Puzzle 1
Starter clue: N = E
XFGKCSJXSKNHRYFRZNYFJNFHNTDNNCIHNEXTYR,FSHRYFRSCPGFEECSN,XSRYNDNFEGXPICDRASNPFSHBFXSPCICRYNDP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 41
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: H = E
UCHIJYYHIIVTPLPFUAWHPKIQBUUQHHSYHLUXCHKUCHKPUBVKBIJIBKMUCPULPFUATVFPQPFMHPKZZHTBKBUHLJFLVIH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Y = E
QTKZTBVGW,BDYKYOQKY,BQIFBTLQXBDGXEWIWBDYVIKYIXZBQRIMYIKYIWQXINCYLKQUGWGQXOQKHDIBYUYKBDYVRIVNY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: W = O
W,EWZCIASKO,EWZCIASKO,NZCJWTFEWZCIASKOEWZCIASKO!NZCRIFNDNHZEWZCIASKO,NZCNSFIAFYNFWKFWSNOOYWWVHZD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: F = T
RMXWPODXXWXMRGFKXHIPOOXHFNXOOSH,FKPFNKXMCRDORRBSMFRSFCRDHXXFKPFXPVFKSHMRFURMFSMXMFJDFSMHDOPV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: G = A
GYVUEIVXGU,UDHFV,EMGEIKCVFEKMVGHMBXFVIZEGIA,GUQNBIIFJVGAXKHVBUGXBUDEVEMGUMVNBIIFEGUQEKBUGXKUEM.
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)
- “I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”— Edmund Burke, 1757, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful, On the Sublime and Beautiful. Sect. XIV. vol. 1. p. 118 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=P C=O D=R E=L F=A G=M H=D I=F J=V K=C L=Y M=J N=E O=Q P=S Q=B R=T S=N T=G U=Z V=X W=K X=I Y=H Z=W
- “The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.”— Woodrow Wilson, 1913, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Y B=I C=H D=K E=B F=R G=Z H=E I=S J=U K=N L=P M=G N=Q O=J P=A Q=L R=V S=X T=F U=T V=O W=M X=W Y=C Z=D
- “Our duty is, therefore, to act upon things as they are and to make a reasonable provision for whatever they may be.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1806, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Z B=T C=L D=H E=G F=C G=I H=W I=A J=Q K=R L=P M=K N=B O=F P=J Q=O R=M S=X T=U U=V V=Y W=S X=N Y=E Z=D
- “O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.”— William Shakespeare, 1600, As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=Z C=D D=G E=W F=T G=Q H=I I=E J=M K=U L=V M=B N=A O=L P=J Q=X R=Y S=F T=S U=K V=P W=O X=C Y=H Z=N
- “One value even of the smallest well is, that when you look into it you see that earth is not continent but insular.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=P B=K C=Y D=U E=G F=T G=F H=S I=M J=B K=H L=Q M=N N=W O=L P=A Q=J R=O S=I T=Z U=C V=R W=V X=E Y=X Z=D
- “A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”— William Shakespeare, 1595, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=I C=V D=U E=T F=S G=A H=R I=L J=P K=O L=Z M=H N=W O=C P=Q Q=D R=B S=X T=J U=N V=E W=Y X=M Y=G Z=F