Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
VGFXNWMVHZCMHGNZEAPEPWPM,VGFMPOOMZPPEGHLPXNCFZP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 3
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: K = I
ULUKDXRAKBMPOMXFOKOIXPUAAPMUPKOIFFQFQRXDQUIWKIB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = O
VCGCJCCGIDGWCBBMDEWIVPEYVQPKCLPF'YJFIDGEDVPDVECD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = T
UPUYBVAIKHHYAMSYATZMAYZNMUSVPUSBKHUSSHNXAMNSKYSN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Q = E
UQAQALQUOPNH,-OPEODQUVGNOOGQNHJQQFQFOKAETQEPEWWVGNCQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = E
BELDWNRNEENOBMVGBMAL'EBHW,HLGAPWMUWNGWZFGWAPWCNGWAGFW.
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)
- “Who buys wants a hundred eyes, who sells need have but one.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=R B=K C=T D=M E=D F=O G=H H=A I=J J=P K=C L=V M=S N=U O=L P=E Q=G R=I S=Q T=Z U=F V=W W=Y X=B Y=X Z=N
- “A pair of light shoes is not all that is needed for dancing.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=L B=G C=U D=R E=K F=E G=V H=W I=N J=Y K=I L=P M=H N=Q O=S P=T Q=D R=F S=Z T=J U=A V=B W=C X=O Y=M Z=X
- “To do good and communicate is the lover's grand intention.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=P B=M C=O D=N E=I F=R G=D H=X I=A J=G K=L L=V M=U N=Y O=B P=E Q=H R=J S=Z T=F U=K V=T W=C X=Q Y=S Z=W
- “I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.”— Alain-Rene Lesage, 1735, Gil Blas, Book VII. Chap. IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=H C=Z D=J E=V F=Q G=K H=L I=U J=B K=A L=G M=R N=E O=X P=W Q=C R=N S=T T=F U=I V=Y W=D X=M Y=S Z=P
- “Remember this, - that very little is needed to make a happy life.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, VII. 67 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=J C=F D=V E=A F=D G=L H=S I=X J=N K=O L=B M=W N=I O=T P=H Q=E R=G S=Q T=K U=R V=Y W=P X=C Y=Z Z=U
- “I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.”— William Shakespeare, 1611, The Winter's Tale, Act IV. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=I C=Y D=V E=L F=U G=R H=F I=Z J=C K=X L=O M=N N=A O=D P=H Q=J R=B S=G T=Q U=W V=P W=E X=K Y=M Z=S