Puzzle 1
Starter clue: E = N
IXKWEXZZJWYIXLWAZJWDCITPQMEGQEXLFZEXZ,MEGMIIZJWFAOXZMEDFUIMZFEEMNWU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Expert Cryptograms Set 75
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: B = E
KRBQNNDYHCQCNGDRBVO,MUSNAVSKCIABVO,PMKRCNVOLNYCBVASBOCHEQBAMSRMLRBVO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = T
PSJOLOFSYUIRXGJSOFHJUDSYQXRSO,KBOFIQQOFHBJCYIROBOLSPQSEH,VIMHYAVLUYV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: W = E
PWPXYUSTRGBRAVWSUWMWXHATLNEYSXVWRAGMWRYTASTPRMGSUWWDSXAVSXTATLLTMVW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: P = H
CPYLROIPYZPJTKFTLTCPTDGPHDDGLXTQGNQGEKGLCBJCPHLCPYLROIPYZPJTKFTPTDG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: H = E
XBVQUVBTXMHLVKHGXLQHKJSIH(RQZBVXMCTHHKBUYQLIMXECABRQGHESQKMHVBLAKHHK).
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)
- “Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847, Poems, Blight (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=Z C=P D=Y E=N F=I G=D H=Q I=L J=H K=V L=W M=A N=M O=B P=C Q=K R=G S=X T=U U=S V=J W=E X=O Y=F Z=T
- “The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.”— Alexander Pope, 1711, An Essay on Criticism, Part III. Line 53 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=E C=L D=K E=M F=J G=C H=U I=Y J=Q K=T L=S M=I N=O O=D P=W Q=B R=H S=N T=X U=G V=A W=Z X=V Y=F Z=P
- “Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=I C=Q D=C E=V F=H G=B H=E I=A J=R K=W L=Y M=K N=J O=T P=F Q=L R=N S=O T=Z U=S V=M W=G X=D Y=U Z=X
- “We wish to advance the reign of justice and reason toward the extinction of force.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=N B=V C=L D=X E=U F=Q G=D H=G I=K J=P K=Z L=F M=R N=J O=B P=W Q=M R=A S=T T=O U=H V=C W=E X=I Y=S Z=Y
- “Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.”— Plautus, 195 BC, Mostellaria, Act I. Sc. 3, 40. (197) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=L C=T D=P E=Q F=D G=E H=A I=W J=Y K=U L=N M=V N=F O=S P=H Q=R R=G S=X T=O U=B V=J W=Z X=M Y=I Z=C
- “Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed of knightly counsel and heroic deed).”— John Ferriar, 1798, Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania. Line 121 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=O C=Y D=X E=L F=Q G=S H=E I=G J=P K=D L=I M=H N=J O=V P=Z Q=N R=U S=A T=M U=F V=R W=B X=T Y=K Z=W