Puzzle 1
Starter clue: S = A
OYODCXSLESBPQWOSDLPEONQGLPBQKZQXNSBBSISGLSBQKPOLSBEOSRSVOB,REOPEODKDQXBWOONQDSLCSUBPDSZPGQL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 25
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: A = T
ADRKRVKRYRTXOADRTFKIBTDFVAAVXOAFADRARVQDXONTXADFZATFKBG,VOBADRVBHVOAVNRVKXGXONYKFJOFO-VQAXFO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = E
KQNHUHTCZZBVZXJQLXLXONMVIULDHGQJJHTNZAQLTDRCZMXP?Z,JIQJPHVHLJNIZMDPPKHDDLXNMVIQOZTOHZMNYQDQVH!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = N
WEWRJEOQEXQAWYIORJCCHJVFANTCIPDIP,EXJEJRWADCIGJAWABNRRIRRWNANKJDNNPKNOEQAI,GQRELIWATJAENKJTWKI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = E
SYGFMYZGOVAJGYCFOACFWGOXLOCTGRYBJWUYOMHRVARMFOOCFWBVGJWBSYJOWHVMBCTLOCTGRYSYMMCWMGRYXVWAFSAJGY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: C = E
NTWUZQCUGILTXIFXIFQXOLPIVJCWNVTXCVNJCOQNWTURZCGHQXIFPYSGTVO,XQGDCICDCTTCNPOCVXIOZTPHZXWIZWGIRWIC.
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)
- “Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=J B=S C=Y D=R E=H F=Q G=I H=X I=G J=Z K=F L=N M=D N=P O=E P=T Q=O R=W S=A T=U U=B V=K W=L X=M Y=V Z=C
- “There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.”— Laozi, 1891, Tao Te Ching (James Legge translation, 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=D C=Y D=H E=J F=O G=S H=V I=L J=M K=R L=Q M=P N=G O=N P=K Q=C R=E S=Z T=W U=X V=A W=B X=I Y=F Z=U
- “Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!”— William Shakespeare, 1595, Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=K C=B D=L E=X F=J G=M H=E I=H J=T K=W L=I M=U N=S O=G P=D Q=A R=Y S=Z T=R U=V V=C W=Q X=N Y=P Z=O
- “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”— Jane Austen, 1813, Pride and PrejudiceCipher key: A=N B=P C=L D=G E=T F=K G=M H=Y I=E J=A K=F L=B M=X N=O O=R P=D Q=U R=S S=Z T=W U=J V=C W=I X=H Y=V Z=Q
- “Let us extricate our country from the dangers which surround it and learn wisdom from the lessons they inculcate.”— Andrew Jackson, 1833, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=C B=D C=O D=Q E=K F=U G=T H=W I=P J=A K=J L=F M=S N=B O=R P=V Q=Z R=H S=L T=M U=G V=I W=N X=Y Y=E Z=X
- “From the man bringing his bundle of dried flesh for my teaching upwards, I have never refused instruction to any one.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=Z B=Q C=E D=V E=K F=G G=A H=C I=N J=L K=X L=B M=J N=F O=S P=U Q=H R=Y S=W T=R U=M V=D W=O X=I Y=P Z=T