Puzzle 1
Starter clue: I = T
IUMFISERESIOFTIUSVSZLISIAOIXMJJMFOZZUETOFZSXMIAIASZUFKIMILIMUFMKIASROEODULFITLIHUWIASSVSZLIMQS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 45
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: C = O
JZQOIZQWUKKCGQJOGQKKCSOJJSQJZWJJZQIQOKBCICCGTCILOJ;KCGQJOGQKKCSCBDJZWJJZQIQOKBCLOJTCIKCGNMZICCG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: V = O
KIV,GVVEWGAVHVNCJVELTCPKNAILTNCTCGMWTUTCGQZVVGBIWG,-ENBWUTQZWAUTNC!-AFUCBINBCWJWBBNAPAVHZVUNVFBHTNC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = E
YIHIHKIYDMBQ,-DMEDDMIYIBQEOYFOIYLBPSBDXESLOYFOFYDBFSDFKIFKQIYCILBSDMIOIYTFYHESJIFTICIYXEJDFTABTI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = I
UIHMEIMLGVQHMHMXPJNGHGPJGJSGCI,MJNLMAUIQMOILHRNGINGH;PRZDPLHISMWPZMHIOGIUGLJPDPZIHQMJMJGDBZILLGPJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = O
VNGQWKTQGOZMJMAWWD-TMGQSZLJT;MJHLHLHDLESGQSIWKJGZNVMJAQWDWWESHXWZQLOMOOAQLDSQSAMOVWKJGSHWJQLOUMIE.
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)
- “To interpret and to execute that will in accordance with the Constitution is the paramount duty of the Executive.”— James A. Garfield, 1881, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=H B=Z C=Q D=M E=R F=N G=J H=Y I=T J=L K=S L=U M=I N=K O=A P=B Q=V R=P S=E T=D U=O V=X W=F X=W Y=G Z=C
- “Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.”— Thomas Fuller, 1642, The Holy and Profane State, Of Natural Fools (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=N C=O D=G E=Y F=K G=M H=X I=R J=T K=S L=W M=C N=U O=I P=Q Q=E R=J S=L T=F U=D V=P W=A X=Z Y=B Z=H
- “Who, doomed to go in company with Pain and Fear and Bloodshed, - miserable train! - Turns his necessity to glorious gain.”— William Wordsworth, 1807, Poems in Two Volumes, Character of the Happy Warrior (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=S C=N D=Q E=M F=U G=D H=G I=H J=C K=W L=P M=F N=I O=Z P=Y Q=B R=K S=V T=A U=R V=O W=E X=J Y=X Z=L
- “Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IV. 32 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=I C=V D=T E=A F=O G=U H=M I=E J=C K=B L=D M=H N=Q O=P P=G Q=S R=W S=N T=F U=Z V=K W=J X=Y Y=R Z=X
- “We take a sight at a condition in life, and say we have studied it; our most elaborate view is no more than an impression.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=Y B=P C=F D=M E=K F=Q G=I H=T I=E J=N K=J L=S M=A N=D O=V P=O Q=H R=U S=L T=X U=W V=G W=B X=C Y=Z Z=R
- “My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1615, Don Quixote, Part II, Chap. LVII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=V C=P D=L E=K F=Q G=T H=D I=C J=N K=U L=I M=A N=Y O=S P=Z Q=H R=J S=E T=G U=B V=M W=O X=F Y=X Z=R