Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = E
GSQACRSCXVCZRPCAALZVCVQFXQFXFTTFCSCZVLRSCAQRRACTFCL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 4
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: B = E
SYCBBITGYRQTBQGLIOBTQBYYZGLTEBYGLKERIOBYSCSLIRLLBYY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: S = T
WGWZZVTGMQSWOQY,QYVQZWSSZDZDJJ,STKDQKZDSTOTYSWYNDQSWS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: H = N
JXCNCHTQCHAKBHR,-JXCNCH,SNCBH,TQKSAXJBHRKCBRSHASHCHAKBHR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: K = S
ZVOZBOOECKOKBSBDOZUVKKSEDVHQ,ZBKBANNQLDOHVKKBABDHKOZDT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = I
FMWRCFBQRCITAZTQUWBUBRGBHCFWGFMZQASMCRCFBQRCIWIWHFBQR.
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)
- “While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=L B=K C=E D=Z E=X F=N G=W H=Q I=F J=D K=P L=S M=V N=Y O=U P=B Q=I R=T S=H T=O U=M V=R W=C X=G Y=J Z=A
- “A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”— Robert Herrick, 1648, Hesperides, Delight in Disorder (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=E C=W D=Q E=L F=B G=I H=V I=T J=X K=C L=N M=G N=M O=H P=Y Q=R R=O S=A T=D U=J V=P W=U X=Z Y=S Z=K
- “I will do what I can, and a little less, to be able to continue at it.”— Italian proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Y B=R C=F D=E E=M F=G G=W H=Z I=Q J=S K=B L=J M=H N=U O=C P=X Q=A R=V S=T T=O U=P V=D W=I X=K Y=N Z=L
- “The men of England, - the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.”— Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. III. p. 365 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=A C=E D=U E=J F=S G=K H=N I=P J=T K=L L=Q M=V N=M O=W P=R Q=F R=D S=I T=O U=B V=Z W=Y X=H Y=X Z=C
- “He that trusts a faithless friend, has a good witness against him.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=G B=A C=U D=I E=R F=J G=V H=N I=Y J=K K=S L=W M=B N=O O=T P=X Q=D R=Q S=F T=M U=L V=E W=C X=Z Y=P Z=H
- “The national purpose is indicated through a national election.”— William McKinley, 1901, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=U B=I C=A D=Q E=V F=T G=D H=C I=L J=W K=F L=Z M=H N=M O=Y P=X Q=O R=N S=G T=P U=S V=K W=E X=B Y=J Z=R