Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = E
ZNGOWUGWTHMVZEFGEVVEDCOK,EQZNGDXHWIEZKWTDGQ,ZNGTGXIWTVMTTGIEQSEQHMVZEFG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 25
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: F = E
WGEFIQFUVFRYFXIBVFIUVFREMR,WGDFMUR!HZMBVZWZKFQUVXUYPQUHGMQUDFBGQFXIAJZZA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = T
RPRKQPHEYKQZRCSPBQPQAQCAEKPYQPQDYIUWJKQNPFRPBBRKJHRYCXTYJWHYBYUCWFKBRA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: U = E
RTUKULRIAELTYBUYLJWNUIAJUVBUVLWRFWHEL,ULJUNWYPPFXTUHXUYVUFIEHZYHMWHPIBU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: L = E
IWSLSLTECLWBSWCLXWTILFZLTXLNTHALNCWVTLOLIHAETNTHALLOLIWBHALNCTLNMAQWCI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = S
JVTEDWHPO-ETPPYEVSKRWVHPOE'YVKBSPEMAKDBJY,WDZPEVLYPEYCSEDIYVNYYPKRDKBPNOE!
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 love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 78 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=X C=P D=M E=I F=C G=E H=J I=R J=K K=Y L=D M=U N=H O=L P=Q Q=N R=B S=G T=F U=V V=S W=O X=A Y=W Z=T
- “License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that must first be wise and good.”— John Milton, 1673, On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, which followed upon my writing certain Treatises (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=W C=Z D=B E=C F=E G=I H=F I=N J=G K=V L=P M=R N=X O=Q P=U Q=S R=Y S=K T=J U=T V=H W=L X=A Y=M Z=O
- “It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III. Chap. I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=H C=N D=P E=U F=W G=X H=R I=C J=F K=S L=V M=Q N=L O=J P=T Q=A R=I S=G T=B U=K V=Z W=O X=D Y=E Z=Y
- “The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love.”— Louisa May Alcott, 1868, Little WomenCipher key: A=F B=V C=Z D=J E=U F=Y G=Q H=N I=O J=P K=B L=S M=D N=C O=K P=L Q=M R=T S=X T=H U=E V=R W=I X=W Y=A Z=G
- “Some men are of more consequence in their own eyes than in the eyes of their neighbors.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=H B=F C=R D=K E=A F=Q G=D H=T I=S J=Z K=X L=E M=G N=I O=Y P=V Q=B R=L S=M T=N U=J V=W W=O X=C Y=P Z=U
- “How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!”— William Shakespeare, 1595, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=G C=M D=I E=S F=X G=P H=V I=C J=H K=N L=F M=B N=A O=R P=E Q=Z R=D S=U T=W U=J V=O W=L X=Q Y=T Z=K