Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = O
KYEMUXFTBUNJFDMFSOYJ,YQNTFFLHFZQDJKTTOFMJH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 11
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: P = N
UWVYUJOTZPOHZPQENYOEWNLHM.ZPYHBWNIZP'O,LIWZP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Z = E
KCKVYFVBHKWBUGMZRKDFZSZLZZGFBLLLYVZGYFSZF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: P = T
PJOMOPHYJQPORHNPJQJQPOBYCERYEGDYEPJOMPQZO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = O
XJCLVCIXYGZGPIXJGTKIZNPGVCKXKYKYZGZCILGVZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = O
CGFUFYIOWIXZGCGYOQRIRDWUREWUROYDDWUREPWWA.
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)
- “I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”— John Dryden, 1668, Secret Love, or The Maiden Queen, Act III. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=V C=Q D=G E=M F=O G=H H=Y I=Z J=T K=I L=K M=R N=D O=F P=C Q=N R=B S=W T=L U=E V=P W=J X=S Y=A Z=U
- “Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=Q B=H C=X D=L E=P F=V G=B H=T I=M J=U K=Z L=I M=Y N=R O=S P=N Q=D R=K S=J T=C U=F V=W W=E X=G Y=O Z=A
- “A man is not a lord because he feeds off fine dishes.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=J B=O C=M D=U E=W F=S G=D H=T I=Y J=G K=A L=F M=B N=V O=K P=X Q=Z R=C S=H T=P U=R V=N W=L X=Q Y=I Z=E
- “These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage.”— Lord Byron, 1819, Don Juan, Canto IV. Stanza 93 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=F C=U D=Y E=N F=R G=L H=W I=J J=H K=Q L=P M=S N=I O=E P=T Q=A R=D S=Z T=V U=M V=K W=C X=B Y=O Z=G
- “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, HistoryCipher key: A=G B=M C=E D=W E=X F=K G=O H=Q I=A J=H K=S L=C M=B N=D O=Z P=F Q=V R=P S=L T=U U=J V=R W=Y X=T Y=I Z=N
- “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.”— Oscar Wilde, 1891, The Picture of Dorian GrayCipher key: A=K B=P C=T D=M E=L F=E G=H H=W I=S J=F K=X L=V M=Y N=Z O=N P=B Q=G R=A S=J T=D U=R V=Q W=O X=U Y=I Z=C