Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = A
FJBFEGQDBAKPDBFVMXE,DJGMIVMGNWUNWHAMWK?MAAOVMJ,WDWVMNKPDB,MWKOVQBWKVJGFMWK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 18
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: Y = E
VLYHMMCYPKNVNTMGQNEYGSLZUSYILKSLIKFFYPEFZKUMQGAKGZSFYNZUBGYJYZFUYIMUYN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: W = T
FMOYEMYTGTGPMWZGWQMGLXWDDCSKZWDVMFYXM,GTLWZGWWZYTAXWDDCSKZWDVMVMGSWYJSO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = E
OWTGNFETH'GODRAW,WDJTUCRFGFOTBIPFLT!PTTBGYOTYAWOWHTYE,YLEBFKTGYBDLSOWTBFLT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: K = O
VKYQWKFFQGKCG,KGVIFELVKWMQEFGXGUNKAQ,EGNAPXGHAPQOUFKCXYYKFAEMEVAPQOZDKAQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: L = O
GWMBVSVFCLSVFKOVKBPMKTMRFXAHLBLDFLOLBVTFVVDLDIXMFVHIPMBRLKLICWBBLZVHLKV.
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)
- “Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.”— Alexander Pope, 1734, An Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 261 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=U C=P D=O E=H F=T G=S H=G I=V J=R K=D L=B M=A N=I O=F P=Y Q=W R=Z S=X T=M U=K V=E W=N X=C Y=Q Z=J
- “The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=M B=D C=K D=Q E=P F=L G=R H=B I=W J=V K=I L=H M=O N=S O=J P=X Q=U R=Z S=C T=F U=N V=T W=G X=Y Y=E Z=A
- “We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=K B=P C=M D=O E=V F=W G=A H=Z I=Q J=F K=C L=D M=E N=X O=L P=G Q=R R=Y S=U T=N U=J V=B W=T X=S Y=I Z=H
- “The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”— Alexander Pope, 1734, An Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 217 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=L C=Q D=O E=D F=I G=S H=R I=Y J=W K=V L=N M=J N=P O=T P=F Q=B R=U S=G T=E U=X V=K W=H X=Z Y=A Z=M
- “Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”— Edward Young, 1728, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire I. Line 89 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=J C=W D=U E=A F=R G=N H=K I=C J=X K=O L=P M=L N=D O=Y P=H Q=E R=B S=V T=Z U=G V=S W=F X=I Y=M Z=Q
- “Whatever Government can fairly do to promote free popular education ought to be done.”— Rutherford B. Hayes, 1880, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Y B=T C=G D=P E=Q F=R G=W H=D I=U J=X K=N L=O M=A N=S O=M P=C Q=Z R=I S=V T=F U=K V=E W=H X=L Y=J Z=B