Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = E
HAXGHLDCNGLGCAFGRJIAZCWXGHIHCAWGJWXGHCUWXHSGI,JCGYGGWIXJJYDCNHAAFGIAGGWXG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 157
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: S = N
PNRMSMBBLGH,JSIVNAJHDILBIVJDHMFLBKMDDJLSMSHQSGNDI,ILENDNYB-RLSIMJSNHMSHDQGN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = E
UBCBNDVUSYZYZBAB,TNFCSMKB,NDV'JADDMPDCIBYYZBFEQB,VMCSFBMBJXBEVYSBADPYZBMDCYZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: V = R
XTJDKQBCVXZVTOPZVEKTVYOCVTVSEVCSVTPPEQBOPCXVZXVXPJXHOCDCDXVOWDCBEZECDXVB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = E
XTIRVUXXUQTCAXTVRKZBUOAZHBRNKOBRPDUOWTPPRHK,DUOXUPRTKTCKZRFUFRCKDUOWRKRHK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = N
DMQQCOZETFQXWGOTWUEMYQWDZSOTPIUVVZFFTODUZWUEXWMZWZFDZXWXDUZW,WZDXGUELFXVQ.
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)
- “At leaving even the most unpleasant people and places, one keeps looking at the steeple.”— Lord Byron, 1819, Don Juan, Canto II. Stanza 14 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=W C=N D=I E=Y F=H G=E H=A I=S J=O K=X L=V M=R N=G O=J P=B Q=F R=M S=C T=Z U=D V=Q W=P X=L Y=K Z=U
- “We can afford, in the midst of this day of passion and unrest, to be self-contained and sure.”— Woodrow Wilson, 1919, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=M B=F C=V D=S E=B F=Y G=R H=D I=T J=I K=P L=O M=A N=E O=Z P=W Q=U R=C S=N T=J U=G V=H W=K X=Q Y=L Z=X
- “Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget the pale, unripened beauties of the north.”— Joseph Addison, 1713, Cato, a Tragedy, Act I. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=E C=R D=O E=A F=P G=J H=K I=G J=D K=C L=Z M=N N=Y O=V P=F Q=L R=Q S=I T=M U=W V=U W=X X=B Y=T Z=H
- “Each must refrain from arbitrary or tyrannous interference with the rights of others.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1902, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=L B=S C=T D=H E=O F=J G=X H=W I=V J=C K=M L=Q M=K N=P O=I P=N Q=U R=Z S=Y T=A U=D V=R W=G X=E Y=B Z=F
- “Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.”— Alexander Pope, 1735, Moral Essays, Epistle I. Line 20 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=R C=N D=Y E=B F=M G=J H=C I=K J=Q K=T L=X M=P N=A O=U P=S Q=W R=E S=Z T=I U=O V=F W=D X=L Y=V Z=H
- “The exposure and punishment of public corruption is an honor to a nation, not a disgrace.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1903, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=K B=Q C=X D=T E=S F=R G=D H=Z I=L J=W K=V L=G M=H N=Y O=P P=B Q=E R=J S=F T=U U=I V=C W=N X=A Y=M Z=O