Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = E
WCHDIEOVKWVZITKVKNGKJ,IAKRHAEWDDJIAKHNDUINFOWZKHVEKDDHVHAIZXKN;WCHXWBXIAK,WAJWGWJOHDKSQKDDKAQKWVZITKNKBHNJKJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 59
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: L = E
NGRXMINFCMIODVOUBNAWEXWOAEPOCLQNPIUXDILUXMD,QLSNHHAXVTNVLRXM.VQNDNDVQLIUNAFNIOHENGGLULAFLTLVSLLAOEXWOAEOPOA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = T
WXQMLQPLMREEWMXFBRFQIMTWHCQXWFHLSE,RKCTWHLHFZQKHISFRFWQKH,EQMFBLXQHFJRMFZQXXWFFBLXHLSPLHFQFBLZQKCIZFQEZBRKZL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: N = A
YPFPSWSLNMZFUYKNLYSOYNZB,XUYSHXRFYPFSEENUXSW;NWQNHNXWYSJSQFLNYF,NWQKNUUYSUSJFIPNYFZUF;OSLYPFWNJNWZFNQUYPFQNWEF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: E = S
DGFETMXYNNNYIEUGPPZMETIZKDZNMBTZYELYJT!NMBT,RFTTYEYKFYPEKWZPMRZGLYXPKTE,EAFTYJEZKENKWZPIKXWE,YXJKXYLMLTXPRNKTE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Z = H
EJJMZNRHFKZNGZBEIMNGNBEMYNRERQMZNRHKZNGZNFGVUUVRMVMZYUEJJ,UVSYMVKEICFMZEMKZNGZNFVXMZYFEUYPNRCKNMZMZYUFYJSYF.
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)
- “If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly or quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=N B=G C=F D=L E=W F=Q G=V H=A I=O J=D K=E L=J M=P N=R O=U P=K Q=C R=M S=X T=B U=Y V=S W=I X=H Y=Z Z=T
- “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”— Mark Twain, 1894, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonCipher key: A=N B=V C=K D=S E=D F=C G=F H=L I=P J=Z K=X L=E M=U N=I O=A P=M Q=H R=Y S=W T=B U=R V=T W=G X=O Y=Q Z=J
- “I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1588, Essays, Book III, Chap. VIII. Of the Art of Conversation (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=H C=D D=J E=F F=T G=Q H=S I=U J=P K=N L=E M=R N=G O=X P=V Q=O R=A S=L T=W U=K V=Z W=I X=M Y=B Z=C
- “The honorablest part of talk, is to give the occasion; and again to moderate, and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=Y B=K C=U D=J E=C F=E G=Z H=G I=W J=M K=P L=R M=B N=A O=F P=H Q=D R=V S=O T=X U=S V=Q W=N X=I Y=T Z=L
- “Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”— Alexander Pope, 1717, Eloisa to Abelard, Line 74 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=V C=K D=C E=S F=R G=U H=Y I=W J=D K=I L=M M=O N=L O=Z P=T Q=X R=F S=J T=E U=B V=Q W=G X=N Y=A Z=H
- “All things which participate in anything which is common to them all, move towards that which is of the same kind with themselves.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=J B=P C=D D=Z E=A F=S G=C H=G I=R J=L K=W L=U M=T N=I O=Q P=K Q=Y R=N S=V T=X U=M V=O W=B X=F Y=E Z=H