Puzzle 1
Starter clue: X = E
XWXZSXVOEKRZBKRXQDEWXBNKBCXBDPXZXVO,HPEQPEKMJKBDXCRBZMZS;MZBTVOMVONEVMJKTQQXKKVBHPXZX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 30
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: I = E
FISZBBPJSPBJEBNIJVIQIUGEHHEZBJQNSSIQQIQEBJVIKNJNGI,NBHIQQFISPBJEBNIJPHIZGBKGPXJVIAZQJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: X = E
GBXFLGXMQLYRMCWMXHHLEAVXYNLMXCNGBXHGLGXHAXRXEACEGBXRMCGXJGQCELNNCMAXAGCGBXQMJQGQUXEH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = E
GCXNXWFEATPGCXPPXAESFQTISZZAPAVRA.FQAPA'WTITSWG;SECXHILSBAGCXWCNABSCHAFW,OXFFQAGESFQAPAI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = E
PXEAFPZDXDVUQPVYDVTPZDQCCQVXUWCRDT;GEPPZDXDVUTWNEAC-UPXDQRUDPPVTNCWXDLDXVTWTDYVXDHPVWT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = E
AUZBSVTIVOBCFQBNFYSBQBOFQZ.DBVTAPSTFSFYDXAZKVQYRVISAKBQPIZRFZKAXBQVTAKIKKIAXVFTAPKBDC.
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)
- “Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=J B=O C=M D=T E=I F=Q G=B H=W I=Z J=L K=S L=X M=A N=F O=D P=H Q=C R=P S=Y T=U U=K V=N W=V X=E Y=G Z=R
- “We can not continue these brilliant successes in the future, unless we continue to learn from the past.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=P B=N C=Z D=X E=I F=W G=R H=L I=E J=T K=F L=V M=J N=U O=G P=O Q=S R=Q S=C T=Y U=B V=H W=K X=M Y=D Z=A
- “The material progress and welfare of the States depend on the protection afforded to their citizens.”— Rutherford B. Hayes, 1878, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=D B=H C=O D=V E=N F=M G=T H=S I=J J=C K=Y L=A M=R N=F O=K P=U Q=I R=P S=X T=Q U=Z V=W W=G X=E Y=L Z=B
- “You must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Hamlet, Act IV. Sc. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=V C=O D=P E=W F=T G=Y H=L I=D J=X K=J L=G M=Q N=M O=B P=R Q=H R=C S=I T=A U=Z V=N W=S X=U Y=K Z=F
- “Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.”— James Russell Lowell, 1870, Among My Books, First Series. New England Two Centuries ago (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=W C=F D=E E=U F=Y G=B H=C I=X J=K K=Z L=V M=P N=G O=Q P=T Q=A R=M S=J T=N U=S V=I W=O X=R Y=D Z=H
- “I knew that before you were born. Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.”— Phaedrus, 25, Fables, Book V. Fable 9, 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=E C=F D=L E=X F=O G=Z H=P I=A J=Q K=S L=V M=G N=Y O=B P=M Q=R R=C S=W T=H U=K V=T W=J X=D Y=U Z=N