Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = T
CUWJZJTSYDNSEYTSDJQDTUJSTLCWNSE,CUNEADTQNYYDTDOUNPUCJKNSYDCNSE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 13
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: E = T
EFXMQJEEFOBAEFQENXGOBUOBRQWOBAQYVVWOJEVWBVNNFQENXRKJEDKEGOSJE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = E
JFLZHFDFZVOFYCITFMGCGEFOQIBCLFJIVDY,WFWTFVQIBCLFLXWZOMIWWXOGCU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = E
AYHWKXJFHLWAKUFKXUDOODIQNSFWWFJJFOFOSFJFLWYHIAYHWKXWJHIXUJKSFL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = E
VOGFAGHVFEITJGNIJXGZYZXDYGQGDIJXAFZAFHYGJVIAQIULAZPJGQCGQTSIJJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = O
AZ,ERKYWHMCAZWFAAERZNRXVVIYWHARFE,MFQNOFAGZVRXYFRWNWAFGZVRXDOFZAFE.
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)
- “Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand.”— George Herbert, 1633, The Temple, The Church Militant (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=X C=R D=T E=D F=Z G=W H=F I=J J=I K=C L=U M=Q N=A O=H P=M Q=P R=B S=N T=O U=E V=K W=L X=V Y=S Z=G
- “The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.”— Blaise Pascal, 1670, Pensees (Thoughts), Chap. IX. 30 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=N C=Q D=P E=T F=H G=F H=Z I=J J=S K=U L=Y M=L N=W O=I P=X Q=A R=M S=R T=V U=D V=O W=K X=E Y=B Z=C
- “We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945, Fourth Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=X B=F C=T D=L E=Z F=E G=I H=V I=O J=W K=Q L=H M=C N=P O=N P=K Q=S R=J S=G T=B U=Y V=R W=M X=U Y=D Z=A
- “What is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.”— Samuel Johnson, 1760, The Idler, No. 74 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=Q C=G D=O E=X F=E G=V H=A I=N J=R K=I L=D M=J N=Y O=M P=K Q=L R=U S=B T=Z U=C V=F W=T X=S Y=H Z=P
- “The inestimable value of our Federal Union is felt and acknowledged by all.”— James K. Polk, 1845, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=N B=Z C=G D=R E=M F=I G=E H=S I=A J=L K=Q L=K M=P N=V O=H P=W Q=D R=X S=Y T=B U=C V=T W=J X=U Y=F Z=O
- “Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=X C=W D=M E=H F=T G=B H=G I=P J=F K=V L=C M=S N=D O=Y P=J Q=U R=A S=Q T=Z U=L V=E W=N X=K Y=I Z=R