Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Y = T
JCPNCUPVKYEECBDEKYVRYVYLCRANSNKYEYVJGUNKCEWUJTVXEWY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 3
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: V = O
SCUMKPVBVXKMJBKCXIZJPICDVZMSTCMCIVVEBCPUTVZGEDK.DKVPK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Y = E
CPFWYEPFTYDZNKYYTFVCFFCPYKWTYWYKXYJCDFCNFKCPYVWYQXYW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = A
MGLITKDQMHGUHMGLITKDLRWMAGBMWGAGUEMGIKET,OMGIKETGUHORWM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = E
YAJNOEGWXNGXWXZOHYGZAQGON,POXZGNMAQQGON,HAZOIXGHYGAQQGON.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: D = S
YJJYRGDQDRWRDDGYUSGDAJTWXASJWGOSURYDUSRNQTXRYDJHCYJUSRT.
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)
- “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”— Oscar Wilde, 1892, Lady Windermere's FanCipher key: A=G B=M C=I D=P E=O F=Z G=K H=X I=W J=L K=R L=H M=D N=E O=J P=F Q=C R=N S=V T=Y U=S V=A W=U X=B Y=T Z=Q
- “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, MeditationsCipher key: A=C B=M C=A D=B E=D F=Q G=L H=P I=G J=I K=E L=V M=T N=J O=Z P=N Q=K R=F S=W T=H U=S V=O W=Y X=R Y=X Z=U
- “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1859, Letter to Henry PierceCipher key: A=X B=G C=T D=N E=W F=O G=Q H=A I=B J=I K=R L=C M=J N=F O=K P=H Q=L R=Z S=U T=D U=P V=M W=S X=V Y=E Z=Y
- “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”— Benjamin Franklin, 1735, Poor Richard's AlmanackCipher key: A=M B=K C=J D=O E=H F=Z G=A H=D I=L J=U K=T L=R M=E N=G O=W P=C Q=B R=I S=P T=Y U=N V=X W=S X=Q Y=V Z=F
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”— Mark Twain, 1894, Pudd'nhead WilsonCipher key: A=O B=P C=Z D=K E=G F=L G=E H=N I=B J=U K=D L=Q M=Y N=R O=A P=M Q=F R=X S=W T=V U=H V=J W=I X=S Y=C Z=T
- “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”— Charles Dickens, 1865, Our Mutual FriendCipher key: A=W B=K C=A D=S E=X F=M G=I H=F I=V J=O K=C L=Y M=P N=B O=G P=J Q=U R=E S=H T=R U=T V=Z W=L X=D Y=N Z=Q