Puzzle 1
Starter clue: S = E
LCSWSNSWKSRSWIHSMVXIPDTRDBETVRM,ASIXS,NDWPVS,IRMBTXDIHTWMSWAWSNIDHIRMXDNDHIRMWSHDKDTVBHDYSWPOIWSBSXVWS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Learning Cryptograms Set 27
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: M = O
DRMJMVMABJFAVYBVZFVYVMMJBKYMDPJMVBXLBZVMLBVCJMKTBRLB,JMZYBTAMFVXJWMJBKYMDPJMVXJIDMFPVMBIATXDJYDHPBTG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: L = E
AEIQKQKPQTLZLERABQKP.ABLHLIDBNITJKDLIMQAALEIVYJKW;DISVQUVJNLEQTKJABQKPMSADIMMIPLNQABIDJVVLPLLWSDIAQJK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: R = E
OTRZETPWRFNRCRZKRAVZRMVNZRNVQPCLYXRMKKVPZSVZR,PZATRMPZZVKQNVHEKURPNZKTRVKTRNKTNRR,EAVZVKNRFRPKHSURCCVZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = S
DTZIZQADYJYDZILEIKSAXFKWWLAXDIZXDYAYAXADYZYYZXUZKYHZILUQKDAUKXHKIZQAUKXKYDTZULIILXYUTLLGYJYDZIADYZGE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: C = E
NBYTCBCKCGLZVPYMCYLGJCEYVGQRAZZCMQZGSCKJ,YLMBYTCDKGAEBHLGHBNLEGQPVGSLDAHHBCHBKCYMHBYHHNCJHBCPHGECHBCK.
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)
- “Wherever general education is found, peace, virtue, and social order prevail and civil and religious liberty are secure.”— Rutherford B. Hayes, 1880, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=P B=S C=H D=I E=F F=X G=Q H=L I=A J=Z K=G L=W M=D N=V O=Y P=T Q=K R=N S=E T=O U=J V=U W=R X=C Y=B Z=M
- “I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=P B=E C=K D=I E=J F=U G=F H=M I=X J=N K=W L=G M=O N=Q O=Z P=S Q=V R=D S=C T=L U=B V=T W=Y X=A Y=H Z=R
- “Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”— Mark Twain, 1894, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonCipher key: A=T B=H C=X D=C E=R F=Z G=J H=P I=A J=O K=N L=E M=B N=W O=K P=G Q=I R=Y S=U T=S U=F V=L W=D X=Q Y=M Z=V
- “When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=D B=K C=S D=G E=I F=P G=Q H=M I=X J=Z K=T L=U M=C N=R O=W P=A Q=F R=E S=Y T=H U=L V=O W=V X=J Y=B Z=N
- “The merit system of making appointments is in its essence as democratic and American as the common school system itself.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1901, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=I B=J C=U D=T E=F F=G G=L H=D I=M J=Y K=A L=O M=W N=Z O=V P=Q Q=R R=B S=K T=H U=C V=X W=P X=N Y=S Z=E
- “I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1588, Essays, Book III, Chap. XII. Of Physiognomy (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=H C=E D=B E=G F=K G=O H=T I=X J=S K=R L=N M=D N=I O=Z P=M Q=F R=C S=W T=V U=J V=Y W=Q X=P Y=A Z=L