Puzzle 1
Starter clue: B = E
IQBRWNJDEKXINBYYQNHBDEPCI,ENOBYIDWY;IQBAQDWNINBYIQDIYPPIQBDHKQBDEDHKLEBYYDWBYADIIBWBKDIIQBCBBIPCJDHENOBCEPVBWY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 61
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: B = T
EWSGBUBORF,EWSGBUBORF,EWSGBUBORF!RJ,OJUMWDRKBCNEWSGBUBORF!OJUMWDRKBBJWOCCREBUDSUEBRHCNKWDH,UFXAJUBEWCUOFKOKIWKBOUD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = E
HRPHCFCXOHOTGPWHWXBWHOPXIFTCPLRYHPTTVCITCLULREILPHCXLUZHUU-JHXRBVRXPHVOLRETGGHCLIFUHHIFUTKIHRPTGTVCJHOPFTZHCO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = E
OKHOYIFWOEIHMITAIFIKHYIKFMRLWPLHHIAKRHMOKUZRAGMOJMHMICGRLWPKRHGOWWOKUWCDIAIFTRKFODWIHMARLUMHOYIBKPOKIHIAKOHC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = E
CLXCGJFKBJVCHDCXPXKXDCQJRKJVHPWLHVHWCXVFDHUMOTXHVXHDXHVDXQCOXQFVXCJVXHWLHUMQCWJDWPMQFJDHDOWJMVHTXCJXDRJVWXFC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = T
CNESVCBYYBQVLWWZNZBQRWUVMWZNBSW,CNESVCBYYBQVLWWZNZBQRWUVMWZNQNN,QLWCNESVCSVWZRSHBWBYYBQVLWWZNZBQRWUVMWZNVXUWND.
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)
- “The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe and heal and bless are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IX (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=E C=F D=A E=L F=G G=X H=N I=T J=M K=D L=B M=J N=I O=K P=O Q=H R=P S=Z T=Y U=V V=W W=R X=U Y=S Z=Q
- “Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”— William Shakespeare, 1604, Othello, Act II. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=T C=M D=L E=R F=N G=U H=F I=B J=H K=S L=J M=V N=Y O=I P=K Q=G R=O S=P T=X U=A V=C W=E X=D Y=Z Z=Q
- “Enterprises of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being unite us and offer ample employment of our best powers.”— James A. Garfield, 1881, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=V B=G C=R D=Q E=D F=P G=F H=E I=M J=B K=Y L=A M=X N=K O=S P=T Q=Z R=N S=J T=O U=L V=U W=H X=I Y=C Z=W
- “In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1862, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=R B=A C=Y D=B E=K F=S G=W H=T I=E J=C K=N L=U M=H N=X O=I P=D Q=V R=O S=Z T=P U=G V=J W=L X=Q Y=M Z=F
- “The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1906, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=B B=P C=T D=N E=X F=I G=W H=A I=Q J=O K=M L=H M=U N=Z O=D P=L Q=S R=F S=Y T=G U=J V=R W=C X=E Y=V Z=K
- “We know all about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster.”— Mark Twain, 1894, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonCipher key: A=P B=A C=W D=R E=K F=M G=V H=G I=D J=Z K=C L=U M=F N=E O=Q P=X Q=B R=I S=N T=J U=S V=O W=T X=Y Y=L Z=H