Puzzle 1
Starter clue: J = E
VGJPUYJUAPQAJNLXVGJAJNZUAXJNVGNZJVSUANBUWDFGZNDJDVGNVEZUSGNZXJZVUWLXJZDVNLXVGJBUZJSJVGQLHNKUWVVGJB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Friendship Cryptograms Set 34
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: T = E
KMTBTDGKMOYAAQKQWNPTWNDTVYKMMWFRKBYITGZWOKRYXFTWBVTZTIYNTZOTWZFNYIT:VBYKMTBRGZLTWOT,ZYKBGIWNRGZOYAAWZF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = E
VSCDLBOZVAAOZZCICVGOKSOGUQODLQVABMOSODMZ,DCLCDJHFZGOWFGMZCVGCNDNOJIFGO,EVLFZGOWFGMZLBONOJIFGOCIQFDPUDM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: K = O
JLIQKPOGIKBLRGLBWYBLLVKRILRU,UQWUARYKOOKJARFUQLKZARAKRKYKPBYBALRGIUQLDIQKPOGELOALCLUQWUUQLDYKOOKJKPBI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: J = E
LIFBZXJCALFCBFJHJFSOLLYQPZYLUULRQC;MIAATJSBFJATJRBCAEJLERJPCTLIRYXTLLCJALTBHJBHPCPAPZOBXKIBPZABZXJDPAT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = E
FNDQAQSJZYAHUYFIAWYA'WBFQL;COXUYAQWYALDQNAWFQXYAUFQL,DQLWYDBAWXYAUFQVWDQLUFIIQJXWXDZ,FROGGXYARHJWXFXOXADUDZ.
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 love of Life and the fear of Death are two famous phrases that grow harder to understand the more we think about them.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=F B=M C=J D=S E=G F=P G=H H=K I=Z J=E K=B L=N M=Y N=A O=C P=L Q=I R=Q S=W T=X U=O V=T W=U X=D Y=V Z=R
- “There with commutual zeal we both had strove in acts of dear benevolence and love: Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.”— Alexander Pope, 1726, The Odyssey of Homer (Pope's translation), Book IV. Line 241 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=R C=K D=W E=X F=D G=I H=J I=V J=G K=T L=P M=H N=L O=C P=Z Q=U R=S S=Y T=E U=Q V=B W=A X=F Y=O Z=N
- “Upon the success of our experiment much depends, not only as regards our own welfare, but as regards the welfare of mankind.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1905, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=C B=H C=O D=N E=B F=A G=R H=Y I=F J=L K=X L=T M=D N=W O=E P=K Q=M R=J S=P T=Z U=I V=U W=G X=Q Y=V Z=S
- “We should so render a free consent, that in following the opinion of our friends they should believe that they follow ours.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=I B=R C=V D=Y E=B F=G G=D H=M I=S J=W K=O L=E M=X N=J O=L P=U Q=H R=N S=Q T=K U=T V=C W=A X=Z Y=F Z=P
- “Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.”— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1775, The Rivals, Act IV. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=A C=S D=W E=P F=R G=J H=V I=U J=E K=Q L=O M=B N=M O=G P=I Q=K R=L S=Y T=H U=F V=X W=Z X=C Y=D Z=N
- “I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.”— John Dryden, 1685, Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode 29, Line 81 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=K C=B D=A E=X F=I G=F H=R I=L J=O K=Q L=D M=Z N=C O=U P=V Q=N R=P S=J T=M U=W V=G W=S X=T Y=H Z=Y