Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = E
APWMWDEJWYBNMWZHEAPETPNTWYAFNGQA,QWDEWJWBW,APHTETPHDZAPWLMWWFY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 108
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: H = A
HNMEKAHXURFHZAASHZSFAFZDFNEWEZQHANHNF:HXMEKZQHRGHRYNYXNMFUKAN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: X = T
CAXXASEBYXXBAYFWAEJAEFIQYXOSYLOX,XOEFZDJOQYXOEFVYAXKEFITXSYRA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: C = T
CPRRLQNDYZLEIOO,ILQCPICYOQNYKKYLIDUSCDICYD,CSKR,ZSOOYLRQIGRLQSC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = T
KYCMOCGBPPCNRRZBMPYLVPOGOYCCMRDJMCGSIKYJGOZCMRDJMCGCRCMPNKYZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Q = A
QFZNWJDFCQDGBQOQIMCQPVAXXMZNVVW,UXWZNWJDFCQDZXCVDRYFXIZVQOVQW.
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)
- “There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam A.H.H., XCVI. Stanza 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=M C=Y D=L E=I F=D G=U H=A I=G J=V K=W L=C M=R N=O O=P P=H Q=B R=J S=Z T=N U=X V=Q W=E X=K Y=S Z=F
- “A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: An hour may lay it in the dust.”— Lord Byron, 1812, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II, Stanza 84 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=Z C=W D=V E=O F=E G=L H=A I=K J=P K=U L=J M=H N=T O=Q P=B Q=M R=Y S=C T=G U=D V=X W=F X=N Y=I Z=R
- “Better a little in peace and with right, than much with anxiety and strife.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=E B=L C=B D=U E=A F=N G=O H=J I=D J=C K=Y L=G M=K N=Q O=H P=Z Q=W R=F S=R T=S U=V V=X W=P X=T Y=I Z=M
- “The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.”— William Shakespeare, 1602, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV. Sc. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=Q C=T D=R E=S F=V G=Y H=Z I=A J=G K=M L=N M=F N=C O=L P=H Q=D R=E S=I T=X U=B V=K W=U X=J Y=O Z=W
- “In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.”— William Wordsworth, 1798, Lyrical Ballads, Lines written in Early Spring (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=W C=T D=U E=V F=C G=S H=J I=R J=G K=I L=P M=H N=M O=A P=E Q=F R=O S=B T=K U=Z V=L W=Q X=Y Y=N Z=D
- “At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.”— Thomas Tusser, 1573, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, of Good Husbandry. The Farmer's Daily Diet (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=L C=M D=S E=V F=T G=P H=W I=N J=I K=X L=Z M=D N=H O=Y P=K Q=A R=B S=Q T=J U=F V=E W=R X=O Y=U Z=C