Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
CEKORGDKWZDCWWGPTCKPKWHDNTPJJYPVPZVJPLPIDEIWGPYUJIPKWKWDQQPZPI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Edmund Burke Cryptograms Set 2
5 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: Y = N
PWXLWAYEDIJDPLKGLGZLS,WYQKYLWAYWJZYPGZWLPZE,DYFWUDIWYDLWAYXAEFDYFHDGGKY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = O
FJDFPJKWPPTDNPDDVEDUKOULNDFDBNJUWNQKRDTJIJUPDDVZOXVKOULNDNRJWUOTXJBNDUB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: C = E
RCIFOEOTYERRMCDIUWEOWKWQCHEFCIOPWFKPPCOPKYOGOPCFWQCQKKNUKNIUYEOEUQHGRWEWGPC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
VSOISQOAZIVNOWBTQQ,VWTBAONO,GDBTEBZOCNTWBQO,VEFEIBLOBZVNFOEOFTEBIBZOGIEOIKJVEZIIF.
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 (5 solutions)
- “In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.”— Edmund Burke, 1770, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, Vol. I. p. 516 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=Q C=I D=A E=N F=J G=H H=M I=D J=L K=S L=X M=F N=Y O=U P=E Q=G R=C S=V T=W U=O V=P W=T X=K Y=B Z=R
- “Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.”— Edmund Burke, 1775, Speech on Conciliation with America, Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. II. p. 116 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=Y C=Z D=A E=L F=D G=R H=B I=G J=S K=E L=T M=K N=W O=J P=F Q=V R=Q S=H T=P U=M V=X W=I X=C Y=N Z=U
- “People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”— Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. III. p. 274 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=S C=G D=O E=F F=P G=Z H=X I=V J=E K=W L=D M=J N=T O=A P=L Q=Y R=H S=Q T=N U=R V=K W=I X=C Y=U Z=B
- “Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”— Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. III. p. 335 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=Z C=E D=C E=I F=R G=U H=M I=A J=K K=O L=J M=B N=F O=N P=D Q=H R=L S=X T=G U=S V=Y W=T X=Q Y=W Z=V
- “A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”— Edmund Burke, 1775, Speech on Conciliation with America, Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. II. p. 117 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=T C=G D=U E=N F=D G=B H=Q I=O J=M K=F L=Y M=Z N=R O=E P=K Q=L R=V S=P T=I U=J V=A W=S X=C Y=X Z=H