Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Q = O
VQKQNIVQNKYLPJKYVOQHQNKTLPCINYZ,QNBQPIOQHYOF,YOPQRJKYVIQZTFBYFZTVJIFBNJYI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 26
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: A = E
DBAUOJIRMAUSKAIW,-SKAIWUDUGBAIODIGWXUGW;IVAKKFN-VAAKUGZXIEAMFGANFGWOFRMEUGW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Q = L
GVLMTQQXZGVLPYFTLEBYZEJYFTGBJQNQZHJX,FJMTQQXZVQQYFTLEBYZEJYFTGBJQNJLHTJX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: V = E
FNERVNLXVTMJ,UYFHYVNLWEHDVGEHDEPNGVG,FHEUVKTZSFNNTZUUKVVZVUZNVFRVULVZWENGVG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: N = O
DHDJBIXXHNZKUIJNPIBKHIGDTANVGTIDQZENGZNNL,HNQDUIEVNAKTMAHNKTLSXNKHHZIIKGHZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: U = E
KGKXAKMXUUM,CPAUOUHBUXVCPNBCXDYGUJCXMYPUEHUXDU,VYOUKDDKQCXTKTKCXCXDYGUYVAUZ.
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)
- “No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”— Robert Burton, 1621, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=H C=Y D=Z E=Q F=T G=U H=F I=D J=E K=C L=B M=G N=R O=S P=L Q=O R=V S=K T=I U=M V=N W=P X=J Y=A Z=W
- “Their cause I plead, - plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.”— David Garrick, 1776, Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=H C=Q D=T E=K F=O G=N H=Z I=A J=C K=L L=X M=S N=W O=R P=J Q=V R=U S=P T=Y U=I V=F W=D X=M Y=B Z=G
- “Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=Z B=S C=J D=Q E=G F=H G=M H=V I=K J=E K=C L=N M=W N=F O=R P=Y Q=L R=U S=P T=I U=B V=A W=X X=D Y=T Z=O
- “A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.”— Lord Byron, 1819, Don Juan, Canto XV. Stanza 43 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=K C=Q D=M E=O F=A G=D H=R I=X J=G K=W L=Y M=N N=L O=J P=U Q=P R=V S=H T=I U=S V=E W=F X=B Y=C Z=T
- “It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=Y B=W C=P D=I E=B F=Q G=R H=T I=E J=S K=A L=D M=C N=O O=Z P=M Q=G R=X S=F T=N U=V V=U W=J X=L Y=K Z=H
- “A man had need, if he be plentiful in some kind of expense, to be as saving again in some other.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=H B=L C=I D=S E=X F=W G=M H=P I=C J=K K=A L=Q M=D N=U O=B P=F Q=V R=Y S=J T=G U=E V=T W=Z X=N Y=O Z=R