Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = I
CPOPHXEU,NMQBKXGEQPHKGKDDCNQVHKCZ,NMQBKXIHPEVKGKDDCNQPEQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 9
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
TLNSQDHWDVLQWBLOMCDWEOHRCWSBQLIKLQUHDLHDUWHOIICUHXSBLM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: R = E
AUACEWRZSMPORPUTRIEPTSULAPOUXZREHEVZAWEURDAOEZRUURDECR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: K = L
KMLFCIZEMMOCLCZIPMF'ESLKLHOITIPMOKKEJPOSPTZREPZRKNLDZON.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: N = I
SYNDVDAEXNDFCNEXARETLLNDFNE,TNFDDAEXNDFCNEXAREYLHSNDFNE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: H = E
YFSHCRHUWXUMEHXMZPSIHSS:FUZEFKWUYUWHFYSHZELGWHENELNEFHUO.
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)
- “Never say, of this water I will not drink, of this bread I will not eat.”— Portuguese proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=G B=H C=N D=L E=A F=U G=W H=R I=B J=C K=I L=Q M=F N=O O=V P=E Q=T R=X S=Z T=J U=Y V=D W=P X=S Y=M Z=K
- “We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured.”— Jane Austen, 1813, Pride and PrejudiceCipher key: A=Z B=R C=Y D=T E=F F=H G=Q H=N I=L J=P K=V L=E M=D N=M O=A P=X Q=S R=C S=U T=W U=I V=B W=O X=J Y=K Z=G
- “It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case.”— Oscar Wilde, 1895, The Importance of Being EarnestCipher key: A=I B=K C=S D=C E=A F=W G=J H=D I=M J=Q K=B L=H M=U N=Z O=G P=N Q=F R=E S=Y T=L U=T V=P W=V X=O Y=X Z=R
- “Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.”— Publilius Syrus, 42 BC, Sententiae (Maxims), 120 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=K C=N D=V E=S F=R G=Q H=M I=T J=W K=L L=A M=E N=D O=I P=H Q=Z R=U S=C T=Y U=X V=B W=J X=P Y=G Z=O
- “Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.”— Portuguese proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=O B=P C=W D=N E=T F=G G=V H=A I=M J=F K=J L=E M=Q N=I O=C P=B Q=L R=U S=D T=S U=X V=K W=Z X=H Y=R Z=Y
- “Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle from her propriety.”— William Shakespeare, 1604, Othello, Act II. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=X C=N D=Z E=R F=I G=M H=E I=B J=Q K=G L=O M=D N=P O=Y P=U Q=V R=C S=L T=J U=T V=W W=H X=A Y=S Z=F