Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
XAVPFXUPWBXAKLPCIKPUT!QPKXAVPFXUP!IAJKLPCIHPTOXWAJOPAPIKLFPITITKPPJKLIKDAXCTLYTUYJPU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Lord Byron Cryptograms Set 5
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: N = E
OXSJMAJRGMXRUNDBSGANROXWAXNS,YBJANKNSMBRLNLAXRARHHAXNRKWMAHNMPWBHLXRUNLWGNRMAXNVLJL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Z = E
CSZFYGPCQHPAUYYEYPFQVQCSYP,QPRFQVQCSYPUYYEAYPCSZAZQ;QPRFGAHPOCSZVZQPSYGVQUYPZ,HRVZQFZRCSQCOVZZLZFHOSCACHUUNZXVZZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: U = E
PZUCUUGUEPSYGMEPZUQTUPDZUVAJGVYTUTYSPITUPNPZUVTUYTOXNJV,PZUWUYAWUEEVUEUTPNAPZUBJGV,PZUQYEPUNAAUUWJGMEIGUBSWNOUV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: S = E
QMEMHEEMSTSJSPERSPSCOTRSWWFUA-GWHLS,RFEMQUSKHFPJGFPFEKQPCOCFUFJESP,EMHEFCFAMEHWWKQPASEEMSMVCHUPHLS,HUTMHEFUAUQQUS,WQBSXVEQUWOMSP!
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 (5 solutions)
- “Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed that knows his rider.”— Lord Byron, 1816, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, Stanza 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=P C=W D=K E=Q F=M G=F H=V I=A J=D K=T L=H M=Z N=J O=B P=E Q=Y R=L S=X T=S U=R V=C W=U X=O Y=I Z=G
- “Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did.”— Lord Byron, 1819, Don Juan, Canto I. Stanza 83 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=U C=K D=B E=F F=Z G=N H=L I=G J=I K=P L=D M=S N=E O=C P=W Q=J R=A S=R T=M U=V V=Y W=O X=H Y=Q Z=X
- “The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.”— Lord Byron, 1819, Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 86. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=P C=T D=W E=K F=M G=U H=I I=X J=Y K=V L=C M=Z N=B O=G P=N Q=A R=D S=H T=Q U=L V=R W=J X=F Y=O Z=E
- “The keenest pangs the wretched find are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.”— Lord Byron, 1813, The Giaour, Line 957 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=M C=K D=C E=S F=B G=N H=Q I=U J=I K=Z L=J M=G N=O O=Y P=T Q=W R=X S=P T=R U=E V=D W=L X=V Y=A Z=H
- “Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And hating no one, love but only her!”— Lord Byron, 1818, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, Stanza 177 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=V C=M D=K E=T F=I G=P H=A I=Q J=S K=F L=C M=H N=J O=Y P=R Q=O R=W S=E T=D U=N V=U W=L X=B Y=Z Z=X