Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = E
AFWMCKVCMDMWMCUBCMTFZMVPOFUOMC,UOFNEOUOMRVAYVRKKQMVSFZUOMHKMAWMK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 21
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
LZGVKVZHWUKWQKUYKTHWPQHPV,SPFHHF,JGPRKLHAAFHRHWTHKEWHRVHHQGPFAKTH?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = E
WDBDPFODJMEUHDAWKOQNDABCCFBEGFOSKFBQHSBHABSKFKMFPSBAFDJKMFAWEDW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = E
FMSNTGISIHGHLTKGEFHIFWFMSHFMGEISTTINZEQFSHLSINTSILBNGUNKITGNOLB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: K = E
TEMLKMAHBKMETYEH,LKNMGAUKMAHBKMEKRK,MXKKHBKIYELXYNBVOGACMALTGXXZR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: C = H
JELRPCOPEZJFGCUNCCOQQRZXPEPCRROZMUXXQWZGUPCPCRPCIROMEKPCFMRXPUZF.
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)
- “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=L B=I C=R D=N E=G F=O G=B H=M I=J J=X K=S L=Q M=E N=U O=H P=C Q=P R=Y S=K T=D U=T V=A W=V X=Z Y=W Z=F
- “What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?”— John Adams, 1797, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=L B=J C=X D=B E=U F=D G=A H=E I=K J=C K=O L=W M=Z N=Y O=Q P=N Q=M R=S S=I T=V U=F V=T W=R X=P Y=G Z=H
- “No lover of his country would deliberately calculate the value of the Union.”— James K. Polk, 1848, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=U B=L C=D D=O E=I F=E G=B H=C I=X J=F K=T L=Z M=H N=W O=R P=V Q=Y R=J S=A T=P U=S V=M W=N X=Q Y=K Z=G
- “Our interests and those of our southern neighbors are in reality identical.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Z B=L C=V D=X E=H F=O G=T H=S I=E J=K K=D L=A M=U N=I O=C P=Q Q=B R=M S=R T=N U=Y V=W W=F X=P Y=J Z=G
- “Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1764, The Traveller, Line 327 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=H C=K D=Z E=R F=W G=A H=T I=L J=G K=E L=D M=I N=F O=M P=Q Q=J R=Y S=X T=P U=C V=U W=V X=S Y=O Z=B
- “Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=X B=J C=H D=Z E=O F=Y G=W H=M I=R J=L K=F L=V M=D N=C O=A P=T Q=P R=E S=B T=Q U=I V=K W=U X=S Y=G Z=N