Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = T
LGLFHNWPHGPWAVCGVFPPGDPHKGDVW'FHKGDVW,GDHZDLEFPSQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Cryptograms Set 6
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: W = E
PNWJWSLPCKLVMWYPYRAPNWKRLAESPCRAYRKPNWAWOWYYSMT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: I = O
LALVFDFLHMXVVIHIKPLVQIDAICHIPTIGZIPHKZIDFHIASXZ'V.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Y = E
QLYQIBYINAYYOHBZHAIBY,VBXQLYQIBYINLVWHBZHAVBIQLYJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = E
ZKDIMEEDWDUJDVDZTDDUXDWCAUCMCUAZMUTMCIALVBZMUQWZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: O = E
XJQOCOELFDJZH,XJQOCOELNRRH,PMHZFAOAQKBMOEHOCOEIQEO.
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)
- “It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=J B=Q C=Y D=H E=M F=S G=T H=A I=Z J=D K=U L=I M=C N=G O=K P=E Q=F R=V S=L T=P U=W V=O W=R X=B Y=X Z=N
- “The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=N B=P C=I D=Q E=D F=G G=X H=J I=M J=B K=F L=U M=R N=H O=C P=T Q=Z R=O S=A T=Y U=W V=L W=E X=K Y=S Z=V
- “It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your own from another's.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=T B=C C=K D=M E=G F=A G=U H=N I=O J=X K=F L=I M=L N=Z O=B P=W Q=D R=J S=H T=Y U=P V=S W=Q X=E Y=V Z=R
- “The tone of seeking is one, and the tone of having is another.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=S B=N C=Y D=B E=P F=U G=W H=I I=O J=R K=C L=H M=X N=F O=K P=M Q=T R=Q S=Z T=J U=L V=A W=V X=D Y=E Z=G
- “The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=O B=U C=S D=E E=F F=G G=X H=Y I=D J=C K=H L=M M=I N=J O=Q P=L Q=A R=V S=Z T=W U=N V=B W=R X=P Y=K Z=T
- “Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847, Poems, Voluntaries (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=Q C=V D=G E=R F=I G=P H=S I=M J=H K=N L=F M=U N=A O=E P=J Q=O R=L S=D T=K U=B V=X W=Y X=W Y=Z Z=T