Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = T
DJANSDGPDSJDLTVHEDSJDLYDYHMOH,YBHJEWDTLYDPDSHO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 4
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: W = T
WFGVHBSEWFGXSHGBIPKKNLOXWFWFGZBWKZKWFGSL'OKSNL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = E
VBAVUAFUQHBUTFEDJBBQJUOZUPJAYVUKBAVBQYJASYHIB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: J = E
DJGZTXWQCDJPPEGZWWECWSFNMQWSBJAJKQSCJCXJZCEPF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: B = E
VBMBCBFRYJPVXXIMXMQBWFBJLDTXPAQSUQQBYDEMLBTBPL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: K = E
YWNKDKVYVWFDAOCMMCPJUKK,VRUBGJCQEUKVX,VFXMWEKUJA.
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)
- “Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1765, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), Chap. VIII. Stanza 6 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=L C=Z D=T E=R F=C G=B H=E I=V J=A K=J L=P M=S N=G O=M P=Y Q=D R=Q S=H T=O U=K V=W W=N X=F Y=I Z=X
- “They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”— Robert Burton, 1621, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reader (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=A C=X D=Q E=D F=H G=E H=L I=N J=M K=O L=S M=G N=K O=W P=B Q=P R=V S=R T=J U=C V=Y W=T X=I Y=Z Z=F
- “He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1580, Essays, Book II, Chap. XII. Apology for Raimond Sebond (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=E C=P D=G E=N F=I G=Q H=R I=C J=S K=V L=K M=X N=J O=L P=Y Q=M R=U S=F T=D U=A V=H W=B X=Z Y=O Z=W
- “We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=B B=R C=S D=W E=O F=D G=M H=X I=K J=E K=C L=Z M=N N=Y O=P P=L Q=A R=J S=U T=G U=F V=Q W=T X=H Y=V Z=I
- “Let every man look to the bread upon which he must depend.”— Portuguese proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=W B=E C=V D=U E=S F=R G=J H=X I=K J=A K=Z L=D M=T N=Q O=F P=N Q=H R=Y S=I T=P U=C V=L W=B X=O Y=M Z=G
- “Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread, and liberty.”— Alexander Pope, 1738, Imitations of Horace, Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire VI. Book II. Line 220 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=U C=O D=M E=B F=N G=S H=K I=Q J=T K=E L=Z M=L N=V O=H P=W Q=F R=C S=P T=X U=R V=A W=I X=D Y=G Z=J