Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = I
UDGXXDSXXHCWNHZGXWNPGPZW,VHCZWKDLGDHVDVZWSFZKGHDGDTOWVGPZWK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hope Cryptograms Set 10
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: N = E
ONMIWWXKYNDWNIKRTFAUGNIZCRZMWNIGNSQKYNGNXNIWGRZKSKYNQAKAWN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Y = I
HDGQWGAHITYPUFYAXFNHWGQANPTCYGW,HPUBMQPUGCYJFBYPBNHWHLQYTYLG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = A
ODPQANPTFOFRKQFGNSQVFCKDZKWOQ,AWOWHARWVSFGGQKWKWVOFBBFONSQKQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: H = E
QWHCHGUFHKJECHTIUQWUMWEMHKQBEYOQ,OHGUHFHJH,QWIMUMWIGTQWHSCHHBK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: T = E
BGQMWSSNTNZIKTSZTHTO,MQP-PUOGWPVGX,WRVIFZPQFGRNBCTLZIUXWKTOVZRT.
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)
- “With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1865, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=K B=Q C=P D=I E=L F=A G=T H=O I=J J=Y K=D L=C M=Z N=F O=V P=U Q=B R=M S=G T=S U=W V=N W=E X=H Y=X Z=R
- “We carry the great impulse and increase of these years into the future.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1892, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=U B=X C=D D=G E=B F=P G=S H=Z I=A J=Q K=T L=K M=C N=E O=W P=V Q=F R=I S=O T=M U=L V=J W=R X=Y Y=H Z=N
- “A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.”— George Herbert, 1633, The Temple, The Church Porch (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=T C=L D=V E=X F=H G=E H=A I=Y J=G K=Z L=C M=U N=O O=Q P=N Q=R R=P S=K T=F U=D V=B W=S X=W Y=I Z=J
- “Silently as a dream the fabric rose, No sound of hammer or of saw was there.”— William Cowper, 1785, The Task, Book V. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 144 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=W C=B D=I E=Z F=A G=M H=U I=K J=X K=R L=Q M=P N=T O=S P=L Q=E R=D S=H T=Y U=J V=F W=O X=V Y=G Z=C
- “There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam A.H.H., XCVI. Stanza 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=D C=R D=P E=O F=V G=L H=E I=A J=M K=S L=Q M=N N=Y O=B P=Z Q=T R=W S=C T=F U=I V=K W=H X=J Y=U Z=X
- “You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=Y C=J D=Z E=X F=P G=O H=V I=S J=K K=B L=W M=C N=M O=R P=T Q=U R=N S=L T=E U=H V=D W=A X=G Y=Q Z=I