Puzzle 1
Starter clue: L = E
DJLOLVEPXSPGEERULDJVMHOVIVZTXRTEPWRTDDJLLURDVRMERQBLRBXLSJRURMLJPEZLPELIDRXRCL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hard Cryptograms Set 151
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: F = E
RFSJFKHJDCFUHGDNSJDUHJFMHAFMVRCFARFYHSIJHSESUHAYUFADCSARCFARFGDSVPAHTJXCSUIFJG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = E
EJIKMMCQJPRJIQQCNJDJGFJZJTBDCOQCFG,NXQEJTCJPRJIQQCTFZJHQFQCBTJLDKTFMLICMTFQFCMH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: J = A
VUJMXCFMXGNDBJZDBFGNCFXNGVJVZJFMJVUCDJVOHDVFMGNDZJCDKSUJFM,GNJGTJAACDJVGNDWSJTD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = O
ICKFVKYMHBGNTGNISVGQFCKTXBGNFGRZCTQ,KVSUCFCKIUKBYHCKFMVDKIYGICYQBGNYXGNISIGYCMQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: K = E
GKVSFKUKKEAVKGZTNOTLFKALAUVZYKRPNMSDKZEAVKMTKSAATPAVUZEGVLWVAVKRZPEOKTUGTZPMVA.
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)
- “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=Q B=P C=V D=T E=S F=J G=Y H=G I=D J=H K=Z L=E M=N N=K O=R P=A Q=F R=O S=W T=U U=M V=I W=B X=L Y=X Z=C
- “We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=N B=Q C=H D=T E=D F=E G=S H=O I=B J=R K=F L=Z M=L N=P O=V P=I Q=K R=W S=A T=U U=M V=Y W=J X=C Y=G Z=X
- “We can not expect to be relieved from toil, but we do expect to divest it of degrading conditions.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1926, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Z B=F C=O D=R E=W F=I G=L H=S I=C J=E K=A L=G M=N N=B O=M P=X Q=T R=P S=H T=D U=Q V=Y W=J X=U Y=K Z=V
- “Spangling the wave with lights as vain as pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.”— Sir Walter Scott, 1815, The Lord of the Isles, Canto I. Stanza 23 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=W C=L D=E E=J F=I G=T H=R I=B J=A K=O L=Q M=N N=H O=U P=K Q=X R=C S=F T=D U=P V=S W=Y X=G Y=M Z=V
- “Learn as if you could not reach your object, and were always fearing also lest you should lose it.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=Z B=Y C=E D=G E=Q F=R G=O H=F I=L J=K K=A L=V M=I N=U O=P P=X Q=T R=B S=D T=C U=W V=N W=M X=H Y=S Z=J
- “We have seen the world rivet its hopeful gaze on the great truths on which the founders wrought.”— Warren G. Harding, 1921, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=T B=M C=Y D=Z E=N F=V G=W H=J I=Q J=X K=E L=I M=G N=L O=D P=U Q=B R=F S=A T=R U=S V=H W=C X=K Y=P Z=O