Puzzle 1
Starter clue: B = I
UTUIVEUBTJUTIZJNUJGZWBTDRBJNUIHLSABLZTJBDDEPZJHMZYZAHSBTJHUPZUACPBZTMDNBS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 27
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: Y = E
QCSDJECMKSOPJNYVYJVUYDJCZEDMMPYXNYUIYNOYUUDQCDJECMEVJCJEKPYQKMSRKWYCZNPWV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Q = E
CQPQWWBQKDLHQVDKDZVBDZRQRNKWBQSBTYQTIBSRNDPLDESDKWBQNVDCL,TRDZVKVNQLHRBTYQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = E
MZTATFQSDPFLTABDKLWAQXQEBGTBLSGOAQYD,ISFADYLNKQATEQRT,YLNKQATFTDTANGTANZEQYD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: N = E
UBCKVFQROTRXN,VMKFDDNL'KLCWNGCGYVLNZUB,DZMWLRXNZVNZFUNRFKOTRJNLJBNGGNEUJNDNNU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: V = E
WGAVGYPUVLVWPPUGEJUPGYAFIQBIOUFWCGIJLVVIWVVQBIJYGMFYGMAECFYGMTVMAFIVIPTVFSV.
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)
- “An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”— Oscar Wilde, 1895, An Ideal HusbandCipher key: A=L B=I C=F D=S E=U F=J G=B H=O I=C J=T K=Y L=M M=D N=H O=X P=R Q=K R=W S=P T=N U=A V=Q W=G X=Z Y=V Z=E
- “Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=X B=K C=N D=C E=U F=B G=Q H=Z I=V J=O K=R L=G M=T N=S O=W P=H Q=A R=F S=Y T=J U=L V=P W=I X=M Y=E Z=D
- “We get the fonder of our houses if they have a physiognomy of their own, as our friends have.”— George Eliot, 1872, MiddlemarchCipher key: A=X B=H C=W D=O E=M F=C G=K H=D I=P J=L K=F L=N M=B N=I O=Q P=G Q=E R=S S=Y T=A U=Z V=R W=T X=J Y=V Z=U
- “A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.”— Alexander Pope, 1720, The Iliad of Homer (Pope's translation), Book IX. Line 725 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=D C=Y D=S E=L F=R G=M H=J I=B J=Q K=H L=I M=A N=T O=K P=F Q=O R=V S=U T=E U=X V=Z W=P X=C Y=W Z=G
- “This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”— William Shakespeare, 1595, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=H C=I D=M E=X F=U G=N H=Q I=K J=W K=S L=R M=Y N=E O=F P=Z Q=D R=O S=C T=L U=T V=B W=P X=V Y=G Z=A
- “Some of the best thought of mankind has long been seeking for a formula for permanent peace.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=M B=I C=L D=Y E=U F=A G=O H=X I=N J=G K=J L=B M=R N=Z O=D P=T Q=K R=V S=C T=P U=H V=E W=S X=Q Y=F Z=W