Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = I
XBVALXKCAIWLTFVYVBICNOVZTAGFFANTAWUNXWLLINGCVONOVZTAGFFANHIXP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 20
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: S = E
QZMIMOSCSDWUOMWYESCDUCESTBUAYESFMOZ;QADMSOZMWYESEUCSUAYESESQDY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = T
FDFRMXMIFXNWNPKDSMDMXNZODSLXRLPALRMPPDSFZORMVLBNXXNZDNWVFLZKR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: P = N
IDWXPOYCIDPQGVLMBVOPYGVPXYOBPXUSGXEG,XPZJGEVXAGOYJOYIXUUWXPFOPZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: V = E
NJNOYNUJLTLOQBRRVUODSNWSWTROJNJLJVJSVVMWVEEVRWVTHBRVNPSXTUSTTC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: J = E
AJZPXEZKYJSHWJCLXWCQHMXQJHWEVWSAJAMPDLOKNJEOJWHOJDQWCKLNJHXWEV.
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)
- “Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=I B=V C=R D=Q E=X F=H G=T H=B I=E J=P K=F L=D M=L N=S O=Y P=K Q=J R=M S=Z T=W U=G V=O W=N X=A Y=C Z=U
- “A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=F B=Y C=P D=R E=H F=M G=W H=X I=V J=L K=J L=Q M=I N=K O=N P=U Q=A R=B S=E T=C U=O V=G W=S X=Z Y=T Z=D
- “It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.”— Terence, 160 BC, Adelphoe, Act V. Sc. 3, 18. (803) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=C C=W D=T E=B F=I G=Y H=U I=X J=K K=D L=E M=A N=O O=G P=L Q=P R=S S=H T=Q U=Z V=R W=F X=M Y=J Z=N
- “Humanity hungers for international peace, and we crave it with all mankind.”— Warren G. Harding, 1921, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=V B=O C=Y D=U E=C F=K G=E H=J I=H J=W K=X L=S M=F N=Q O=I P=N Q=G R=Z S=P T=B U=L V=R W=M X=A Y=T Z=D
- “It is virtuous manners which constitute the excellence of a neighborhood.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=P B=A C=D D=W E=L F=K G=J H=F I=Z J=T K=Q L=U M=X N=I O=S P=G Q=M R=N S=H T=O U=R V=E W=C X=B Y=V Z=Y
- “We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=W B=G C=N D=L E=T F=X G=J H=R I=B J=E K=A L=D M=O N=V O=H P=U Q=P R=Q S=F T=Z U=C V=Y W=I X=S Y=K Z=M