Puzzle 1
Starter clue: T = E
JTRJIRIGFOMILETCWGKLWPLTICJHKJIDTLIRWHLTRTFFJTWTPCLTWHMFPGOPEFTLJHMSKIGSJLJHQKTFCLIETPLWGTDITQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hope Cryptograms Set 17
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: B = T
BJXMNJIEQINBJXBSPBJVSXQIBXAPVZBIBJIDXNJIZIWXTB,VQUBJXMNJIZIWXTBVSXQIBXAPVZBIBJIDXNJIUXZTOJBTQTB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = E
BKPXFOPMMFUVKBJNSBYOBNMF,ZEIKBOKFPOKJMBHKVXPSBPVBWY,BRDJFRDM,BJNSFJFSXFU,ZEVKFVFSAYPVDSPMJFMFOVBWY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: W = A
ROLWIKONUXVWDWZOAGLWGKWCJXVWDWZOAGLWVWKJNCO,WUGAZOALNIAWTO,WVGTVOAVNHO,GCKHGAOKDVOVOWADNUWSSVIZWCGDE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = A
YWJUCQNXULDJ,CDUYWJUCGRDJXXBCVVXBGLOYWJINDFXLBDNFWY,CXCBJCYWJGNXICBYJUULIDICGUBGLOCDJCFVJNDWNXBVNFWY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Q = T
RWWSEXQCZKWNQVZEBXKGXEAWDTWEGW.KXLCXXYNQQVWPNUEZEBFXZRXKQVWKTQTLW,NERNQQVNQXQVWLCZSZQCWAAAJNGW,QVWJNAQ.
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 who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”— John Milton, 1642, An Apology for Smectymnuus (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=C C=F D=P E=B F=L G=U H=I I=O J=H K=S L=T M=N N=X O=D P=A Q=M R=W S=G T=E U=Q V=J W=R X=V Y=Z Z=Y
- “They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=Q B=T C=F D=S E=K F=B G=X H=C I=O J=H K=J L=P M=Y N=W O=G P=U Q=N R=Z S=R T=I U=D V=A W=V X=E Y=M Z=L
- “I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.”— Charles Darwin, 1859, On the Origin of Species, Chap. III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=I C=K D=U E=Y F=E G=X H=G I=W J=S K=H L=Q M=L N=P O=C P=A Q=J R=F S=R T=Z U=D V=T W=O X=V Y=N Z=B
- “Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=R B=X C=N D=T E=Y F=K G=I H=P I=U J=D K=S L=C M=V N=O O=E P=Q Q=J R=B S=L T=G U=F V=H W=A X=W Y=Z Z=M
- “The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in his flight.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1850, The Seaside and the Fireside, The Day is done (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=F C=A D=N E=B F=G G=R H=P I=W J=E K=V L=O M=U N=I O=M P=Z Q=Y R=K S=Q T=C U=D V=L W=H X=S Y=T Z=X
- “Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IV. 50 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=G C=L D=Q E=N F=V G=C H=B I=Z J=P K=F L=R M=J N=A O=X P=Y Q=T R=D S=M T=U U=W V=H W=E X=O Y=K Z=I