Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = E
OLXYPLXTOGHCEOPIFBHCEBYPQCFNCTOFNCTOFPJEFNOFPFJOLLCKCUHCZVYYGYCOULF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 17
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: H = T
JIUNSCEHKIJTHHJISUDHTJDVHCVUTJ,VZNIUXHKIHKTSCUN,USXFUHFKHKIXNTYTSLLUJI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Y = O
TDTCQYDKGCNDYWTQAGFGQZLYLGCEKGIQKAWYIDLIKKNKGICZTDLYHDPYFTQSDYOKSYYA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = I
GJRLAWYIAVAGSFDUBGTZRALUFGGJBGHJAVJWBSRBLAISXRZRBQ,XTGALAURPJBTLGAXIR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Q = E
LQOQUDIQO,PFUZQIIQOVJOETILUFILPC,PCLUEETQCPOQRJOQEJHQUFTXFJVEQTSQJDBJA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: T = E
WDSIMTYZTVCBQTSDMKRSODBPVDESBQSRBQTMSLTPDYBQTGAVDXVGMTCSRQONPDMVETABK.
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)
- “Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.”— Izaak Walton, 1653, The Complete Angler, Author's Preface (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=O C=E D=Q E=S F=T G=Y H=B I=D J=C K=V L=N M=P N=H O=A P=I Q=K R=W S=X T=M U=R V=U W=J X=G Y=L Z=F
- “Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.”— Alexander Pope, 1734, An Essay on Man, Epistle III. Line 177 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=Y C=O D=U E=F F=C G=J H=T I=E J=L K=H L=G M=Q N=R O=W P=Z Q=K R=M S=N T=I U=A V=S W=X X=D Y=V Z=P
- “It is not easy to find a man who has learned for three years without coming to be good.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=D B=P C=S D=T E=L F=M G=A H=U I=R J=K K=E L=H M=V N=Y O=B P=C Q=N R=Z S=G T=I U=X V=Q W=F X=J Y=O Z=W
- “The simplicity of nature is not that which may easily be read, but is inexhaustible.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=I B=A C=K D=F E=Q F=O G=T H=W I=L J=H K=V L=S M=G N=Z O=J P=X Q=D R=E S=Y T=U U=N V=C W=M X=B Y=P Z=R
- “Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.”— William Shakespeare, 1600, As You Like It, Act I. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=Y C=S D=F E=L F=N G=X H=V I=T J=O K=C L=H M=P N=Z O=R P=I Q=E R=M S=G T=D U=A V=W W=J X=K Y=Q Z=B
- “Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.”— Daniel Webster, 1843, Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 93 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=T C=S D=N E=B F=X G=P H=Q I=W J=Z K=Y L=V M=L N=M O=U P=A Q=H R=F S=O T=E U=J V=I W=K X=C Y=D Z=G