Puzzle 1
Starter clue: B = E
SIZTLNBUZORLBQBOA.VNUFDRHBOCOBZASPRIITSLXNOSIZOXSBO;AXBWGBLBBRONBOATSLXNOTBBA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 28
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: J = E
HGJGUKHGMAREDOG,KNHGOJUHOEJRJUHGHGJOGUZJ,XMAHUBYNRPUPJURZKGNOQJANRPBMSJAOVUZJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: L = E
CWILPBEMYPYSXGYBXL;BZKGYBXL,HSPYCWILBPGPTSQL,GWWZPBEMYPPYLGHLLPJSISCSPSLGWQCSQL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: D = E
LADZODUQXIDCTOCMDGQGSOCMGSW.PDUIDAUZZGDIGSLADZUQQGCSPDTDDOLAUSGSLAULPDGSQZGID.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = E
OCXKVTEPUUNJXSGECJYVNXVFEOXNXVSGXOXNSVK,PUPSXTXDTJOCOCXKVTEPUSVOFNXVSGPUBPNVKE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: D = E
ZWCEYDMWALWXDEARYYDSGPWVHKZDRUMVGYA,WZXQRAXGLWZXIRZXTDDHRZUAMGEHXLWIDEATYRDZXA.
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)
- “Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.”— John Selden, 1689, Table Talk, Friends (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=E C=U D=J E=Z F=G G=W H=M I=L J=V K=X L=R M=P N=I O=S P=C Q=B R=A S=O T=F U=N V=K W=Y X=H Y=Q Z=D
- “The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1770, The Deserted Village, Line 13 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=L C=Y D=U E=B F=Q G=H H=T I=J J=E K=W L=Z M=O N=I O=S P=G Q=P R=N S=V T=C U=A V=M W=X X=F Y=K Z=D
- “Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”— John Dryden, 1700, Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=A C=L D=B E=U F=K G=S H=W I=V J=C K=D L=E M=G N=Z O=X P=T Q=F R=Q S=I T=R U=Y V=P W=O X=M Y=H Z=N
- “The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 259 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=K C=O D=E E=Y F=M G=I H=Z I=R J=D K=B L=T M=V N=Q O=L P=W Q=S R=X S=N T=F U=A V=C W=G X=U Y=J Z=P
- “The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=C B=M C=H D=B E=S F=U G=D H=K I=G J=I K=L L=V M=Q N=R O=T P=O Q=Z R=Y S=N T=W U=F V=A W=X X=E Y=P Z=J
- “Nature has made us irrevocably neighbors, and wisdom and kind feeling should make us friends.”— Grover Cleveland, 1886, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=S B=X C=T D=E E=U F=J G=O H=L I=K J=Z K=Y L=M M=H N=Q O=P P=C Q=W R=I S=V T=F U=G V=B W=A X=D Y=R Z=N