Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = E
VKZNIUXIDZKTIXWRAAFRKEFUIWFDRDPAQFAQMA,UQXJAAUEFVWQPAQPWJIA!VKZNIUXZKTIXIUDRAXKZQUPWQRDRKFVAE'PIUH!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Easy Cryptograms Set 46
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: S = E
OYOZEZYVEMISASZOVS,YXZSSPCXQSVEMAYXJXZSJORSVYW:XVYXZSSPCXQSVXDSVXYBSVZ,EMAYXJXZSCXQSVXDSVELEM'ZZSJK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Puzzle 3
Starter clue: K = E
LUZAYEKADFGUCFBCFBECPGMFQWKZLQUCKQLWKPELZUAIYKDHECFBMNODUQP,CEDJKFKJKUUKLMPKQCFPYUMHYCZFYZDFIZFK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Puzzle 4
Starter clue: H = E
DPHWHBCRZDPBRTSPBYPPXCQHDOHHRYZRDWBIHUOQKXROQSPBYPCZKEYPPXFFBRHCCBCFWZUEYHUXCOQXTZZUDXIHWRZWBRR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Puzzle 5
Starter clue: V = T
VNCYHCVHFVNCKFVPWVMCUCFACVNKLWHSKPFKMLMHZRCKLCWPQMZEVWHGCHSNPWYHWVCFPVAKVRCKWVBHERLKBBHGYRPWNPV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Puzzle 6
Starter clue: G = E
OMMEQPWOIVGGCLOCRGWLEPMJWFBDMFQTOYJFBDVEHGMORWFQGZDGVFGYUGOYJEDGVOCFEYUMGOVMTJGBEYWCVOCGCLGYGGJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
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)
- “How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down as in my mother's lap!”— John Milton, 1667, Paradise Lost, Book X. Line 775 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=K C=J D=Y E=R F=T G=X H=P I=L J=B K=O L=V M=C N=G O=Z P=S Q=N R=M S=F T=U U=A V=H W=I X=D Y=Q Z=W
- “It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=D B=H C=P D=V E=A F=Z G=Q H=J I=G J=L K=F L=M M=N N=C O=I P=K Q=W R=B S=E T=U U=X V=R W=Y X=O Y=T Z=S
- “From the man bringing his bundle of dried flesh for my teaching upwards, I have never refused instruction to any one.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=M B=G C=I D=A E=H F=N G=B H=C I=Y J=V K=E L=F M=U N=P O=W P=S Q=D R=Q S=K T=X U=R V=Z W=L X=J Y=T Z=O
- “There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. VI. Chap. III. 1776 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=I C=S D=T E=U F=P G=Z H=E I=V J=Q K=M L=K M=X N=J O=B P=H Q=Y R=N S=W T=G U=D V=F W=R X=A Y=C Z=O
- “The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=Y B=C C=E D=J E=U F=R G=M H=O I=Z J=K K=A L=D M=N N=H O=W P=I Q=G R=L S=F T=X U=V V=T W=S X=Q Y=P Z=B
- “All of us agree that we should simplify and improve laws if experience and operation clearly demonstrate the need.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Z B=M C=T D=P E=O F=I G=E H=V I=G J=D K=J L=H M=L N=K O=A P=U Q=F R=W S=B T=Y U=C V=R W=S X=Q Y=N Z=X