Puzzle 1
Starter clue: U = E
QPQRUDYDPVCYODVUYCPUU;MCXALDPUUQOQVCKBUQAYQAUVYQVLHDBYXU,YTQYICXALPQYDPKWOU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 18
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: U = E
LRVUKRGVLDRGCNDDZUKGVLDRDRBPLNPURSQKLRYZUGNUTQJVXUXGJUSLJRDVGDRU-BGOJVKUUV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: M = N
LBVNMLVAAVDLWOAQURVJ,LBJUWYBRUJHTOMHLBNMYT,RVMLTUWMHNMYUMOHNXOMHQVJNAUWTROS!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = E
UXFAVSHAFFH,WHAGLSVRIOF,WHDWAWIOF,RARHUAFUHRERH'AZRGF,ULRCFRVNFLGUGMUHRAVFFKOF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = E
DLXSBXGDHKHKOWXXNXDWH,DTUZGDHKHKOWXXLXSBXH,DOUWHXKOWXXTUZH,DSTDVDSKOWXXOUWHXH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: F = I
QLDMLJXXFCAFUFGFBRIFDCVRXJUJLHYVJLJOJRCIRGFOFIRIFDCRCNLJMKGRIFDCDEADCILRAI.
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 sage it is not mine to see; could I see a man of real talent and virtue, that would satisfy me.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=L B=R C=O D=I E=B F=Z G=J H=V I=W J=K K=F L=D M=C N=P O=M P=S Q=A R=G S=X T=H U=E V=N W=Y X=U Y=T Z=Q
- “International cooperation on which enduring peace must be based is not a one-way street.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Q B=W C=L D=O E=V F=X G=A H=J I=F J=S K=R L=I M=K N=C O=Y P=H Q=U R=N S=D T=M U=E V=T W=Z X=B Y=G Z=P
- “The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=H C=V D=C E=X F=B G=K H=D I=Q J=R K=J L=T M=N N=I O=A P=Z Q=P R=W S=Y T=S U=O V=E W=U X=M Y=G Z=F
- “O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.”— William Shakespeare, 1591, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=Q C=W D=V E=M F=E G=C H=N I=B J=Y K=P L=R M=K N=H O=L P=D Q=G R=A S=U T=Z U=O V=T W=I X=J Y=X Z=F
- “A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=B B=C C=Z D=A E=I F=V G=L H=S I=P J=Q K=T L=F M=K N=Y O=H P=J Q=U R=X S=N T=D U=O V=M W=R X=E Y=W Z=G
- “Progress in civilization has everywhere meant a limitation and regulation of contract.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1908, Eighth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=C B=Z C=N D=O E=F F=I G=L H=Y I=T J=E K=U L=R M=G N=D O=M P=B Q=P R=A S=J T=Q U=V V=H W=K X=S Y=W Z=X