Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = E
IUKZKXZKIBNIOHKEOJXHXJ'EVOGKBUKJUKEUNAVLJNIEMKDAVXIK:BUKJUKDXJ'IXGGNZLOI,XJLBUKJUKDXJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 27
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: O = A
OHORHOVQGRPRPBGQPUQTOWPPCCQQC,JDYEOGGQGPRYPORPYSQTOGOUBRQYPJQOTWTOEQGOWOBRBRGQOGPR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = N
JKXYBOSYMTNFPBHMXRFNEB,YBZJTTHMXSNTTKMFXYNHUEBHBFNXJMH,NHIYJOTBNFHJHRZJTTHMXPBOMTJI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: O = T
TYOBVDHONYGVBYZPOJVKODSKQSVIY,BVQVOJYQZPIYOJDBDHHVQGPBAOVOJYSYQUYHOSQPBHPSTYIVUDQO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Z = I
FQRZQVNFEJRBMISMZFQSQAKRXZRHNSABZJRQRAZQOFHSZON,SQAHSZONKRGFERSJSMMZFQSORZQOIZOZFQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: S = E
UKHWKKSGFQUKKQSUPKAEFSYAEWGSUDPSGUEGKEVFUDHSGUKFAEVQLNSQUISVFUDEVKFULSWXXSWGWDTSF.
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)
- “There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=U B=W C=G D=C E=S F=Z G=F H=M I=T J=N K=E L=D M=P N=O O=I P=J Q=K R=Y S=B T=Q U=H V=L W=X X=A Y=V Z=R
- “A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, V. 6 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=I C=D D=U E=P F=X G=S H=M I=Y J=B K=L L=W M=Q N=C O=A P=O Q=E R=N S=H T=R U=V V=K W=G X=J Y=T Z=F
- “If the scholar be not grave, he will not call forth any veneration, and his learning will not be solid.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=Z B=E C=U D=J E=V F=R G=Q H=N I=D J=I K=F L=M M=O N=A O=S P=B Q=X R=G S=C T=L U=Y V=P W=K X=T Y=H Z=W
- “Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=G B=N C=Z D=A E=K F=Y G=D H=C I=S J=H K=U L=Q M=V N=B O=T P=I Q=R R=X S=P T=L U=F V=O W=M X=J Y=E Z=W
- “One in whom persuasion and belief had ripened into faith, and faith become a passionate intuition.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=R C=Y D=V E=M F=O G=C H=F I=U J=P K=B L=G M=S N=H O=T P=J Q=N R=E S=A T=Z U=Q V=W W=X X=L Y=K Z=I
- “It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=H B=Z C=Q D=N E=O F=S G=R H=M I=K J=G K=T L=D M=Y N=B O=V P=F Q=L R=J S=E T=C U=I V=U W=A X=P Y=W Z=X