Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = E
CPKGWYYMAAMHCWSECIGMHKJKHILMINSXVEHYCMHEQKCPHMWVPCPKQKYKOCEJKAHMOKQQKQMGKXWONCEMSONSNYMSKQKOWHKCMWQCPEQYKNXKHQPEA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Easy Cryptograms Set 66
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: A = I
SWJ'CQYHBOYQCGMWSBEYGEEHMPAJOQHQYWAMAJEKAJGQAHJ,QYWAMPACEHBMCWGJPCTWWEYWCGEEHMPAJOQHQYWAMKWGMJAJOGJPAJRBCWPHTAJAHJC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: V = T
HBKBKCBHVJEVVLQJEZXBVJALDTZTLZEZFVLWLOOLNJTKNJLQLHHBQVUVJABHHLHTUEUQLZUTUVBZVNTVJWHBBFLKEUTVTUVLDBHUTUVTZVJABHHLH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: D = A
UWPHLVQBGDMEPEOLQLEQANDAGNVQDUDQEPHDQRDOOVDHVBLQANDAFNDHDFAVH[DMDQDJANEH],NVBVMVHIVBAENDIVNLMUVHLAMNDQBMEUVXWDXXEGVB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: L = A
LULMMJBWJSCLGG!LUYNQOOVQMQYBQEOLEEOVLO'GHJJY,LUYLEEOVLO'GXLDM;HDKQSQFIOBVLOOVDGMDFLUYFJIUY,OLPQLEEOVQMQGOOVQGIUHJQGMJIUY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Z = E
RIRJFJZYFNIKXZUSZRBZICRJ,IKK,RLLZARTIZNQHCZDICZKSSTJRKDTURJZJ,HCTIBRUIFZDTIFUZCTJVRBZDIKLTDIKKXXKJZIKZBZUQHUKDVYFNTSI.
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 full opportunity for every boy and girl to rise through the selective processes of education can alone secure to us this leadership.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=P B=K C=T D=W E=I F=M G=F H=R I=Y J=V K=E L=B M=O N=A O=C P=H Q=S R=Z S=N T=Q U=J V=G W=U X=D Y=L Z=X
- “Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, Essays, Of Custom and Education (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=U C=S D=Q E=C F=Z G=A H=O I=X J=N K=L L=K M=R N=V O=G P=D Q=T R=F S=M T=P U=J V=Y W=E X=B Y=H Z=W
- “Remember that to change thy opinion and to follow him who corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=Y B=E C=B D=P E=A F=D G=X H=R I=Q J=H K=M L=O M=J N=W O=L P=K Q=C R=U S=Z T=I U=S V=T W=F X=G Y=V Z=N
- “My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merits handsomely allowed.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. VIII. Chap. III. 1781 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=D C=J D=A E=O F=C G=W H=R I=V J=U K=B L=I M=S N=H O=P P=F Q=N R=K S=Q T=Z U=M V=E W=Y X=L Y=G Z=X
- “A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.”— Edmund Waller, 1645, Poems, On a Girdle (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=W C=P D=I E=L F=B G=S H=G I=U J=O K=V L=A M=R N=Y O=T P=K Q=E R=Z S=M T=J U=N V=H W=C X=F Y=D Z=Q
- “It is useful to perceive this, too, immediately when the occasion arises, what virtue nature has given to man to oppose to every wrongful act.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=D B=V C=H D=N E=Q F=U G=J H=W I=T J=S K=O L=M M=X N=L O=K P=Z Q=Y R=I S=C T=A U=R V=G W=B X=P Y=F Z=E