Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = E
PXHWNKCPQZCAVNNJNCWQIQPXNC,QCLWQIQPXNCVNNJANCPXHAHQ;QCLWKAZCDPXHIHQCXNKIQVNCH,ZLIHQWHLPXQPDIHHOHWZDXPAPZVVMHYIHH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Hope Cryptograms Set 19
5 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: T = A
AIRJPKLPPV-LREPOJPVTARLJRGNBKIAMCRROJ,ATYYRTFJ,ELTVUI-UITLNPOEMAIPPTLVPJAJATLJ,OLPTN,TVOJROLPTNTYYVBKIACBAIRWATJABL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = E
EBSJLTMBPFBILHVBJPFLPEBQLOXWBJNJLEXGJLAAXGHP,LHNYTHNZXXNDGLRTPTBMTHPFBFTZFELOQLHTHPFBFXSBPFLPFBQLOMSLJBXGJSXAVBPM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: O = E
OMOQETOHQXXTHXTHRUOHXRXQFVPHVLSTOOQKAJJETHRJOKXHTFYOKAJWDYAJROUOTWVLWXWVXTOBFQJL,HVLUOXXOQOLXTOXQHLWXWFVFKDHVIWVL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: B = I
YBOTSYJRUHNRCBUSHRCBUTFRYFK,CLGYHQFGSHZYFCG,YCNFLS,CLGXWF;XWBSYBOTSYJKHL,CLGXTHUS-YBQFGZCBL,RHUNHLCUVTXXFYGHNXBOTBLQCBL.
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 (5 solutions)
- “The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.”— Lord Byron, 1819, Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 86. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=W C=N D=G E=J F=V G=P H=E I=R J=K K=U L=D M=B N=O O=C P=T Q=A R=Q S=X T=Z U=Y V=L W=M X=H Y=F Z=I
- “Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.”— John Keats, 1820, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, Hyperion. Book I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=I C=W D=V E=B F=K G=F H=J I=H J=S K=G L=R M=Y N=M O=D P=E Q=P R=O S=Q T=A U=C V=N W=U X=Z Y=L Z=X
- “We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=C B=E C=J D=Q E=W F=H G=U H=N I=B J=R K=Z L=A M=S N=D O=Y P=T Q=M R=L S=P T=I U=X V=K W=V X=O Y=F Z=G
- “Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=U B=W C=Z D=M E=Y F=O G=Q H=A I=K J=L K=F L=D M=V N=X O=E P=G Q=R R=S S=C T=H U=B V=N W=I X=T Y=P Z=J
- “Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.”— Sir Walter Scott, 1808, Marmion, Canto V. Stanza 9 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=I C=A D=Z E=Q F=E G=D H=O I=B J=Y K=W L=N M=K N=M O=G P=J Q=V R=F S=T T=H U=R V=C W=U X=S Y=L Z=P