Puzzle 1
Starter clue: S = I
EDTHTUZXSEKPDSXDSBXUTZLTLPSEDCWJZQTSLBCERZURUCVRCWWK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cryptograms Set 3
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: E = A
KNNWQXEKPECKXKNQXDEVEUNTBYWEKYNUYCEFYUONGYUWQEKYKSOX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = T
CWBZVBQCBOCNQJECGNQUBDBCVQCADZYACAOCGZGXBKGDMCWBLQVP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: V = T
JMZGTATHMLVGIMWAFSTMFFJSVUKAVVALTSTPSVVKKALKJTSTVMLMFV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = E
KEDIMHAKXVKDEXVAPWWDHDUKODXUPUZV,IEPYEPKPVDXVFKMOPVKXQD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: D = A
DNDXRGYAJMXSODWFKMUAJYKWFXUFJJWYLUDNFWGDXGAJLFXFKDTWYO.
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)
- “The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 416 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=N C=O D=H E=T F=Q G=X H=V I=B J=D K=Y L=S M=U N=K O=P P=W Q=G R=F S=I T=E U=R V=M W=L X=C Y=Z Z=A
- “Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 226 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=L C=S D=P E=A F=K G=F H=C I=Z J=Q K=T L=X M=V N=O O=D P=H Q=R R=M S=U T=B U=N V=Y W=G X=E Y=I Z=W
- “The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 377 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=E C=T D=N E=L F=X G=O H=J I=Q J=U K=Y L=M M=D N=F O=S P=K Q=A R=Z S=C T=V U=P V=R W=H X=B Y=W Z=G
- “We can undertake business without turning it to our own interest.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=U B=L C=J D=Z E=V F=S G=A H=D I=K J=W K=O L=R M=E N=Q O=X P=G Q=F R=P S=I T=N U=H V=T W=B X=Y Y=M Z=C
- “The word taste has different meanings, which it is easy to mistake.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=D B=U C=Q D=E E=H F=Y G=P H=R I=W J=Z K=T L=J M=O N=B O=M P=I Q=K R=L S=X T=V U=N V=S W=F X=A Y=C Z=G
- “A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 96 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=X C=J D=A E=Y F=E G=H H=V I=P J=S K=F L=B M=U N=M O=R P=Z Q=D R=W S=G T=C U=L V=Q W=T X=N Y=O Z=K