Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = E
UYOCRIWBEWOMZRZMJSIEXBWWS,EYRQSWWAEWRAJRIEYNQPIZASJMO;EWEWTLIEWNRYKBWOAWZTTIJJLWZS,-MYIEIEZIEWAZTTWLIEWIZYTJSTJMO.
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Easy Cryptograms Set 63
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 = O
AYFZOFLEATPFREANEBFRAYGEQEVEQAYHLGEAOFGEOLQYXLPAOQEQFGNOAXAMMOFGGQYZXQYAOQEQFGAOFYROALRBQYZVMAYEBFQOPVGEOQZBEG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = I
AUSICDDKCWXTWRDCWRNUPHDCFHNGHQCBNSHUKGSVCDCNA,IGCOGGTYTOTDVWHYYUKYZCBCNTWXTIUBDXUKUNGHBPDHYYCWRYTNNHWXCWRSZUWCN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: J = E
OWJ[TSVLDJ]VJMDSVJOCVBDPWCKEOLBVNZHCOOCPJ;OWJYSFFWCTJJSLWJVBDLYCVEESRRSXDFLSJOLBYVJOLFJYSLW,...BVSKLJVKCFESRRSXDFLSJO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: U = T
USFGBDDBYWKUAEDKBUFTZUWTFBMLEUUECTBUF,IWUUECTBUFCSZUAEWVFZL;LEUUEZDDFYUAEWTTFZGFT,IWUUEZDDFYUSBVJTFYBMFKAZMAEWCBMS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: F = E
GFZNJSMOPFFAFRQNPJEYVYKRZDEJPDJEFVKYQJSYAEVFZ,RYO,ZXFYOVYKANFORTAJKFANFE,ZNJSMOOFXREARAYVKNA,RZVYAJDJEFVKYQJSYAEVFZ.
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)
- “King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear, - With that he called the tailor lown.”— William Shakespeare, 1604, Othello, Act II. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=P C=G D=V E=H F=J G=F H=Q I=T J=O K=X L=D M=W N=M O=N P=U Q=B R=S S=R T=L U=K V=Z W=E X=Y Y=I Z=A
- “One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.”— James K. Polk, 1845, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=O B=H C=L D=Q E=T F=E G=S H=W I=Z J=K K=X L=A M=P N=F O=R P=J Q=I R=C S=D T=B U=Y V=U W=V X=M Y=N Z=G
- “You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.”— Izaak Walton, 1653, The Complete Angler, Part I. Chap. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=R C=I D=L E=Z F=K G=H H=E I=W J=X K=F L=Q M=J N=T O=C P=B Q=V R=G S=U T=A U=O V=M W=N X=D Y=S Z=P
- “She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, . . . or internal difficulties.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1580, Essays, Book II, Chap. XI. Of Cruelty (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=O C=A D=U E=D F=L G=Z H=P I=K J=E K=N L=T M=Q N=M O=S P=G Q=X R=F S=I T=V U=B V=R W=H X=C Y=W Z=Y
- “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=Y B=I C=W D=F E=O F=E G=D H=X I=B J=P K=L L=N M=S N=Q O=K P=V Q=G R=Z S=H T=R U=T V=M W=U X=J Y=C Z=A
- “We should meet each morning as from foreign countries, and, spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign countries.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=T B=Q C=X D=F E=R F=E G=W H=Z I=K J=O K=G L=J M=L N=H O=D P=M Q=C R=A S=U T=Y U=B V=I W=V X=P Y=N Z=S