Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Q = O
KVZGCKVQMTVQDUZGXDGAQCKVFDQTSAQQXDFDGBNQDKGDAGWGDGNQKVZMTVQKGBXDGAQCKVZMQTSLVFBWMZS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 23
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 = O
XAEMOIZFICQEYJMEXCAZQ:MIXAEMPQTRVINJETHQIODIQ,EHMIXAEMMLIHIMINPAYCAZCAYEHWPJCEATGEACJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: A = E
JLSAKUJSYAECDFDSEJLTFARSAOAKSEESFDUAJKPALJFASYAAOAKSE,RKUDKSJ-URBRIFARUBMRIQESJ-VJFFJM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = N
CUUQZUWRPIJKSOBLKSAUIVJDLKYF,SQBZPYLUI,PIQWPIISKA,PIQNLYFKSCPKQYUSQBZPYLUILAIUYXSKJILZS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = E
GYOBXXTEOTXEPXKYEVYAYFQPDDPBXEAKOOYAAYAPXEVYCKEKQY,KXDYAAGYOTXEPXKYETDYBQXCQTNEVYRBAE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: G = O
TUHUUFSGGWRGVKQPRKNJKONKQNJKPOEPJKYUAGJUKQNHSGGWRGVBGCPKPONCROPUHOUGJGVBJPENKUUOGHGAD.
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)
- “The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”— Benjamin Disraeli, 1870, Speech, Nov. 19, 1870 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=L C=U D=S E=Z F=I G=A H=Y I=F J=G K=T L=C M=R N=M O=Q P=V Q=O R=X S=N T=W U=P V=H W=D X=K Y=J Z=E
- “Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. V. Chap. IX (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Y C=I D=V E=O F=G G=P H=R I=E J=T K=X L=H M=W N=C O=L P=A Q=S R=B S=Q T=U U=Z V=J W=M X=K Y=F Z=D
- “Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800, The Death of Wallenstein (translation), Act V. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=Y C=P D=I E=S F=R G=C H=Q I=L J=O K=N L=F M=W N=X O=V P=B Q=K R=A S=T T=G U=D V=M W=Z X=J Y=H Z=U
- “Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice.”— Jane Austen, 1817, PersuasionCipher key: A=S B=U C=G D=B E=X F=H G=K H=Z I=N J=Y K=R L=I M=J N=W O=Q P=A Q=D R=P S=E T=F U=O V=L W=M X=V Y=T Z=C
- “We can not continue these brilliant successes in the future, unless we continue to learn from the past.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=S B=A C=F D=L E=T F=B G=W H=Z I=Y J=Q K=U L=G M=D N=M O=C P=I Q=R R=P S=K T=O U=X V=H W=V X=N Y=E Z=J
- “We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more than books of political science or of private economy.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=M B=P C=L D=Y E=V F=D G=O H=N I=Z J=R K=T L=Q M=J N=A O=C P=I Q=H R=S S=B T=W U=E V=F W=K X=G Y=U Z=X