Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
LNPKGAQMKCQQQCLLQPZGLP,ZGAQGZWAPIPIOPAKNTLKPJTXNPAP,OSLCLFTZZPEPAVGAWPLKNTLLNPXMCMNPAP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 31
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: B = O
CRXMEXYWCYEGKCRYBDNRFREQRFXHGAAFEKKKENRCDAJBFUEURBUBYBYJEARBUBYCBCRXKGCXACNXUXYGCEBU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = E
DMIWHHWHNUVWHGZVNHYVBHOFBHUJ,RMHZMHNBDZZDLPVNUFDLP,RDZMOFMHHUBIBMDPMVNMDPMHNZMILOFMHIG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = T
SIAHGIRASUIRTRGLSAGRASUIPRIIUALHUJSAAHMWGUJAEHTSXAUWXFLKHPAXPTRSJSIOUFGPUIXSMHGRASUI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = E
NDICIVJKKMLEIWFJQIVOIPPRVPNTRJQ,ERLEIJJLRRDKWPXVR;DKWPEKXBELERNLSJNVO,LERNLVKPNVTNLNSJR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: S = H
USBPZXSUFHJSZRCIBDSVPVPZXDZHZJVDJBHFISZOPKJSVPZUOVNSVQBHFIUSBVXBCVRPF,AKUDFUHFIFUSBIP.
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)
- “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1863, Gettysburg AddressCipher key: A=R B=Q C=I D=K E=V F=C G=O H=Z I=M J=S K=W L=T M=D N=H O=B P=E Q=L R=X S=U T=A U=P V=F W=G X=Y Y=J Z=N
- “The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1862, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=S B=O C=T D=U E=I F=W G=A H=P I=M J=D K=L L=Q M=F N=G O=Z P=V Q=C R=H S=J T=K U=N V=B W=Y X=E Y=R Z=X
- “I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1588, Essays, Book III, Chap. XIII. Of Experience (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=S C=X D=I E=J F=Y G=D H=E I=A J=F K=B L=N M=H N=R O=M P=G Q=Z R=W S=U T=C U=L V=O W=V X=Q Y=P Z=T
- “International arbitration cannot be omitted from the list of subjects claiming our consideration.”— William McKinley, 1897, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=T B=Y C=Q D=Z E=H F=U G=R H=E I=N J=M K=J L=B M=D N=X O=G P=C Q=V R=A S=I T=L U=O V=K W=F X=S Y=W Z=P
- “If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, Essays, Of Fortune (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=G C=M D=F E=H F=P G=Q H=Z I=A J=L K=O L=S M=K N=I O=D P=T Q=Y R=E S=B T=V U=X V=N W=R X=U Y=C Z=J
- “The sight of children has a significance for him such as it may have for the aged also, but not for others.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=B B=E C=D D=N E=X F=O G=J H=F I=R J=C K=U L=Q M=W N=Y O=M P=S Q=V R=L S=H T=P U=T V=A W=Z X=G Y=K Z=I