Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = T
AJCVXGKTJEKLCGCGKCWLPGCNKRJXNLPGC;KZSLZCGKCEKLCGAJCVXSKWJCFSFFVWSVCQKXUJVZSJWXCKZSLC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Courage Cryptograms Set 10
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: M = E
AKCNCWMUGBCKCDSXJMKCDPGQMJUMJMAMSKXHMCJSBXVUCPMNXCRRAKXKCQMLCGNKGJPXQMUJWMJNOENKMHMXHRM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = E
QFPQTDWGQNHD,PQHIHMXUJHMZQGQYVMHVDPHUFVIGCMVDFIMQUFH,IFPZQMVCDIXUCWVIFYDNDXNGDLDHTUFIXWVH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: J = O
YIDADLYPJMYFVASYVJMJHKJBDFMTDMYXVDLVMDMPJSFOKDTDMYJHYIVLBJXSMYOFZPJJRDFOYVJMVMYIDPJTTSMVYZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: H = E
LPAHLOBLXGEALWHLFOUSXDBMDOEHHJKHFOHZOSEHKHANSABHZTUOQSMOTUOXHDD,NSASXHOQLOFSBHDOSDSBHXSOUFH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: M = A
FBQFVOVSOMYNQMEYTUDEUAXXLMXAQMYSMTPTMFQYFB.FBQHDXSOMYTFEVPQTUDESDAHXQLMXAQMYSGDOIEDOVTQTDYIME.
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)
- “Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1859, Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=C C=T D=P E=F F=O G=H H=B I=X J=E K=A L=I M=Q N=M O=J P=G Q=Y R=K S=D T=V U=W V=U W=R X=S Y=Z Z=N
- “What America has done has given renewed hope and courage to all who have faith in government by the people.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=W B=C C=A D=S E=Y F=Z G=I H=P I=K J=N K=H L=F M=E N=T O=B P=G Q=V R=L S=D T=Q U=R V=U W=M X=O Y=J Z=X
- “In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”— John Milton, 1667, Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 597 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=Q C=F D=E E=Z F=N G=L H=S I=A J=U K=J L=X M=T N=P O=B P=D Q=I R=K S=V T=M U=O V=H W=C X=R Y=G Z=W
- “The best contribution of government lies in encouragement of this voluntary cooperation in the community.”— Herbert Hoover, 1930, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=B B=V C=Z D=E E=D F=R G=W H=F I=H J=O K=G L=S M=N N=Q O=A P=C Q=X R=P S=U T=M U=J V=I W=K X=L Y=T Z=Y
- “A great many brave actions must be expected to be performed without witness, for one that comes to some notice.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=R B=M C=Z D=S E=B F=C G=Y H=E I=K J=X K=P L=A M=U N=F O=T P=G Q=H R=J S=O T=W U=I V=L W=V X=N Y=Q Z=D
- “The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=U B=H C=W D=O E=R F=T G=C H=B I=P J=X K=Q L=V M=A N=Y O=M P=K Q=E R=Z S=D T=S U=F V=I W=J X=L Y=N Z=G