Puzzle 1
Starter clue: T = E
SNTPQTHFXPRWTDWITPHTGIDASDAHPSN,OZSANTRSNTFHAHPSNFGDRXTMFRBITBFSOZHRGIFMTPXDRGZQFRUYIPQT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 32
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: X = E
SOSDJLFJFMRXLDWOMBXOXFRSHXKVXOVXFDVX[HLOZFX]VLDTFMCXBOMVSRLESHBTLFXHOMFLRXFQSPXDDDOXTRMOVXF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: V = A
VMWLGNWAVL,LPFTW,GSVGNJBWTGJSWVFSEATWNCGVNY,VLKUENNTZWVYAJFWELVAELPGWGSVLSWUENNTGVLKGJELVAJLGS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: V = E
OHNVOPDNVVRVCRAVCUVWTPPCTPWVADOZXPCOAAEOZBTZXZCPPCWTZBTZPCSVARAVWWZVWWYVDCNVPSVRCUVNWCDVQTA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: P = E
KPSFPTISSISEPFBJJYBDPILSJCPFYTGXBGFYSYFUPGYFPTSX:KIRPYXTISKIRPHEYOEBKSPJXHEPTYSBKSPJBSYITLYTGX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Y = E
HBYZKBQLJTSSRWKQZCWXLLQTZTZJYKXNYLWTLLYLLQTZTMKBYBRVXZVQZP,EQNYKBYETUYTMCTEPQKFYJTVYLQZLXKQXFEY.
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 American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1901, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=W B=D C=J D=O E=V F=I G=S H=R I=L J=Z K=X L=Q M=K N=H O=B P=A Q=M R=N S=T T=E U=G V=Y W=P X=C Y=F Z=U
- “It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.”— Pliny the Elder, 77, Natural History (Naturalis Historia), Book VII. Sect. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=D C=V D=S E=K F=R G=Z H=N I=J J=F K=W L=A M=O N=G O=T P=L Q=C R=M S=I T=P U=B V=H W=Y X=E Y=X Z=U
- “A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”— William Shakespeare, 1595, Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=V C=F D=J E=I F=R G=T H=X I=Q J=O K=D L=N M=G N=L O=Z P=U Q=Y R=C S=H T=S U=W V=A W=E X=B Y=K Z=P
- “A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=L B=K C=O D=F E=M F=C G=X H=G I=Y J=Z K=Q L=U M=J N=R O=A P=T Q=V R=P S=H T=I U=W V=E W=S X=D Y=B Z=N
- “Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”— William Shakespeare, 1609, Sonnets, CXVI (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=A C=U D=G E=H F=M G=D H=W I=O J=R K=L L=F M=B N=Q O=C P=E Q=Y R=V S=T T=N U=P V=K W=J X=S Y=I Z=X
- “When this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold it becomes insatiable.”— William Henry Harrison, 1841, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Y B=H C=G D=J E=L F=B G=Q H=W I=Z J=C K=T L=S M=F N=K O=X P=D Q=I R=U S=R T=O U=V V=M W=P X=A Y=E Z=N