Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Z = E
PUWHKCZLBEZAKBBAZRUGHZ,EUDHQFQPKUGHQWQWKRQAKBKHDEKPEWZNZLZWBLGHBHKBHAKTZBUUWZEUAZUWAX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 32
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: T = N
ZCZIFRSNTWGTNRZLNTSNK;WXXLGTLZIARETLNTW,YXIIZYRXDNTNXTA,JTXVUZLWZXMRSZVXIUL,ETLEVEIKSZEIR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: U = E
QSXUPAPUNSEIKVDUKKVDSUPUKSKNPUNZNBUDVDASQSXUDUUMQOOQPUKSYPUKUPJNSVQDNKNEIKVDUKKTNSSUP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: R = O
BVBATBIMRRGBSCRCTNMBHNWRKINSDWCTRYZTBSCRDIBLLRL,DSAKLRIRCTNLWCRCDGNDSNQDIXMNKRLTBIWNMK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: H = O
EGTQGWHEVWTATQRGQQGATZVHWEVZLDQHTBGQQVRLZOHUHPQHEWTWBHDAVRTZVHWOZHHZLGQOZLTWHPQOGAMGO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: R = H
QYY,RHSQRYBYEAQRYLJRYYZTGHARYLREAV!HPREPUSYLYEDBHIYTGHAPREPREAV,PREPUKUDRPPHTJRPREPJRYYZ!
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)
- “Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.”— Plautus, 189 BC, Truculentus, Act IV. Sc. 4, 15. (868) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=T C=D D=W E=H F=G G=U H=S I=X J=P K=I L=R M=K N=V O=J P=C Q=A R=M S=B T=F U=O V=Q W=N X=Y Y=Z Z=E
- “Everything united in him; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world, and a warm heart.”— Jane Austen, 1817, PersuasionCipher key: A=S B=Q C=V D=P E=A F=Y G=U H=J I=R J=K K=M L=D M=F N=I O=Z P=B Q=X R=T S=H T=N U=L V=W W=G X=O Y=C Z=E
- “Other great business interests are awakening to the need of forest preservation as a business matter.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1903, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=G B=K C=Y D=N E=B F=L G=X H=J I=U J=V K=S L=Q M=D N=A O=F P=R Q=O R=C S=T T=M U=E V=I W=Z X=H Y=P Z=W
- “I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.”— Terence, 160 BC, Adelphoe, Act III. Sc. 3, 61. (415) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=I C=T D=A E=W F=Y G=K H=V I=M J=C K=F L=R M=L N=E O=Z P=J Q=X R=O S=N T=H U=Q V=B W=S X=P Y=U Z=G
- “We are now in a larger relation with broader rights of our own and obligations to others than ourselves.”— William Howard Taft, 1912, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=L B=D C=Y D=B E=W F=M G=E H=O I=X J=P K=J L=H M=V N=C O=S P=U Q=R R=G S=Z T=A U=F V=I W=N X=K Y=Q Z=T
- “See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!”— William Shakespeare, 1595, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=L C=Z D=G E=A F=J G=P H=O I=V J=C K=M L=R M=X N=F O=Y P=T Q=S R=H S=W T=U U=I V=D W=Q X=B Y=E Z=K