Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = N
GAFUWJUPBXEANAUJA,-FROZUPAOP-HFUAOUSWAWFGUA!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Cryptograms Set 1
7 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: V = E
QYVDBYVYHNEHBBVN,FJBVVIVNWFLVJYVPVHBFDACGVZRSFBFJVISBFP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: T = A
JUVMQTGLSJIQZMKQOTJUKHZVITSS,ZMKQWTFZKHZVXQWTORTUWWOQTOF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: M = A
PJZLR,ZKJF,AJLSMFBBCEFU,GEZKMKJMIZHCIMFVHMZJ;RZEPPMTKEJWEFU,RZEPPSLIRLEFU,PJMIFZCPMACLIMFBZCGMEZ.
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: P = A
MCFLPNYELVKF,PKLMCFLPASKFEEJPDDEJAVOMCFUYKXEVJKYXCM,PEPJFPMCFAYEUPJMFLLVUKUPALJAVOPKFPXDFYKCYEJDYXCM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Q = E
WUOQFXLZTQPKDQRPWWTQDURYGFMQIPRDPBQXGTWUOQFFGNWUDQ,PRYYQHPTKURZ,WQPOQNQEURYGFLXXKHTURKFXRKEQFPRYFXLKUDQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 7
Starter clue: X = E
DGXGXYAGDBRLAIXPDHXSIXPNGXQPSQJXMDVXIXSKDPDDPYSXQRLBZQQXSTEYAGD,RZDDGXL,VGYEXDGXYINKHMPSYKSBBEXMD,VXIXDKYEYSAZMVPIQYSDGXSYAGD.
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 (7 solutions)
- “Into a world unknown, - the corner-stone of a nation!”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1858, The Courtship of Miles Standish, IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=L C=B D=J E=U F=T G=I H=S I=Y J=W K=V L=Q M=X N=K O=E P=R Q=M R=H S=F T=G U=O V=P W=A X=D Y=Z Z=C
- “When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1847, Evangeline, Part I. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=S C=O D=N E=P F=I G=F H=A I=M J=T K=V L=K M=Y N=D O=B P=C Q=W R=Q S=U T=J U=Z V=E W=L X=R Y=H Z=X
- “Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1841, Ballads and Other Poems, The Rainy Day (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=Q C=V D=G E=X F=Y G=C H=U I=F J=I K=M L=H M=O N=P O=R P=J Q=E R=K S=L T=A U=N V=T W=D X=B Y=Z Z=S
- “Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1841, Ballads and Other Poems, A Psalm of Life (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=D C=O D=X E=I F=N G=W H=F I=R J=E K=H L=U M=A N=J O=K P=L Q=M R=S S=P T=C U=G V=Y W=V X=Q Y=Z Z=T
- “The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in his flight.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1850, The Seaside and the Fireside, The Day is done (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=P C=H D=L E=S F=E G=B H=U I=Q J=F K=N L=D M=T N=Y O=M P=A Q=C R=J S=K T=Z U=W V=O W=X X=G Y=I Z=V
- “Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1841, Ballads and Other Poems, A Psalm of Life (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=K C=Z D=M E=H F=S G=U H=P I=C J=Y K=T L=F M=W N=B O=V P=A Q=E R=N S=J T=R U=I V=Q W=L X=O Y=D Z=G
- “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1858, The Ladder of St. AugustineCipher key: A=G B=S C=Z D=T E=L F=Q G=H H=M I=R J=K K=O L=Y M=P N=C O=J P=A Q=D R=B S=N T=F U=V V=W W=X X=E Y=I Z=U