Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = S
BVABUAOCVHAEVHOWABYHHACVTPABVTHJYCTVCRVHUTFHBUCZVTHJYCHGWEE.JYCUTAUPJTWHAWHJYCBVEZVC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Edmund Burke Cryptograms Set 3
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: J = E
ASZBPKNAKBJYROSRGJOSNJSYJCXJJPIYJQACOR,SKYROSRKPLZSQQPKJ,AKROJXJSQZALIPXRTKJLSKYMSAKLPIPROJXL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: S = E
BTSFHYMFKTBKEPWSMXCJXS,BTSWTSPQISXSHWSMXHPBJMHZ,BTSHFEZSMXUPHCAZSHBJUSHBPHITSEMJWSHBSEQEJZSJZKMHS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
XFGIKJLNGIARNKWIG,QFGURRLNPYQJYYRAWJQG;GOYGQFGHXWOOTJOORIGKHRIG,JIPIMWQWGLYJASWTWAGWIJARIQGNMQWKOGYQSPUUOG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: V = E
CNNXUWVYLFVLP,-SLAVVA,VWVYHZIFCLKVLVGSPCLAVLEUHFVLP,VWVYHWSYPIVCLAVWVYHOYIAVLPCQP,-SRGUILAVAULQUFOYUFSRVCLAKCYPVY.
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)
- “He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”— Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. III. p. 453 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=H C=R D=C E=L F=D G=K H=S I=J J=O K=Q L=M M=F N=B O=W P=G Q=Z R=V S=X T=N U=A V=E W=I X=Y Y=U Z=P
- “I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”— Edmund Burke, 1757, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful, On the Sublime and Beautiful. Sect. XIV. vol. 1. p. 118 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=C C=G D=K E=X F=Y G=W H=B I=F J=E K=N L=S M=P N=V O=H P=O Q=L R=T S=A T=U U=Z V=Q W=J X=R Y=D Z=M
- “The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.”— Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. III. p. 331 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=T C=L D=J E=R F=U G=X H=N I=D J=I K=G L=V M=O N=Q O=Z P=A Q=P R=K S=E T=H U=M V=W W=C X=F Y=B Z=S
- “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”— Edmund Burke, 1770, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, Vol. I. p. 526 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=Q C=Z D=V E=X F=H G=E H=Y I=N J=A K=B L=D M=P N=M O=L P=U Q=T R=O S=R T=F U=G V=K W=I X=W Y=S Z=J
- “All government, - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, - is founded on compromise and barter.”— Edmund Burke, 1775, Speech on Conciliation with America, Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. II. p. 169 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=X C=A D=Q E=J F=M G=F H=Y I=U J=W K=B L=N M=K N=L O=P P=T Q=C R=S S=I T=Z U=O V=E W=V X=G Y=R Z=H