Puzzle 1
Starter clue: J = T
CLSHMJFUJJZTJUCZBJLJELKOCMUXOFTUFLDBZJHL,KUUIBFQOJJEOJUFKT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hard Cryptograms Set 112
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 = R
OWJAKCVKGOWJPDNJIMQJFKDCOMZCJTQQUTAKCVKGFWTCTFOJCHDMQLMIE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = I
AGOYYGJYYHZXRHSOYXRWOWSX,UHZSXTGMOGHUGUSXJKSTOHGOGLDXUOWSXT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: E = T
FTIENWWEUHEIEWJCBIECEWXIACMCOCJVC,IJMIEIJWETCLEWSCEHJETCOWC?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: H = E
WUDRYGHVISVXHKSFII,-RNHPDVKNRHDRNHKSVRRHD,RNHAUDHHFIVSBPDUXHG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: L = N
ADVJOCPQALKZOLRPMPVGTVPZKKSOLT,ZLYQALKZOLROKOLVOQSZXDLYZLQP.
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)
- “We must not try to write the laws of any one virtue, looking at that only.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=D B=I C=W D=V E=H F=N G=Z H=U I=K J=T K=L L=E M=S N=B O=A P=C Q=G R=J S=M T=Y U=O V=P W=Q X=F Y=X Z=R
- “The work of the juvenile court is really a work of character building.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=W B=X C=R D=U E=G F=C G=F H=B I=N J=E K=O L=D M=I N=V O=T P=J Q=L R=Q S=P T=A U=Y V=K W=H X=M Y=Z Z=S
- “With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1865, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=W B=M C=B D=V E=Z F=X G=I H=O I=J J=G K=A L=S M=C N=K O=T P=Q Q=Y R=F S=R T=D U=N V=L W=U X=E Y=H Z=P
- “What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?”— John Milton, 1671, Samson Agonistes, Line 560 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=G C=E D=V E=T F=W G=Z H=I I=A J=N K=J L=R M=D N=B O=F P=Y Q=X R=P S=L T=H U=S V=C W=O X=M Y=U Z=Q
- “Fortune is like glass, - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”— Publilius Syrus, 42 BC, Sententiae (Maxims), 280 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=Y C=X D=R E=P F=A G=N H=E I=S J=Z K=G L=W M=J N=H O=D P=B Q=C R=T S=L T=Q U=O V=I W=F X=K Y=U Z=V
- “Our life contains every great thing, and contains it in rich abundance.”— Woodrow Wilson, 1913, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=O B=Q C=F D=U E=J F=K G=Y H=M I=P J=L K=T L=N M=V N=Z O=I P=E Q=C R=S S=H T=G U=W V=R W=X X=B Y=D Z=A