Puzzle 1
Starter clue: O = E
ZXHOUCHOGOAFOCUPCRRYOSRRKXWABXWU,SABUGOAPOHSMRSWNGSUUGOCEZUWJCBCUMCAAXULAXPCANCUYOKXEO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Jane Austen Cryptograms Set 6
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: L = E
IKTLCKYVFXVDMXRRFXULJBLXVKWWKBVOCGVGLR,XCNGYVFLHXBLGCVLMMGJLCVTXHELILMMIKBVFMGRVLCGCJVK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Q = A
FIFUKBGSIRQIRTRQUDTIITCHTQBUKERQPFBLFIIRQBHQBSKIRTCU,DTZQJUTRTFUCFZR,QBNHQBSKIRTCUQCTXKKC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: M = T
MPGYGDQQVZCLPVEFYSMDMCKGVYJSUDMTDUSHZVQMGJGYTSMMSLPZGUM,MPSMDMDQUVMQSEGMVHGSJGSUTMVDMQGHE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
FXFPXVOGMBPXOIFAMUXMMKFOALFQRJQLFQLOYFPFIOJYVJBJYXOB,XVJXQMFQUANOQYOMIOBFXYJQCOLOTOQLOLMQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: S = E
JCSWSFZHULHKZHUEEREVDEBZDFEQZBSZZEWIQZJUSLCSBGSEGUSDENSFBHLHKLCFDCJCSKRBELJEISISBSHJCJCSN.
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)
- “Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before.”— Jane Austen, 1813, Pride and PrejudiceCipher key: A=N B=D C=I D=X E=R F=C G=H H=M I=Q J=P K=F L=K M=Y N=G O=E P=W Q=Z R=L S=A T=V U=T V=J W=U X=O Y=B Z=S
- “Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to.”— Jane Austen, 1817, PersuasionCipher key: A=Q B=R C=N D=C E=B F=H G=I H=Y I=W J=G K=O L=E M=L N=D O=U P=J Q=Z R=S S=X T=M U=V V=T W=P X=A Y=F Z=K
- “It is only that he has better means of having it than many others, because he is rich, and many others are poor.”— Jane Austen, 1813, Pride and PrejudiceCipher key: A=Z B=N C=R D=B E=F F=I G=L H=M I=T J=U K=O L=G M=X N=D O=W P=V Q=A R=H S=Y T=E U=S V=J W=K X=P Y=Q Z=C
- “There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.”— Jane Austen, 1813, Pride and PrejudiceCipher key: A=W B=J C=U D=I E=F F=G G=E H=L I=Z J=V K=D L=C M=T N=X O=B P=H Q=S R=P S=A T=Y U=N V=O W=Q X=K Y=R Z=M
- “It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on.”— Jane Austen, 1817, PersuasionCipher key: A=L B=R C=B D=M E=J F=I G=W H=Q I=V J=A K=Y L=D M=O N=U O=E P=S Q=N R=G S=Z T=P U=F V=H W=X X=T Y=C Z=K
- “There is always a look of consciousness or bustle when people come in a way which they know to be beneath them.”— Jane Austen, 1815, EmmaCipher key: A=Q B=N C=H D=C E=O F=I G=P H=A I=B J=T K=Y L=W M=Z N=M O=J P=V Q=U R=K S=E T=D U=L V=F W=R X=G Y=X Z=S