Puzzle 1
Starter clue: V = T
VWJPXWELDEXVWJVBYVWMBJDEVJGYMAVEVWENJXWEAEIJKV,MDFVWJPXWEAEIJKVMBJDEVJGYMAVEVWENJXWEFJAKQWVKDKV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 33
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: C = A
VXMOQTEFRXBBYFYDCMTXE,HCNTMCITRMTHCEFICVXD,HCEFXULHOKXXF,CEFCRCEYHYRRCDPHXDXIICDPMOYPHCEVXMOFXYJTI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = I
BEGYJWBIBKGYJVEVBODH,ZUGDOOHGYJRMYXYLBFOEYVDYKURWBDLWBIBKOHUBP,RDHZRIKOUBIKBPORDHHOERQOGYJVYZDRQK?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: H = S
LCVJQKANHICQWHVQXRIUAFNUKQFH:LCVZVFVISSHNL,HCQFNUOQWZHVSGVHIUKMZANUOQULCVEIHHVZH-JALQMQRVIUKSQGVWH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Q = E
QGQMVYOIEQQWBUIBAUISAUGQWVAROAOWWARQHQOTAUETWBQIAUYQIABUIARQXZMWCXQUNRWQBBAROIOBUINWQWZGQWVOSAUZI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: C = E
ICWNDSBKHCJKMBFCPGSWCDSHYHMCAKWINCAQNCMHYJSBQWJHCZDHAIMQNQNCO,JAKQNCFJHCBCWWQNJAQNCMHEDDKXSJBMQMCW.
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)
- “They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=L B=R C=P D=N E=O F=D G=Q H=F I=V J=E K=I L=K M=A N=S O=M P=Y Q=G R=C S=X T=B U=Z V=T W=H X=W Y=U Z=J
- “Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and labor, can do much good, and as a necessary corollary they can both do evil.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1902, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=X B=F C=A D=R E=N F=D G=W H=C I=L J=V K=G L=U M=T N=P O=H P=Y Q=K R=S S=Z T=I U=M V=B W=Q X=O Y=E Z=J
- “If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act?”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=B B=I C=X D=N E=F F=Z G=Y H=D I=S J=U K=T L=G M=P N=Q O=E P=M Q=C R=A S=J T=K U=H V=R W=V X=L Y=O Z=W
- “The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=Y B=K C=H D=Q E=P F=W G=V H=S I=A J=B K=D L=T M=C N=I O=G P=J Q=O R=M S=L T=Z U=N V=E W=U X=F Y=X Z=R
- “Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”— James Russell Lowell, 1870, Among My Books, First Series. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=S C=D D=X E=F F=J G=V H=B I=N J=P K=Q L=Z M=R N=G O=A P=K Q=E R=H S=C T=U U=I V=Y W=L X=W Y=M Z=O
- “We should readily excuse our friends when their faults are born with them, and they are less than their good qualities.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=N B=L C=E D=O E=G F=Y G=C H=R I=W J=A K=D L=Z M=I N=H O=M P=X Q=T R=K S=U T=V U=P V=J W=S X=Q Y=F Z=B