5 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.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
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)
“Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=N B=I C=G D=Z E=R F=Q G=A H=E I=D J=C K=V L=T M=K N=H O=W P=J Q=F R=B S=M T=X U=L V=Y W=U X=P Y=S Z=O
“A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.”— Phaedrus, 25, Fables, Book IV. Fable 23, 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=T C=O D=V E=G F=N G=M H=D I=F J=A K=E L=I M=Y N=R O=X P=B Q=K R=Q S=Z T=S U=P V=C W=J X=W Y=L Z=H
“The policy has been not to inquire into the wisdom of laws already enacted, but to learn their spirit and intent and to enforce them accordingly.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1871, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=C B=Y C=V D=I E=F F=O G=R H=K I=E J=Q K=U L=Z M=J N=D O=S P=H Q=X R=T S=B T=M U=G V=P W=A X=W Y=L Z=N
“The free public school, the chance for each boy or girl to get a good elementary education, lies at the foundation of our whole political situation.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1906, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=X B=V C=L D=Q E=M F=B G=T H=Z I=P J=D K=I L=R M=E N=K O=W P=A Q=G R=U S=Y T=F U=H V=N W=J X=S Y=C Z=O
“Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=T B=V C=P D=H E=L F=M G=K H=F I=W J=S K=I L=U M=O N=Q O=N P=D Q=A R=Y S=Z T=X U=B V=G W=C X=J Y=R Z=E