Puzzle 1
Starter clue: E = O
DBDYYNCSAVZSVEFHRHENZBBJRBGSEGASYJENAHZSRKEEHHSRADHASDFVENBJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 110
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: L = O
EWJLAYVUZEMUJLAZEIISVUYSYQVLMQUVERJZFEDFLCIJILYSMJLAZERFOLVU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: A = N
HOEIYNCKAWBCKEAEZPKDYAR;HEDACRCVFHPYWRCNHAWBCKEAKAWYZMREAWHAP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = A
TDTVTUNXKZTARYILHFFTHVKTUTVAYRKNRDDRMPHDGGHKIRRDDGTVGHKGTVAK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = T
RSUJIHPXRBN,QURSURJUXJRURPRUHXJ,TMCHXOJRHRSMFMHFCMQSHUXSLTURUR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: K = O
K,YBLEAGOMLSGMK!YBLEAGOALZMK!YBLEAGOMLUDZMK,OKECOKYUOTYBLEEBGZMK!
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)
- “It is surely beyond a doubt that people should be a good deal idle in youth.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=L B=T C=R D=I E=O F=N G=P H=D I=J J=H K=G L=X M=Z N=U O=W P=F Q=C R=A S=E T=V U=K V=Y W=Q X=M Y=S Z=B
- “If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=U B=G C=N D=C E=I F=H G=Z H=V I=L J=Y K=X L=O M=S N=K O=M P=B Q=P R=T S=D T=Q U=E V=R W=F X=J Y=A Z=W
- “I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. VIII. Chap. IX. 1784 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Y C=O D=M E=A F=L G=Q H=I I=V J=P K=U L=X M=S N=F O=H P=G Q=J R=T S=K T=C U=Z V=B W=D X=W Y=E Z=R
- “At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than his hands.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=D B=Q C=X D=T E=Z F=L G=H H=I I=F J=K K=S L=V M=R N=B O=P P=W Q=J R=E S=G T=A U=M V=N W=Y X=U Y=O Z=C
- “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1861, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=V B=R C=L D=X E=D F=P G=K H=O I=C J=S K=Z L=A M=E N=Y O=G P=U Q=W R=T S=H T=B U=I V=M W=F X=N Y=Q Z=J
- “O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!”— William Shakespeare, 1599, Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=H C=K D=L E=T F=S G=E H=Q I=V J=F K=O L=A M=D N=U O=N P=X Q=C R=J S=R T=G U=I V=P W=B X=Z Y=W Z=Y