Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Y = A
GXAYMMXIAYHITPTCYPYOPZJZQSDKYLT:ZHYLEYCCXGYHUYCHZP-PADOTEYK,YHSDHOATIEXCOYQJQZZSYHZOATEYHSOATCYKT!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 44
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: T = E
KDLSAFTJHKBVXCCZDLMWLNTLVTXLAFTVDKTDJADZ;XLTCDJJVAFTZTTDZJSDLUDLXAFTZJDAT,GHAWAKDMTVLXUWCCTZTLNT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = E
ECHESHSGXZMSYVCTLGWYLIYCSTEUWESBCYSHLUYCHCXXECLCITYCLUMXIGZIVXCYEUMFWSGFEYEUNWCXTYSVCIYLGCBSCN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = S
OCVVKJGFEVLGJGANLEMJGAFNFVRQVRKJLVCKJAAKNBJLSG,OSVXNSRMKJAAKNGAOANGBNLOLSDFJKVGVDFNXGOLSSJHJLNG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = E
DRESHIVILA,FKYRAD,DRESHIVILA,VAHPALAYAUARQALDAQAL,-IHAMIIZRHDAKKHYIHAIHDSILA,ZIIHAZSRHEUIHDZKHZHAQAL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: S = T
LAPLJTSSPAESZYEIAHMSTEIMEJSLWEN,TSSLWHSZQEJPMEJSLWEN,TEITSKJHSZLTMEJSLWEN,PWCCCATITPHASOLAIJCITNA.
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)
- “By happy chance we saw a twofold image: on a grassy bank a snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood another and the same!”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IX (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=V C=S D=I E=R F=U G=B H=N I=C J=F K=M L=G M=P N=Q O=T P=W Q=L R=Z S=D T=E U=K V=X W=J X=Y Y=A Z=O
- “Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IV. 15 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=P C=F D=A E=Q F=H G=B H=U I=G J=L K=M L=N M=K N=C O=Z P=W Q=J R=X S=Y T=E U=D V=S W=I X=O Y=V Z=R
- “He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”— John Milton, 1642, An Apology for Smectymnuus (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=P C=E D=J E=H F=G G=U H=W I=A J=Y K=C L=R M=N N=M O=Z P=X Q=K R=V S=O T=F U=I V=B W=S X=L Y=T Z=D
- “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=M C=F D=P E=C F=H G=S H=V I=Z J=I K=L L=N M=Y N=E O=A P=U Q=G R=B S=D T=X U=Q V=O W=J X=R Y=W Z=K
- “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, - One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”— William Shakespeare, 1599, Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=P C=U D=S E=G F=L G=B H=N I=O J=X K=A L=R M=F N=J O=Q P=W Q=V R=I S=H T=Z U=C V=M W=K X=Y Y=D Z=T
- “He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothing, and at forty has nothing, will lead a wretched old age.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=E B=Q C=L D=X E=N F=Z G=P H=R I=D J=O K=F L=H M=S N=G O=C P=W Q=K R=M S=T T=A U=B V=J W=I X=V Y=U Z=Y