Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = E
YZHDHTDHWHQJHLJAHQZLQLGABRLYCHTXZTVHBLWCHERFALKHBQZHRYZHIALKHRLALRFHD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Expert Cryptograms Set 77
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: N = E
SNHWNNTZVJMJGQ,MICGNNXIQUNBUNTIMJWNJDIQTUWNUTMIOVAJJAUPKWAHWQUWNTGYALN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = A
TCFCFOQVUECBQKJEXUNVPNCUEA'GQVXBSLUNCEANGXTASKHKFNNFTACFEKFYUCHKGAQNFE?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = E
GZLHLVHQJXMRLKR;BYFBCXKRVZUF;OVFMBYJRRFHXHF;CFFRTFJULMVMEFTXHULDMBLMHTLZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: W = E
PGWIFCWFTKAVPOSWOVVOQZIN,OEPGWQUKFLOPNFTQWE,PGWTWULFTVATTWLOEHOEKAVPOSW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: N = E
LQNUMMENVGTLTHMBZTONBIQYDINJQGIQJGXXNVOXYGDMZBPGBYIXNTYDCBNWNYXDNJMDNT.
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)
- “There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 71 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=D C=B D=R E=I F=G G=U H=E I=Y J=P K=V L=O M=X N=Z O=C P=K Q=W R=N S=J T=A U=Q V=M W=F X=S Y=T Z=H
- “Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquillity which others give.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=I B=X C=D D=P E=M F=Z G=S H=C I=N J=L K=W L=V M=A N=E O=Q P=Y Q=O R=J S=B T=R U=T V=U W=H X=K Y=G Z=F
- “Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?”— John Milton, 1637, Comus, Line 244 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=L C=A D=K E=T F=N G=S H=V I=Z J=X K=I L=B M=P N=E O=Y P=F Q=M R=W S=D T=C U=R V=O W=Q X=U Y=G Z=J
- “Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IX. 7 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=C C=K D=W E=D F=E G=B H=T I=F J=A K=M L=O M=N N=J O=Q P=Z Q=V R=P S=G T=R U=S V=U W=X X=I Y=H Z=L
- “The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 78 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=K C=V D=W E=N F=O G=H H=G I=L J=D K=J L=R M=Z N=Y O=I P=T Q=M R=X S=C T=F U=A V=S W=E X=B Y=Q Z=P
- “The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=J B=R C=D D=N E=K F=Q G=I H=F I=C J=W K=Z L=T M=O N=E O=P P=M Q=H R=Y S=G T=S U=B V=X W=V X=L Y=A Z=U