Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = I
JFQRGJAKJEFJSEANEAKAGFHFG'KVUSRD;IRGACKAKJEFJAGSEUKRVUSRDFHFGAK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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James Russell Lowell Cryptograms Set 2
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: R = E
YUVNRXHQHPBEXWRVCMSQPEYRBYJXHYXBQRB,-VHRVJYERJSRBE,XHFVJYERBGQMQYVHR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = E
BZTWVHZXBCNSABXVJYZCZROWHMCSF,HZTUHSCBZXBHMMSABUHNNCJZJIRVBHSABHVSN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: O = E
TNRVWHGOVTYTJOOGEHRWNWMOVPYBVJYWVNJYTTNQVOWCVTAMNROTNPOENDWMOQMYDYQWOD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = N
YJCRYDRYTGJFEDWZGWRHHBOYZNSBJONYJHHBJGJEZBUKNOYDWGWOYFWRUOYZSOHBBOCNWUM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: J = E
RMRIAGVNJIJXUJWCDRXORXYXMNRJOJDJNFJXURJIMKEMMKJXEMRTJDJMEZWCEDEXRIMJIMJO.
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)
- “Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”— James Russell Lowell, 1870, Among My Books, First Series. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=K C=U D=R E=H F=A G=N H=M I=G J=T K=S L=B M=V N=C O=Q P=J Q=L R=E S=W T=F U=O V=P W=Y X=Z Y=X Z=D
- “Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, - One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.”— James Russell Lowell, 1844, Sonnet XXXIV. (Ed. 1844) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=S C=U D=X E=H F=D G=P H=N I=Z J=F K=J L=C M=R N=M O=B P=G Q=I R=E S=L T=Y U=W V=O W=V X=A Y=T Z=K
- “Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”— James Russell Lowell, 1844, Poems (1844), Columbus (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=E C=I D=J E=X F=Y G=Z H=A I=F J=O K=B L=V M=L N=S O=Q P=M Q=K R=G S=T T=D U=P V=R W=U X=C Y=W Z=N
- “Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”— James Russell Lowell, 1870, Among My Books, First Series. Dryden (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=G C=Y D=R E=F F=K G=D H=U I=Z J=N K=B L=Q M=H N=O O=E P=M Q=C R=L S=X T=S U=P V=I W=T X=J Y=A Z=V
- “No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”— James Russell Lowell, 1870, Among My Books, First Series. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=H C=M D=C E=U F=D G=R H=T I=J J=O K=Y L=V M=F N=S O=I P=Z Q=X R=A S=W T=P U=L V=K W=E X=B Y=N Z=G
- “It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.”— James Russell Lowell, 1871, My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=W C=F D=M E=A F=G G=Y H=Q I=S J=E K=H L=Z M=T N=R O=D P=K Q=J R=I S=X T=V U=C V=P W=O X=N Y=U Z=L