Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = O
RHSAQRHDKPGDPPWKIQKIPQBMWRHGRHSOTQXLUIMXIRHSKHHLWMNIKWRHGRHSOXHGYXMPGXP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hope Cryptograms Set 14
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: O = S
EAVZNCMLSTWAEFNOOVOTURTOTDSVEAZMGWAOFNXVNUQMUSCPAVUTELNSSOMUNUMDKVXETOTEOVVU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = T
AKWSYIEZHPWKAFEHWPRSCZPKZOZRKSBPFCPWEZPWKLCEKPOZINPEYYOEFSBIKYEHWPBCYNPCIEKN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = H
ZYKKLEIGZEIGV,XVCRDLIKTHJ!ACDILYCAAVKEHJLIKYVGRDZGWRCDIL;ZYKKLEIGZEIGV,XVCRDLIKTHJ!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: E = A
ZFEUSHNUSWCYXEMYXNWCHNSCWZEZMENUEZFHYEZQTYZNUWCYMEHYBPFENU,WCEWREAAHYEZWCYDPERY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: R = E
SRFIMRPRRGUFRSBCDQCJMRUJUPFBARKODLIHRBGUFRLCRIUUCOUFPBGSFJEFUFRKBOGQRCPSCBOLFU.
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)
- “You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=M B=V C=Z D=F E=J F=P G=N H=O I=H J=X K=T L=K M=I N=G O=R P=E Q=A R=Y S=U T=B U=W V=Q W=L X=C Y=S Z=D
- “The ray of light passes invisible through space and only when it falls on an object is it seen.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=H B=K C=Y D=B E=T F=P G=U H=Z I=X J=Q K=J L=F M=O N=A O=S P=W Q=D R=V S=L T=I U=N V=E W=G X=C Y=M Z=R
- “Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.”— John Milton, 1642, The Reason of Church Government, Introduction, Book II (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=F C=U D=J E=I F=R G=M H=G I=D J=X K=E L=Q M=Z N=S O=A P=T Q=K R=C S=O T=V U=W V=Y W=H X=P Y=L Z=N
- “Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Light will repay the wrongs of night; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!”— Francis Quarles, 1635, Emblems, Book I. Emblem 14 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=M C=I D=G E=P F=Q G=O H=A I=H J=Y K=E L=T M=K N=J O=V P=C Q=Z R=N S=U T=D U=X V=R W=F X=B Y=W Z=S
- “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=O C=H D=Y E=A F=P G=Q H=L I=X J=B K=C L=K M=V N=I O=J P=F Q=U R=D S=G T=R U=N V=M W=T X=W Y=E Z=S
- “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=P B=O C=R D=L E=C F=H G=N H=Z I=A J=I K=F L=G M=V N=B O=U P=S Q=D R=E S=W T=J U=T V=Y W=X X=K Y=Q Z=M