Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = E
HKHLVEWVWJGFELDKJAFKFWGHPFCUFKUFWLUF[PEKQWF]UELYWJXFAKJUHGEZHPAYEWFPKJWEGFWRHTFLLLKFYGJKUFW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 38
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: O = E
RURX'KXRBHFO,FHXKOQBNOFBVNOFEKVFDOOCK;BNOFOGVFOMOBNQUKORKVXREMSDRBOFBNOVXO,RXCCOKBFVSBNOVBNOF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: V = S
QWQVTGWTDNDVVHOFWAHWHUHTVAGIYMDHOTAQVYQEQTSZFWADVXDHWGRAQVZOGX,ITYDVVADVXDHWVDHVQDOWAHTQMG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Z = E
OKZVEBV,HZEOQZCBDZQSGURZRSGOSXXBGUOE,BCR,XSDOKZQSEO,HZASQZQGAKQSDZOKZHZOOZDXSDHZLCIBULOOUZHBR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = E
ONRSJOGGQKFGGB,ONRJVKPJPRCKXDXDA,-FXURVFXBBJYNXVNNKQTRRDPRDOKJEDQRP:KQPRKPSJRKDGYBFGYJTROYRRD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = I
MPDSKEMESEWPDIPYSRLMKRLWGRMDELMYRLYMPDKHRLLDKYKRLDIHRMDKERGPEWEHNKDWWEYLYZXDROMEZOGMPELVW.
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)
- “It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.”— Pliny the Elder, 77, Natural History (Naturalis Historia), Book VII. Sect. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=Q C=W D=Y E=A F=E G=M H=I I=X J=O K=T L=S M=B N=Z O=J P=N Q=U R=C S=G T=L U=H V=F W=R X=V Y=P Z=K
- “A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=X B=T C=D D=W E=B F=R G=F H=U I=Z J=G K=S L=Q M=L N=H O=E P=K Q=I R=A S=Y T=J U=M V=O W=P X=N Y=C Z=V
- “It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=H B=Q C=P D=E E=V F=Y G=O H=A I=U J=Z K=X L=K M=D N=C O=R P=J Q=I R=F S=G T=N U=M V=S W=T X=W Y=L Z=B
- “They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad.”— William Shakespeare, 1604, Measure for Measure, Act V. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=A C=N D=R E=S F=V G=U H=B I=G J=K K=H L=I M=X N=W O=T P=Z Q=M R=D S=O T=P U=L V=Y W=J X=F Y=Q Z=E
- “They stood aloof, the scars remaining, - Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: A dreary sea now flows between.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816, Christabel; Kubla Khan, Part II (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=F C=M D=N E=U F=L G=O H=V I=X J=S K=A L=Z M=Q N=H O=T P=R Q=D R=E S=Y T=B U=K V=C W=P X=I Y=W Z=J
- “The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=J B=X C=Z D=E E=I F=V G=L H=M I=W J=Y K=R L=N M=T N=P O=U P=H Q=D R=A S=C T=K U=Q V=G W=S X=B Y=O Z=F