T=G U=O V=A W=B X=Z Y=D Z=V