Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = E
DMRMMGRNQJNRJMPRNCPUMYFMUHCJVKLNCQQVMPXEVQUNBOPNOMPQWXBDMDXYYBKXQVBCYYWNLUMPFMQVMPXEVQUNBOMPUNRU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 47
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: A = E
ONOUDILADNVDFFOTAUUNBIANBQQCONVBKNOTXKLZDTPVADLN-HKLTOTIQLBEBTACVBVDUVDPNVAOSS-SKGRNBHAUALMAPHZZBK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: I = T
SGMUIIQUOINSGNGOSLNGRISIAMVSSFCISBNYMVUCIAUINCASHBFAUYMBMNCHQMUGFSTTSQIHGNIDISCMMIAMCTQNGROSLMNG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: L = S
XSUSJLXPBNPTEFXJPEL,JEXSULUELUJEOSJQSJRLUXSUOPBM,JLPTXUECULXLXRMJUMJEOPBZLEPXGBPTULLUMWNSJLXPBJQFW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = N
QFKYZYJD,EADEBAYWFSZSJAYWKEJADKQFKYHYV;KYWTFGTJZFXAZDHKY'ZZJZAEBHQFBPEKW,HDHZYJDMJFDSP,EADMSJZFSAYQKW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: X = E
CVXSZXJZGXYJSJLQXRZXMLBRCXWQXRVWQZGDJHHXSYXY;DXLYXXZYJCSPSVPRZQPEWLXVXWQLSJUWSUBMVQXRZXMLRVPURXGH.
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)
- “We need not concern ourselves much about the rights of property if we will faithfully observe the rights of persons.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Q B=F C=U D=W E=G F=V G=D H=M I=Z J=C K=A L=B M=E N=O O=P P=R Q=T R=N S=J T=K U=S V=H W=Y X=I Y=L Z=X
- “It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=E B=O C=W D=A E=M F=P G=C H=B I=G J=Q K=U L=R M=V N=T O=I P=D Q=F R=K S=L T=N U=S V=H W=Z X=J Y=X Z=Y
- “One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=H B=L C=S D=Y E=K F=D G=N H=U I=T J=Z K=X L=M M=E N=I O=C P=F Q=R R=G S=O T=P U=A V=W W=Q X=B Y=V Z=J
- “The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1824, On Mitford's History of Greece. 1824 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=R C=B D=Z E=N F=A G=P H=V I=J J=I K=G L=S M=D N=Y O=W P=O Q=C R=U S=H T=F U=E V=X W=L X=T Y=Q Z=K
- “Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.”— Alexander Pope, 1735, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires. Line 186 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=L C=J D=T E=B F=E G=W H=I I=C J=O K=A L=X M=P N=K O=Q P=Y Q=M R=Z S=R T=H U=V V=G W=D X=F Y=N Z=S
- “When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=K B=U C=W D=Y E=V F=J G=L H=F I=Q J=O K=Z L=T M=C N=X O=G P=I Q=R R=S S=N T=B U=M V=H W=A X=E Y=D Z=P