Puzzle 1
Starter clue: B = T
ZPQROBEPQBMWRFPTPQBJABZJHAJQJTBLMDJATFJTBWQPBSWFJBMZPQZWTRQWTRBMBAWTQFPBPBOTPFHWPAJRXEZPFBMZPQQOSSJQQMA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 57
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: N = E
BNKUHIQHC,LRNOIQHLSHNUXFNDX-YUENIGKNGL,SFQHUENGQGLQKUGYXINNKNGLUINFONHLLRNISYRLFQGBDSMNILSNFUXLRNSIXNDDUPF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = E
NTXVOOVXTJTGTMLEZO,ZTWOMNOXOLMNLMXNAMXXMTZZLXTMDYOX,LJVZOLUOXJDMSLKMXJDSYSTJMXDPYSOKOVOJMPDSYDDSGOJ'XPLKMX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: E = N
OIUKEEVPTIEJPLKPDVOIGZNKHKUPVGZEOVGWTDVWZPZUNKEJXVGIPLKEOIUKETIEJZPNIQZNPIEUIKNKHKUPVGZEEKPZVEKWDVWZPZUN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: S = O
WSWPZIBDGZV-LSJGBCAGCQPZQUAIQGZKAPDQBGDQPWSCNSAASCMIYUQDSVQMSPLMQICEPWSCIBGIDSCIYZKEGJGZSWGEWPYZUNSWUCUSC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = N
NGOSYEOGNGKGNYEGUWICNGGWLNEIXEROYKERNEIIWEWLXCNGNWOYQEXGKLXCLNIUGHUNSUJXPWKMGUWRWSCXLXGNYEYQNERWMWERWESW.
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)
- “His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1861, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=R B=T C=K D=V E=Y F=M G=J H=P I=Z J=E K=L L=G M=O N=Q O=U P=I Q=S R=D S=C T=N U=W V=X W=A X=B Y=F Z=H
- “Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Q B=D C=Y D=L E=V F=S G=N H=C I=R J=U K=M L=T M=B N=E O=P P=W Q=A R=H S=I T=J U=O V=Z W=K X=F Y=G Z=X
- “His deeds inimitable, like the sea that shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.”— George Chapman, 1607, Bussy D'Ambois, Act I. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=Z C=Q D=O E=B F=Y G=M H=J I=X J=N K=C L=A M=T N=H O=E P=F Q=G R=W S=R T=I U=V V=D W=K X=S Y=P Z=L
- “We cannot deny that power is a factor in world politics any more than we can deny its existence as a factor in national politics.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Z B=U C=K D=P E=N F=Q G=R H=F I=E J=Y K=A L=H M=B N=S O=W P=T Q=X R=G S=V T=D U=C V=O W=L X=M Y=J Z=I
- “Popular self-government ultimately must rest upon common habits of thought and upon a reasonably developed public opinion.”— William Howard Taft, 1912, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=M B=R C=N D=S E=D F=J G=E H=W I=A J=V K=Y L=G M=H N=C O=Q P=U Q=T R=K S=O T=X U=I V=F W=P X=Z Y=B Z=L
- “Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”— Rufus Choate, 1856, Letter to the Maine Whig Committee, 1856 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=V C=L D=B E=N F=Q G=T H=W I=G J=M K=U L=R M=P N=I O=S P=K Q=F R=D S=C T=Z U=H V=Y W=E X=A Y=O Z=X