Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
QPCPMPJIEYEDJKPCBIQXNPEYPBAXLPYXDXJEYOKUQANEGYP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hope Cryptograms Set 6
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: T = E
PTKHDDJVHOOJZMVJOHKTVITORVRZTHEHMSERDSVTMWTJWXT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: W = A
WDWYLAHZYTPKJPASJYJVAKWZZKPWKYJVSSESEHALEWVQYVT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: W = A
NDWJYDWIWIKYWZ,LWMQQDYCNQPBZWEQPMWOCDWQIKYWZNQCWM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: T = L
KFJDRLHJTTNIJNKFRHINZATFJDLRLHTRHINTETRCFJATZKFD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: F = E
HFADOEEIPWESAOMFPXVFOIESEPAFBDFEOABWFABDPYFPJFOXBD.
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)
- “He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause.”— Portuguese proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=T B=D C=N D=F E=A F=J G=U H=Y I=W J=R K=I L=B M=V N=C O=L P=E Q=H R=Z S=K T=X U=G V=Q W=M X=O Y=S Z=P
- “We cannot afford to face the future as a disunited people.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=X B=Q C=M D=N E=S F=Y G=V H=A I=H J=O K=C L=Z M=D N=K O=F P=W Q=B R=U S=I T=E U=J V=T W=P X=L Y=G Z=R
- “A pair of light shoes is not all that is needed for dancing.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=O B=J C=K D=P E=D F=V G=U H=F I=Z J=S K=T L=R M=Y N=X O=M P=H Q=C R=W S=E T=G U=Q V=N W=A X=B Y=I Z=L
- “I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”— William Shakespeare, 1595, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=F C=W D=H E=N F=X G=C H=L I=D J=V K=R L=P M=S N=I O=Y P=O Q=T R=Q S=J T=B U=K V=U W=A X=G Y=E Z=M
- “Wearing all that weight of learning lightly like a flower.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam A.H.H., Conclusion. Stanza 10 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=Z C=K D=R E=Y F=E G=J H=G I=H J=A K=W L=N M=V N=T O=Q P=U Q=X R=I S=P T=L U=D V=M W=C X=S Y=B Z=O
- “We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1862, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=S B=T C=U D=H E=L F=E G=C H=W I=N J=F K=I L=K M=V N=X O=A P=O Q=G R=J S=Y T=Q U=Z V=M W=B X=R Y=P Z=D