Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = O
GKUEMUDKTMDKUIJHMDRNKGBBGIZNGKUEVRSHHPHJNHIZNUIENHIITDNKTMT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 12
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: B = E
EBIHBIJJQRHJNABMNKBHBIXNDOMZBUQCNQRPPBDPBQAMZNPANHPMQAAQHKP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = E
JOAIPZOPICOQIPJFUCDDXJOHCFAZOP,EIJVPIPFIZEFAIPYDPCQJOAIPZAIPD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: O = E
WZPVSZQOBSZHHSDNOHOCFPZPJBDQOMGCSJDDV,CPVJZXOYKNOZPJVOBYHSDFR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = O
OCPRQKMAGOVAPRQGOSSWMAKWKYMRVYAMOXPGZODZRUSPSRKWVPRQGOXZERMA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: M = A
XWXPYDPNHVMWMYPPDHVMSYOXPGMZDYWPMYPNVSWVUVSMYZVMYKMNNHXZMPXDY?
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)
- “I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=L C=Z D=T E=D F=J G=I H=O I=N J=F K=H L=U M=R N=S O=X P=K Q=W R=Y S=B T=E U=A V=M W=V X=Q Y=P Z=G
- “We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=F B=E C=P D=N E=W F=K G=J H=R I=A J=L K=M L=Y M=T N=I O=G P=S Q=O R=U S=V T=B U=C V=Z W=X X=D Y=Q Z=H
- “In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.”— Plautus, 195 BC, Aulularia, Act II. Sc. 2, 18. (195) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=K C=A D=R E=W F=S G=U H=G I=H J=I K=Q L=M M=X N=P O=N P=E Q=D R=F S=V T=Z U=C V=L W=J X=Y Y=B Z=O
- “Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, II. 7 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=S C=A D=O E=Q F=R G=H H=L I=J J=G K=P L=X M=W N=B O=E P=N Q=M R=Y S=T T=C U=Z V=D W=F X=V Y=U Z=I
- “If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=E B=Q C=F D=C E=M F=X G=W H=V I=K J=Z K=A L=B M=R N=G O=I P=Y Q=U R=O S=L T=J U=N V=S W=D X=T Y=P Z=H
- “Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=U B=Q C=F D=O E=J F=K G=H H=L I=B J=X K=D L=G M=A N=P O=W P=T Q=Y R=Z S=R T=M U=V V=E W=S X=I Y=N Z=C