Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = H
AXRFBWTIFVVXUQABPAXIFNTIVFJWJAFGXKH,TIXJAFZJAFQABJF,TIYTJABZYJAFWAFKK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hope Cryptograms Set 13
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 = H
DFYAHRUFYTFNGJZGAGDFGIPFEIIPALGQPOQPXJPADWNDFEADFYAHRUFYTFNGJZGFGIP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: A = O
PRVAJKRPRCODXZTPRCZ,YAPRAMNVYXZDXZTYJWR,CZRALNRNVPAXPPXCZYQRAADAVOVAAD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: H = T
EGAOEOHVFLCFEFXEEVYKHZOHKFUG,OLIZGJXEVHMOYOVLZHHKGRVBGCXHXEGDVFROHVFLZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: U = T
MTNEULKLNJ-RJNBAU!TKEUKVBMNEUEFLLTS!UPKUTNVBERYJJFLUAYVTAOPUNJQAVOEUYXTS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: P = T
GUHSHWPIUKBMIPPIHPCBWBPWPIUWUWHGUFUW;GUHSHWPIUSEGGFGSRVWPIHPYHSDDFIUHSP.
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)
- “Hope is an egg of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=H B=I C=U D=J E=B F=E G=Y H=K I=N J=T K=L L=V M=Z N=M O=Q P=C Q=W R=P S=X T=A U=F V=G W=S X=O Y=D Z=R
- “Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.”— Plautus, 195 BC, Mostellaria, Act I. Sc. 3, 40. (197) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=K C=V D=T E=A F=H G=O H=G I=P J=U K=J L=M M=X N=Y O=F P=E Q=R R=S S=Z T=C U=W V=B W=L X=Q Y=I Z=D
- “Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, In hope her to attain by hook or crook.”— Edmund Spenser, 1590, The Faerie Queene, Book III. Canto I. St. 17 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=W C=I D=K E=X F=L G=Q H=J I=Z J=U K=G L=P M=V N=E O=C P=T Q=Y R=H S=F T=D U=M V=R W=S X=A Y=B Z=N
- “Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.”— William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1770, Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=K C=F D=V E=R F=O G=E H=T I=D J=C K=H L=N M=Y N=X O=A P=Z Q=B R=L S=W T=Q U=M V=I W=J X=U Y=G Z=S
- “Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly.”— Alexander Pope, 1735, Moral Essays, Epistle III. Line 39 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=D C=Q D=X E=S F=U G=M H=K I=Z J=R K=A L=P M=B N=E O=G P=H Q=W R=C S=Y T=L U=T V=N W=J X=F Y=O Z=V
- “Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.”— Thomas Gray, 1757, The Bard, I. 3, Line 12 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=I C=V D=M E=U F=Y G=D H=A I=H J=Q K=L L=J M=G N=Z O=F P=T Q=B R=O S=R T=C U=E V=P W=S X=N Y=W Z=X