Puzzle 1
Starter clue: N = E
IZWDQLTGIHRQNXLDVNJIIUWNNU,ZICWDQLNYQBNCTCDCNXTQFNNU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Dutch proverb Cryptograms Set 9
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: U = E
SDUXLOIIOEFUZZUVODZKUKRDJZKRDEUGUDWUUEULHSDZKUEZVRDJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = E
IGBIXBMEZVRSGOBFZOBBXCGXSGOB,GVOGBEVGBKBXVEAGMGTGNGOB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: X = O
FWKGTGHYEISZQXKEXYIXNIWKHXXS,JXUKSIZBXPKETGLIIWKFTGHXF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Z = E
GZTPPBSTPZ,CGUCGZMBZPNJBFCGZTIZCGWZZLUKPOZVBWZTCVWZZAZP.
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 (5 solutions)
- “Of hasty counsel take good heed, for haste is very rarely speed.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Q B=V C=R D=A E=Z F=P G=C H=U I=O J=G K=X L=T M=B N=E O=M P=J Q=S R=N S=W T=Y U=D V=K W=H X=L Y=I Z=F
- “One quill is better in the hand than seven geese upon the strand.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=F B=W C=J D=N E=S F=B G=V H=P I=L J=D K=H L=U M=Z N=X O=I P=Y Q=C R=A S=O T=K U=E V=R W=G X=Q Y=M Z=T
- “He that would jest must take a jest, else to let it alone were best.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=N B=T C=K D=P E=O F=M G=E H=Q I=H J=G K=I L=X M=W N=B O=S P=Y Q=C R=D S=J T=R U=F V=L W=V X=A Y=Z Z=U
- “When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Q B=C C=J D=B E=S F=W G=N H=D I=T J=P K=E L=A M=X N=F O=Z P=M Q=G R=L S=R T=I U=V V=K W=H X=O Y=U Z=Y
- “He is so wise, that he goes upon the ice three days before it freezes.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Z B=O C=T D=K E=M F=N G=H H=J I=C J=P K=Y L=D M=G N=U O=B P=S Q=L R=X S=W T=I U=A V=F W=R X=V Y=Q Z=E