Puzzle 1
Starter clue: R = E
WZDGWBEEZJGQQJCGJCRWRRMWRKRLEJLRJXC,GWMWZWREZEDGQQJCGJCRWRRMWRKRLEJZZN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 16
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: P = E
KRPMVKRMLMLULKPFZWAZJPEVFPVK;HKHLDPYYQYMVVPT,PYMSZEMKP,MVTHLDPYYNMEEHPTZV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = N
ZRZPAXAJJJSHY,MOFIZXOFFXAHSHJAHJAOHOFHSMZHWFIAH,WSAJHSFBOJDARSBAZBSHZPRI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = N
EQETWINIONIJWQNIOATNJWOCCVEWI,NJRCAWHTQCBBIVTKJRWIVETRAWRATNJJBUUNGNTIR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: M = E
BUMDCJXHEMDLVMXW,-LVMXWDBDFUMXCBXFWNDFW;XKMVVZY-KMMVDFSNXPMEZFMYZFWCZHEPDFW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Y = E
UMUIIHRRPIYGMNKMKXXCOPSXYGFYUIKMMNYEPMMPTPBKSYXX,PVMNYBKVYOGPBKMYXYIZPRY.
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)
- “No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need never stoop.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=X B=I C=H D=M E=S F=Y G=A H=B I=Q J=T K=V L=R M=D N=P O=Z P=J Q=L R=E S=W T=K U=G V=F W=N X=C Y=U Z=O
- “The ant has a system of government; it is well planned, elaborate, and is well carried on.”— Mark Twain, 1906, What Is Man? and Other EssaysCipher key: A=G B=Q C=Z D=W E=R F=M G=X H=I I=K J=V K=T L=S M=A N=C O=U P=E Q=P R=H S=B T=D U=Y V=N W=F X=J Y=L Z=O
- “A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch.”— Horace Walpole, 1774, Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1774 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=M C=J D=B E=P F=T G=Y H=N I=H J=S K=X L=K M=W N=F O=I P=R Q=U R=C S=O T=Z U=V V=Q W=D X=L Y=G Z=A
- “My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=U C=O D=Z E=M F=J G=C H=V I=N J=S K=R L=K M=Q N=I O=G P=W Q=Y R=T S=L T=E U=F V=D W=A X=P Y=B Z=X
- “Their cause I plead, - plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.”— David Garrick, 1776, Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=T C=R D=I E=S F=N G=X H=U I=Q J=C K=F L=P M=E N=M O=Z P=K Q=J R=Y S=G T=B U=H V=L W=D X=A Y=W Z=O
- “It is supposed that all knowledge is at the bottom of a well, or the far end of a telescope.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=J B=F C=K D=Y E=B F=G G=D H=U I=S J=Q K=A L=V M=T N=H O=N P=O Q=X R=P S=W T=M U=I V=R W=Z X=L Y=E Z=C