Puzzle 1
Starter clue: N = O
PNFYNHIENRXBIBVM,PNFYNHIENRHVJQIE,XJPUJCVZTRNYJPWQNMMBPVBIEVYIEVPZUOVYNYIEVXEJYJXIVYNRIEVRJYUBPFTNTZQJIBNP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 58
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: Y = E
DCYZHIBHWQODGHIHBCGFQGIRKOFFVZCDCODKCODYTYWKOFMGDDMYFYYQYRDHCGQLWYOD,OIRKCODYTYWKOFLWYODFYYQYRDHCGQMGDDMY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: N = E
RENENXOREBNBNPKLERRPINNXOOHZIZAONREZMLIXMJMPRRPIXB,ZQZIEWPSLSNNMREZMLI;WPSREZIZIRENDPMJZRZPMPWXJZINXINJNBN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Z = T
ZAKJKDJKPKHZADZQBWWPDUKFEOCEEUG,DHMZOJHZAKPWEEGKBHZEZAKQEJWM,QBZADGPOIAMBGSDZIADGZAKFQEOWMMEDMBGAERRJBZZKJG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: J = E
RJZGVYOEMDCPVOYOGJEEYUJORJRVOXJKYFJFAPJVRRJIGVHEJGZYHCOVEWAZVXLCFGYOUGDJXYWWJZJORJFHJGQJJORVIYGVEVOXEVHAZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = T
JXBTOLTORWUTEVDXTFNTEEDUZIITTUZIBTOZFDWDZWZUWFTEEDU,DJEPDFLFJEDEPJUNILTFEPFDZWJUN,TFWTEPJUNILTFEPEPDLFJEJUN.
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)
- “No growth of cities, no growth of wealth, can make up for any loss in either the number or the character of the farming population.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=D B=I C=K D=V E=H F=G G=X H=W I=T J=A K=Z L=J M=S N=O O=B P=N Q=L R=F S=Q T=P U=M V=E W=Y X=C Y=R Z=U
- “The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1833, On Horace Walpole. 1833 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=F C=H D=T E=X F=S G=I H=O I=N J=Y K=W L=G M=L N=P O=A P=K Q=M R=D S=Z T=V U=Q V=U W=R X=B Y=E Z=C
- “The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=B B=Y C=J D=C E=H F=M G=Z H=V I=S J=D K=U L=G M=N N=E O=L P=O Q=W R=T S=R T=K U=P V=X W=F X=A Y=Q Z=I
- “There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1615, Don Quixote, Part II, Chap. III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=I C=B D=A E=O F=Y G=S H=N I=C J=R K=E L=V M=D N=Z O=U P=M Q=W R=F S=P T=G U=K V=X W=L X=Q Y=J Z=T
- “Certainly human intelligence can devise some acceptable tribunal for adjusting the differences between capital and labor.”— Woodrow Wilson, 1919, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=O B=Z C=U D=H E=L F=S G=T H=B I=P J=E K=V L=J M=Y N=K O=N P=M Q=W R=C S=X T=Q U=G V=A W=F X=D Y=I Z=R
- “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”— Benjamin Franklin, 1738, Poor Richard's AlmanackCipher key: A=V B=Y C=Z D=E E=T F=R G=K H=J I=S J=I K=P L=W M=Q N=G O=U P=H Q=M R=L S=C T=O U=N V=B W=D X=F Y=X Z=A