Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = E
CYMMDLDKNEKADWFKCNFCPYAVMDHMDNZCMNVDWTTQDVERDXCKDEFZDEMCZNVDWTTNVENPESVELLDKNCYFWKACKFDUYDKAD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- D
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Courage Cryptograms Set 11
5 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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: C = O
RYC,KCCIDKMCXCTLGCIZWLSRTMYZWTLWLKADWQWLKJBCCKNYDK,-ITNDQWJBDMQWTL!-MFQLNYTNLDGDNNTMSMCXBCQTCFNXWTL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- E
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = A
SWJGXDWINVFGYGCWOLJGLDGPBVFGYGCWOLJGFGDBIPW,GNLOCWOJIXOGAW,GFLAFWOFITW,LPDTLOWDYFWFWGOYINGUUFXCGPLYE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- E
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: P = E
CRPJQMPATVPTCORQEFXSOOUOCSTXPTHQEASJPCRPOPVQMPVPTCOQWHQFFPHCUMPOPFW-RPFYZBUCOPFWHQQYPASCUTJLUCRCRPV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- E
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = E
NBAFYTAYZFCZAGUPNBAZAGXYZPAGNBGXANDYZGIYRHJBXGHAHNBGNMXYDBGXPAXNYRUPAXHNGUPNBAIYXADANBCUWGQYRNNBAI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- D
- E
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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 (5 solutions)
- “Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 180 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=K C=O D=E E=A F=S G=B H=G I=Z J=X K=N L=P M=R N=T O=J P=M Q=W R=V S=Y T=L U=Q V=H W=I X=D Y=U Z=F
- “Who, doomed to go in company with Pain and Fear and Bloodshed, - miserable train! - Turns his necessity to glorious gain.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Character of the Happy Warrior (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=L C=O D=E E=Q F=U G=C H=V I=M J=B K=D L=N M=T N=S O=K P=X Q=R R=W S=Y T=I U=Z V=J W=A X=G Y=H Z=P
- “Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=G B=D C=M D=S E=Y F=H G=A H=K I=O J=C K=Q L=I M=Z N=F O=R P=N Q=V R=J S=B T=P U=L V=W W=E X=U Y=T Z=X
- “The Government should assist and encourage these movements of collective self-help by itself cooperating with them.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=R B=Y C=T D=K E=U F=L G=X H=C I=J J=G K=Z L=W M=V N=Q O=S P=E Q=O R=H S=A T=N U=I V=M W=F X=D Y=P Z=B
- “The love of Life and the fear of Death are two famous phrases that grow harder to understand the more we think about them.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=E B=H C=I D=W E=Y F=L G=A H=S I=M J=P K=Z L=Q M=G N=T O=C P=D Q=B R=U S=X T=V U=N V=J W=K X=R Y=O Z=F