Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = T
WQQFZGABGKFTMVWMQFYUNWBBGMOULBZUSTMGGZKFMVGLMJLNVNVWSFMP,NWBBGMOUQFEUZKFMVGLMJLNVNVWSFMP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 36
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: K = I
PEQPNKXXPEDBRVEPNDBCKOPKJB,ZQPKPKXZVODQXVCKOPKJBKXJZUKRVGPJXPKOFPJLJXXKZKUKPKVX;PEQPNKXB'P.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: S = T
BSFYXEBFLZXQJEYBRHOFJ,SVYSBESPBAJSHQJDHFJEWDVCBSVHWSEYSBJSX,YURSJYDVHSVJPECBSVHWSCJYPBUJEE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: N = O
OBQKFZXQNKNQEDRNLGXANLKFYBQCOBERCKFCQFCO,IZK,ANLBXDOINENAKFCX,FYRNLGXANLKFYBQCOBERCKFNZKFCO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: F = E
SISBFYBFGFREORWCGSRJSRCGSHVTBAE,SCSHCGFXHFTIPWTBONXAOBCTRJXF,OREORSNFEFBORJFPFRCTIFYSCOYGH!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: F = E
SFJRJFAATNFFA,IBQFPZEBIP,XBXDJFFREIBAAIFKYA,EZXASFZ,EPBNASFTRIETFXEALK-RFFR,XBXPKKZXJEOBZECEBZ.
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)
- “All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity.”— Oscar Wilde, 1895, An Ideal HusbandCipher key: A=K B=N C=G D=P E=V F=I G=O H=Q I=Z J=M K=W L=U M=T N=C O=B P=Y Q=L R=X S=R T=S U=E V=H W=A X=J Y=F Z=D
- “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=W B=N C=F D=A E=R F=K G=D H=X I=J J=O K=I L=P M=Q N=H O=C P=T Q=U R=G S=M T=Y U=L V=E W=V X=S Y=Z Z=B
- “It may simply be said of me, that I strive to become such without satiety, and teach others without weariness.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=V B=I C=W D=C E=S F=M G=K H=O I=X J=E K=Z L=P M=G N=Q O=F P=R Q=B R=D S=T T=J U=N V=H W=U X=Y Y=A Z=L
- “Man thus not only works for the animal within him, but, for a symbol of this, he works for the animal without him.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=F B=A C=I D=Y E=L F=H G=K H=J I=B J=P K=T L=R M=V N=O O=M P=Z Q=N R=W S=G T=X U=D V=Q W=C X=S Y=E Z=U
- “If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1775, The Rivals, Act III. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=R C=T D=X E=D F=E G=H H=S I=F J=G K=J L=Q M=B N=C O=A P=M Q=K R=N S=I T=O U=Z V=W W=Y X=U Y=P Z=V
- “Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep a little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.”— Robert Herrick, 1648, Hesperides, To Mistress Susanna Southwell (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=I C=G D=C E=A F=E G=J H=Q I=L J=R K=O L=B M=V N=F O=W P=S Q=K R=P S=H T=Y U=Z V=M W=X X=D Y=U Z=N