Puzzle 1
Starter clue: X = S
LUCRRXBRRVBRXXDAPULXAVWXXRZADXFMDZADPFD,LUCFMPUGFCZXWDZLUADPX,WZAJWDZVRCABFMXGWO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 24
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: X = N
YEDOLXYFLPPQXKQXYDPPQKDXODRXJDFBYSXJBQYBLCXXSYRFD,SXJCESYQYJLDB,SXJCEDFDLXQYCLFTB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = A
BMIMLBLISIMAUDCNWYKCSICMBFCNMLLGQWBUBUNQHQGUI,HWIBUBMACQNMHWIBUBMA,BUADIKBUISBFZI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = N
PJACBTNTAYGEBNKIFJTANENJTGKBCGYFUEUKEFJPMNTKENJTNGTJEJTIVTCFCGGKBVMYENTCXNEKMIC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: K = N
TDTKMSGZPKGHSTYYUZKHSWBGDYTKUBTKKGHOZKITKUMGCIZKSZPDWDGCUHSTHMZQQOZHHSWGBBTPZGK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: I = E
MFERSIGNCMQRTTCTGRZIAMSDAEKKIZDBRQGAIICI;DMEBMTMTGMB,OAIZRZSCRZIETTAEZEZUEZGAITYC.
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)
- “Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.”— William Wordsworth, 1842, The Borderers, Act IV. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=L C=R D=N E=X F=O G=W H=B I=K J=M K=Q L=T M=U N=J O=Y P=G Q=F R=E S=Z T=V U=H V=P W=A X=S Y=C Z=D
- “The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, VI. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=S C=W D=E E=H F=R G=M H=Y I=Z J=D K=G L=O M=Q N=B O=C P=L Q=I R=U S=A T=K U=F V=X W=P X=N Y=T Z=V
- “An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be.”— Oscar Wilde, 1895, The Importance of Being EarnestCipher key: A=T B=A C=O D=H E=J F=Y G=I H=P I=E J=W K=C L=G M=N N=U O=F P=Z Q=R R=V S=M T=X U=S V=K W=L X=Q Y=D Z=B
- “Modern industrial conditions are such that combination is not only necessary but inevitable.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=D B=R C=E D=Q E=T F=C G=S H=W I=L J=O K=A L=G M=B N=I O=F P=M Q=Z R=J S=P T=N U=H V=Y W=K X=V Y=U Z=X
- “A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=Z B=C C=R D=M E=Q F=U G=O H=T I=D J=K K=N L=B M=W N=J O=F P=S Q=L R=G S=H T=A U=Y V=X W=E X=V Y=P Z=I
- “A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky.”— William Wordsworth, 1800, Lyrical Ballads (1800), She dwelt among the untrodden ways (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=R C=Y D=F E=I F=V G=T H=Q I=E J=U K=D L=X M=A N=B O=W P=J Q=M R=O S=L T=S U=G V=P W=Z X=C Y=K Z=N