Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = E
OXYZKEMNXWMXDHKDDKWMLKXDSMROTTKIYTTDSMTOIMYXLTOHMNDVKIMEMNVOXLOEOLPYTGODOUMXHMGKWMOXDMNMFDOXZDKYTT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 50
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: A = I
GMJMXB,VSMSWYGMEJCCGAGESCAGECIAMIMUWUWZANB,TWGYWBVSWEESCXAUUATLNEACYMUWGBAGXAKAXLWNMUESWEUWZANBZWBJC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = E
RPGYOXGVRYYGWGTKCKPGL;BHLGFGLXCCNLOTRHPBOUCTSRTK,RYKBGRLLMTGLOBGCOBGTQRTOF,UHTLOCURXX,OBROBGBRLDGGYVGO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: B = A
BPAMWGRPNBRGZKNKWISIRGWIBWKRIPMBZEGRMBRZKEGZNBU'RZIE-YBZHFISNGWPM;QTPFGXIKYIBAMPMGZHPMBPGZRIBRKZHWKER.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: J = E
PRJNLYJFIUJIPMRLQSAZMMEMPZIAJIDLQFZNJPRJMJULYJUJIPMLTDLSSJDPEYJMJST-RJSOWBEPMJSTDLLOJFZPEINKEPRPRJU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = E
RUBQJCPOQPRXVCZRKSXQPSRUBVIBQVUQABJDBKKBOSCVGSCPRVINZRUMDBPRIQPONZRURUBHBQPKSXQXDSCVZKUZPFGSHHBVGB.
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)
- “In a government bottomed on the will of all the life and liberty of every individual citizen become interesting to all.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1805, Fifth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=J B=Q C=K D=T E=V F=S G=C H=B I=F J=X K=O L=D M=E N=R O=I P=U Q=P R=W S=H T=L U=Z V=Y W=M X=N Y=A Z=G
- “Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”— Jane Austen, 1815, EmmaCipher key: A=I B=Y C=E D=K E=T F=Q G=N H=P I=R J=B K=V L=U M=O N=L O=Z P=G Q=X R=J S=H T=C U=F V=W W=A X=D Y=S Z=M
- “A gentleman never dodges; his eyes look straight forward, and he assures the other party, first of all, that he has been met.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=Q B=H C=O D=B E=C F=Y G=E H=I I=X J=Z K=D L=S M=U N=K O=T P=G Q=P R=A S=W T=R U=F V=M W=V X=L Y=N Z=J
- “At Christmas I no more desire a rose than wish a snow in may's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=A C=J D=P E=W F=L G=I H=G I=E J=Q K=O L=X M=H N=M O=V P=T Q=B R=S S=D T=U U=Y V=Z W=R X=K Y=F Z=N
- “The Government should assist and encourage these movements of collective self-help by itself cooperating with them.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=D B=Y C=K D=C E=I F=R G=Q H=X I=N J=E K=W L=O M=S N=G O=P P=T Q=U R=H S=L T=F U=M V=J W=B X=Z Y=V Z=A
- “The abundant fruits of another year have blessed our country with plenty and with the means of a flourishing commerce.”— George Washington, 1790, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=V B=E C=U D=L E=Q F=G G=C H=M I=Y J=B K=S L=X M=P N=W O=D P=N Q=A R=T S=O T=Z U=H V=R W=K X=F Y=J Z=I