Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
MVGPUXZPQJUQCPHEXJMJ,TEQDEPZPVNAXSNMIUCJIAXGMIKSRPTEIZPJPPK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cryptograms Set 5
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: H = E
AEHAQNHOMLATGHFHJHBDHFBKATAEBRYTRHKHVCXTQHYRTOBRZAEMRTAEHQK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = E
OHPFHBZUHTHTDPDHVWTPTHOXFBZHCCWBTZBFOMWAMTPUIFHMPCTBUPVPXUHVIC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = E
ZABSZBUJSPNARXEJAZXEBTKPYAMJ;ZATEDERBSZBUJSPNARXEJAZXEKZABTKPYA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: L = E
BMJLTHPTLXLJLTZNTLKMULPRYMZYLT,ZYMFDYZYLCPBSPCHHILPAMUZYLOHLBJLH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: F = E
FKFTPZOFQFFBQXZLAOEMAQWJFCQNTFCOEMAQCEKCOXCUFCXXMFFSWFOQFZLZXMFTQ.
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)
- “True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 76 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=M C=K D=C E=H F=X G=U H=G I=A J=S K=N L=J M=T N=Y O=Q P=E Q=I R=F S=D T=W U=L V=R W=Z X=O Y=P Z=V
- “The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 127 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=I C=F D=V E=H F=D G=B H=E I=P J=C K=S L=Y M=A N=U O=W P=Q Q=R R=N S=X T=O U=J V=L W=Z X=M Y=K Z=G
- “We are often engaged in a new profession for which nature has not adapted us.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=C B=O C=S D=G E=Y F=R G=J H=E I=U J=B K=X L=K M=H N=Z O=W P=A Q=M R=V S=L T=N U=T V=D W=I X=P Y=Q Z=F
- “We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 294 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=A C=X D=N E=O F=G G=P H=B I=C J=S K=M L=J M=U N=K O=Q P=I Q=F R=T S=L T=D U=Y V=Z W=V X=H Y=R Z=W
- “Lovers are never tired of each other, though they always speak of themselves.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 312 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=L C=Y D=G E=B F=U G=Z H=S I=P J=V K=D L=E M=O N=I O=M P=A Q=J R=C S=W T=R U=F V=X W=Q X=N Y=H Z=T
- “Everyone seeks to find his pleasure and his advantage at the expense of others.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=I B=K C=A D=W E=D F=E G=Q H=J I=C J=L K=V L=F M=H N=U O=N P=Y Q=S R=Z S=X T=R U=G V=M W=P X=T Y=B Z=O