Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = T
FDXBJXIFXOFGRQKQXOOHRTTQNFARQKFDXLQBJIFXULT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 6
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: K = E
RPQEKKT!WUWQIHKYUEKUPWYH,XKERSKOZARGTREKURTREK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = E
QTRFIYPJBGPJBTUFNIPWQBZYWRPBZGTJXAIWBSPTBJCW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = E
MICRJIROQIRUSIRBDPQINGFSFIVVUCRFGVIJIQVAPNIF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = O
ZQOOPYTH,QXCJAGIYOOPVVIRAYPJAGLZLYVXCQXCIRAXAE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = T
EQHWHYDWHSXLFHBPLPLCKPEXRBJEHW,YWDPEX,GKEVBJTCX.
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 greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=B B=G C=X D=H E=C F=T G=K H=W I=A J=R K=D L=U M=Y N=O O=S P=Z Q=N R=I S=V T=L U=F V=M W=J X=E Y=Q Z=P
- “Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part V (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=U C=Q D=Z E=L F=X G=M H=G I=A J=Y K=E L=W M=J N=K O=D P=H Q=S R=O S=V T=P U=T V=C W=I X=B Y=N Z=F
- “With our near neighbors we must remain close friends.”— William McKinley, 1901, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=L B=E C=D D=Y E=K F=H G=A H=V I=O J=N K=P L=J M=Q N=B O=Z P=R Q=W R=T S=F T=I U=G V=X W=S X=C Y=U Z=M
- “We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=P B=L C=H D=M E=Z F=N G=I H=B I=E J=V K=U L=Y M=W N=K O=G P=O Q=R R=A S=D T=C U=T V=S W=F X=J Y=X Z=Q
- “Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend and who not.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=O B=Q C=D D=Z E=T F=X G=U H=K I=W J=Y K=G L=R M=P N=B O=L P=S Q=A R=H S=V T=C U=J V=E W=M X=N Y=I Z=F
- “Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.”— William Shakespeare, 1600, As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=I C=L D=O E=T F=G G=B H=E I=X J=N K=U L=A M=J N=C O=Q P=S Q=H R=W S=M T=D U=Z V=K W=R X=Y Y=F Z=P