Puzzle 1
Starter clue: I = H
UIZYQZFOUFQPWUIFMNJIXIQKIXZGPDDXQWWWQJIUNDSMXCQCIMCMFMFSQDIMCMFUMUIZWPUZDUJZCZFPUQMC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hope Cryptograms Set 16
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: X = E
NRXRJMXVJANRXIXMDSYWZZHCCJNAJIXLXINJYXIHNXXWNRXIDCGXVXILXGMJLXINKJIVXYA-VXILWCQFXHYNR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: L = E
NXECEZLUPBEXEFHAGLXEFJPMLGULGLNLHXAQLEGHBARUEJLCAESSNXAXEMLOEPCXPGJAMLUGZLGCTVCXLQLAQSL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: O = E
SAKSHOFWSVRO,KSRDREYPIRECSWSXNERNOKRPANDWGENOADESPAR,DAKCSENGODYPGFNDAXOVOYVWOUORHPADYFNR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: N = E
ZFDRBUGZURNMIAFIPNAFGNFMNQENNBLMNOZQAI,FUMIAFIUBCDFOOBUN,ZUIANENFODZCLBEITUNCFUMXFZUCBLBIANEC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: U = E
IZUNPCHBWRRUJUPQUTUIDUUPIZUVKWPIKPBIZUVWPPUJWVIZKIUSUJHVKWPIZKVKOKVI,KPBUSUJHVWPPUJZKVKRGIGJU.
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)
- “The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1862, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Q B=V C=N D=S E=X F=R G=P H=B I=H J=G K=C L=J M=O N=U O=Y P=A Q=I R=K S=D T=Z U=T V=M W=L X=W Y=F Z=E
- “The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941, Third Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=F B=Q C=N D=U E=K F=W G=D H=A I=R J=O K=Y L=V M=P N=T O=J P=M Q=G R=H S=B T=X U=Z V=S W=I X=E Y=L Z=C
- “What America has done has given renewed hope and courage to all who have faith in government by the people.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=O B=C C=T D=X E=A F=S G=N H=D I=Q J=G K=J L=E M=V N=W O=F P=I Q=P R=U S=L T=B U=R V=Y W=Z X=H Y=K Z=M
- “In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”— John Milton, 1667, Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 597 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Z C=W D=A E=T F=C G=F H=M I=U J=Y K=D L=B M=K N=H O=E P=O Q=J R=S S=I T=V U=X V=P W=L X=G Y=R Z=Q
- “I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”— Edmund Burke, 1757, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful, On the Sublime and Beautiful. Sect. XIV. vol. 1. p. 118 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=O C=S D=M E=R F=A G=V H=Z I=T J=Y K=X L=F M=D N=E O=L P=W Q=G R=C S=K T=U U=N V=J W=B X=P Y=Q Z=I
- “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”— Oscar Wilde, 1893, A Woman of No ImportanceCipher key: A=J B=D C=L D=W E=X F=K G=U H=Y I=T J=R K=A L=G M=Z N=O O=P P=N Q=C R=F S=V T=B U=E V=S W=I X=Q Y=M Z=H