Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = E
QRMOYPYOZIUZAMLNJVNOLNORMZIUZAMLNJVZJM;JNAURMAMZIZOVNOLNOYVVURYUVZJMHYOYJJNAL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 21
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: A = E
NADHAHGIADEAKXMACKDQDQLFKLRGFGDQLFGFSQWGCAFLDBELHGIAKQDKNGBKLCQDKKLFZKAQDEAC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: V = E
XUEZVFUEMZZPDVMQUMHMQXVHFUKQUJEVZGEXWVNEGCXEXUVD,EGNIDMSVXUVDZVNOVZHKJKQPNEPZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Q = A
XUASCSTVSTULINHPSIZMQHHLGQILJKLGKPZMQU,KPQKSKMQHQEKJQAAUKMZACZXSAZHGILXQAZXLT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: P = E
DIPXFPOCTQPKYFKEPNCNJFKENJH.VPOQPIOXXNPQNJDIPXOCCNKJVPYPPFDIOJNJDIODVPNJCXNQP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Q = T
WQMSORLLWCZT,OMQIMAZHKQDZAREDQZMXLIZORORQQDWOHKQDZSMMTLWOTLSWIBLQDWQLXAAMXOTRQ.
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)
- “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. VI. Chap. IX. 1777 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=Z C=Q D=J E=G F=Y G=K H=C I=S J=F K=U L=D M=E N=O O=N P=M Q=W R=H S=B T=X U=T V=L W=V X=P Y=A Z=I
- “Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=E B=W C=R D=T E=H F=N G=A H=M I=K J=Y K=S L=O M=P N=L O=Z P=X Q=I R=F S=D T=V U=B V=J W=C X=U Y=Q Z=G
- “Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=F B=Z C=G D=M E=O F=W G=N H=R I=Y J=D K=I L=X M=A N=L O=V P=U Q=C R=Q S=K T=P U=H V=E W=B X=T Y=J Z=S
- “My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.”— Sydney Smith, 1855, Lady Holland's Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, Vol. I. p. 262 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=X C=V D=J E=C F=Z G=F H=S I=R J=U K=T L=O M=W N=K O=P P=H Q=A R=Q S=I T=N U=Y V=G W=D X=M Y=B Z=E
- “The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 259 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=K C=S D=T E=V F=L G=M H=G I=H J=N K=O L=J M=B N=I O=A P=E Q=R R=Q S=D T=U U=Y V=W W=Z X=P Y=F Z=X
- “A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=R B=P C=V D=H E=G F=C G=J H=B I=M J=F K=Y L=S M=O N=L O=N P=Q Q=T R=I S=W T=D U=X V=Z W=A X=U Y=K Z=E