Puzzle 1
Starter clue: R = O
VRKTSATPTVPKJRCMLYURWCERWVKLXYRVVKAXTEAVKLYBTXVRKRNMTYRDLYLRY;XVLNNNAXXLXLVVKAXTEAVKLYBTXVRKTSAETMARYAGRCURWCXANG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 65
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: Q = E
YQBEUQPCJQRCEPNQEIIQENXWERXCACDRBQDEPRRBERRITQXASXUXSTENDIQQSCJPEAACRQKXHRYXRBCTRQPCACJXPHQPTIXRMEASXASQVQASQAPQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: L = E
MXIYOLLQAENKONBGLXYQMLFABT!GXFWNZLTIAQMQMLEWLLTXYAQEYOAKMQQMLQLFWLEQAQELOYONKEULMABT,NBTQMLEIAYQ-IABKLT,NZZXIEXYOAKMQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = A
GZGRXGVXGCNYJ,GRYVXGVCNYJFUWNRPFRLYVNGIKGWL;CAVOXLSLPSFLRYUXFIFU,GKKNPPFWLUNPKFPLGSLGUFVOLSLBSGRVLYVNXFZ,GRYXFUYLIAVJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: U = R
MDGRZWGUVFPUIGZQPUGL,GRVZTVUMRVSHDYFHPKZUDGLZBZWUQVZQSVXVVCPFUVPGVUZQQZUGWYDGLBZURWHPYDGLGZQUZXQVUPYIBDYIRPQQDYVXX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: C = E
UMCLBUQGVRJPVCLMBVTGJLGJSFNBSSICEPQCF.UMCLBUQGVRJPVCLMBVTGJLGJSFNBSSJQICEPQCF.UMCLBUVMCXPQFGEACIUGQVMBVXCCAUBABIIGV.
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)
- “To have a catchword in your mouth is not the same thing as to hold an opinion; still less is it the same thing as to have made one for yourself.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=E B=G C=R D=P E=M F=K G=F H=X I=Z J=W K=H L=I M=D N=L O=Q P=C Q=J R=O S=V T=A U=Y V=T W=U X=S Y=N Z=B
- “We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=N B=H C=O D=F E=A F=B G=J H=S I=R J=M K=X L=G M=Y N=L O=K P=C Q=E R=T S=D T=U U=V V=P W=Z X=I Y=W Z=Q
- “How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight the tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged, arrows of light.”— William Cowper, 1782, Poems (1782), Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=N C=J D=Z E=S F=M G=C H=V I=W J=Y K=G L=E M=H N=A O=L P=K Q=T R=Q S=U T=D U=B V=X W=P X=O Y=F Z=R
- “A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him, and his deputy.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=U B=G C=B D=Z E=X F=I G=A H=Q I=P J=Y K=L L=E M=J N=O O=W P=F Q=K R=N S=R T=V U=S V=T W=C X=H Y=D Z=M
- “Without regard to party, the overwhelming majority of our people seek a greater opportunity for humanity to prosper and find happiness.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Z B=F C=K D=I E=C F=G G=T H=M I=D J=X K=J L=Y M=W N=B O=Q P=A Q=P R=H S=L T=V U=R V=E W=U X=S Y=N Z=O
- “She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=P B=A C=E D=B E=F F=D G=O H=J I=R J=U K=G L=W M=H N=C O=M P=I Q=N R=Q S=L T=Y U=S V=T W=X X=K Y=Z Z=V