Puzzle 1
Starter clue: O = E
LAMBIYILAJDQMVFLAYOKYMBJIGOQLKYDOGMBYKXSCVDVQOOGMBY;PVDLQOYOXDOGMBYDQMVFLAIGOQMD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cryptograms Set 8
5 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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: M = A
IYOZTDCKFESFTVNWKTDFIZMFMNENOWMFDEMCFTDOMWKWYBYEMJMWKTWNF,JDFQMPYNFMOGYEVYLFMOIYLMW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = E
UGXXDWDASQAHDYMAUSMUCGHFXDJXDSNUXSFDYVVIDFQTDLUADQMNDQXUNSFDYVVSFQSCQBFQWWDASUGMYAHUAMDRGDAHD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = E
IRTZTLMOVTYJEKTVIMLYTVUTXRLURMTZFTMIJOGGZJFTJZIJUJVNTBV,IRTZTLMOMLYTVUTJSNLMUZTILJVOVNJSZTMGTUI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: U = E
CUWKJHGIZUSIXGAUQNHWUJHZLZXUYIWCKUYDKUXZLSHGDWSZUPJZYCXDKDKUE,SYIDKUASZUGUWWDKSYDKUXZVJJITHSGXDXUW.
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 (5 solutions)
- “Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 22 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=L C=F D=T E=Q F=M G=V H=W I=O J=Y K=A L=P M=I N=Z O=E P=B Q=R R=G S=D T=X U=K V=U W=C X=N Y=S Z=J
- “We should try to find out what air is natural to us and never abandon it, but make it as perfect as we can.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=Q B=V C=L D=U E=R F=T G=P H=G I=W J=B K=D L=C M=A N=I O=S P=K Q=M R=X S=Y T=O U=Z V=F W=N X=J Y=E Z=H
- “Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 180 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Y C=M D=E E=B F=H G=U H=C I=W J=G K=X L=D M=S N=F O=Z P=J Q=A R=Q S=T T=V U=O V=L W=P X=R Y=I Z=K
- “There is an eloquent silence which serves to approve or to condemn, there is a silence of discretion and of respect.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=X B=M C=B D=K E=Q F=V G=P H=Y I=T J=O K=U L=I M=S N=D O=A P=J Q=G R=H S=F T=E U=C V=N W=Z X=W Y=L Z=R
- “We should readily excuse our friends when their faults are born with them, and they are less than their good qualities.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=Y B=P C=W D=T E=M F=V G=L H=U I=D J=O K=H L=F M=K N=C O=J P=B Q=X R=Z S=A T=Q U=E V=G W=S X=I Y=N Z=R