Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = E
SNJCCNHOHVTFUXFHHMNHRROJRFUBRFHDH,SVMCFHDHSTFSVTHNNUDJVHYODAU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 9
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: U = A
OZOEWHEGQFUZUWEEHQFUNWDOEXUMHWZEUWEGFNZFIFNUWMFUWKUGGQOMUEOHW?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = E
SGQGWYPUKPOPNDEWKWPUUTGVDPAPEQTIGAPWDEQKRKWNPAPFGIPWEUPGREWVY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
BGZWUGVYGVHGSBGXUSUJYAGGBJYGVHJBW,BSVAGTSPSBGXUSUJYAGGBJAGTTJV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: I = T
AWFMMGIIFYLSAIPWANRIAMIPRDGGU,FQAMRCTJJ-ZRMIYRUFMIPFI'JFYYCRDQTUR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: D = E
CDHPDUAWDEDEYHYDQBEHEDCXPUADZZBUEAUPCLBSLEHWOPDLHZEUWHQHXWDQOZ.
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)
- “A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo.”— William Shenstone, 1742, The Schoolmistress, Stanza 28 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=P C=T D=R E=U F=H G=V H=E I=Q J=I K=X L=J M=D N=L O=B P=G Q=W R=S S=A T=C U=O V=N W=Z X=F Y=M Z=K
- “Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=Y B=F C=U D=W E=T F=E G=P H=O I=V J=X K=D L=J M=C N=R O=I P=B Q=L R=Z S=Q T=G U=A V=M W=N X=H Y=K Z=S
- “Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.”— Francois Rabelais, 1552, Works, Book IV, Chap. xxxviii (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=Z C=X D=H E=A F=S G=O H=G I=M J=C K=I L=P M=Q N=W O=V P=E Q=N R=F S=D T=Y U=L V=U W=T X=J Y=B Z=K
- “Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a beggar.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=B B=N C=Z D=M E=D F=Y G=E H=V I=X J=A K=P L=K M=Q N=J O=U P=F Q=L R=C S=O T=G U=H V=R W=T X=W Y=S Z=I
- “I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.”— William Cowper, 1782, Poems (1782), Conversation. Line 283 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=X C=P D=R E=Y F=A G=O H=J I=T J=S K=D L=K M=N N=V O=B P=H Q=F R=E S=W T=U U=M V=Z W=C X=Q Y=L Z=G
- “We are often engaged in a new profession for which nature has not adapted us.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=F B=I C=W D=E E=N F=K G=J H=A I=Q J=L K=Y L=H M=Z N=B O=U P=R Q=D R=V S=C T=X U=O V=M W=T X=P Y=G Z=S