Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = O
TGGOILSCJGGZCPGNJFUPQFCUSGYPYLE,TNQQFCELSCLWUJFQETDGGZDCIIINTIQUQNQCXGSDUXC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 20
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: V = E
ZVUBXJCKAXCIVFBZJSGUBCCVWBCBLAGSWSKWRSLDVLEVLRV,TKCBJKRRVJJGKFFEGVQLSZJLSFBZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: L = E
OUELEOKZYBLNLFYQLEKYNCFYCNLK,ELVCKYZGHLGILUOQOYLPQBEWLIMLBUYZLBWIUBCQIGYOBQK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = N
YXHUTSTIOSYYWXNHFPSTPGPEXASUXHTVPUGVVXTVGOTZTVXUPEXEGGBFGBHFOSTSFEAZYPSPZVX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = E
AXPXOAXAXUPOEUNTJBXUSYXCSZZXYYWHOWOAXAXUM,UHMZXUPHJHTLJYXPTPWLLJOAWSOAJYQWWDY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = E
JBWC-MBOBMBLQB,JBWC-ELXGWBTYB,JBWC-QXLAMXW,-ASBJBASMBBKWXLBWBKTWVCBAXJXOBMBVYLDXGBM.
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)
- “Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=V B=X C=E D=L E=Y F=H G=O H=Q I=S J=G K=J L=A M=Z N=U O=K P=N Q=T R=P S=R T=B U=I V=C W=M X=F Y=W Z=D
- “We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=D B=A C=T D=V E=I F=L G=F H=Q I=H J=S K=U L=N M=X N=P O=Z P=J Q=K R=C S=O T=B U=M V=E W=R X=Y Y=G Z=W
- “If we wish to erect new structures, we must have a definite knowledge of the old foundations.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Q B=O C=U D=P E=W F=C G=A H=V I=D J=B K=S L=E M=G N=R O=I P=K Q=N R=Z S=X T=J U=F V=M W=L X=Y Y=T Z=H
- “Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”— Edmund Burke, 1790, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. III. p. 335 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=F C=J D=Y E=H F=S G=O H=A I=G J=X K=V L=K M=P N=C O=W P=T Q=Z R=Q S=I T=N U=R V=D W=B X=E Y=L Z=U
- “Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.”— William Cowper, 1785, The Task, Book VI. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 85 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=V C=F D=K E=M F=P G=X H=N I=Q J=I K=Z L=W M=D N=Y O=T P=R Q=B R=C S=U T=G U=A V=J W=O X=E Y=S Z=L
- “Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, - These three alone lead life to sovereign power.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1833, Poems (1832), OEnone (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=E C=F D=P E=K F=Z G=W H=X I=M J=S K=A L=N M=R N=J O=V P=Y Q=C R=B S=H T=D U=Q V=I W=L X=O Y=G Z=U