Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
QLPJZSEVEQEPUJXONXNHVZOPMHSZQEXDLZGPRPPDGZUQVAPDVZOBPMZDMIXOPBPDPOZVVAMEJJHUPM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 175
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: A = N
QHOXAC-IXBOPDXVWBAQEQAWYQWYQDTBVWDXEBWYPACJAIXAB,AXWQTHQKDYBWYQWYQDIXABDXEBWYPAC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: X = N
KAWAJXWPKMUPVJPTRTXMQUSAKFPWJYKAWQWETUXUXSVFIRUZRTXMPUPJYYFXMTEWXKTRUEVJQKTXZW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: I = T
IUOLMVVQOBPDIPAUMBIPDMTYB(PAKUMWUIUOLPBISTDITDO)BSPMQTQQ;IUOGKMQQWUOKPZDLOTIAPDZB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = T
RZOQUHOQOKRAUDYUUSDUJSMGMUKOADJIYZRTGRZRZOYDOJROMRLOKOAGRRURZOFUIKRDPSGMRDGFRM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: H = A
PHJIYAGTJUAGPZHYPHJGMPMEHJUMICUJ,HPKJIYPTJMHJUMICUJHCHGP,HTGZAOAZMVATRHJAYHPKCHT.
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)
- “The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1889, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Y B=G C=W D=N E=I F=K G=V H=U I=M J=F K=J L=H M=D N=P O=R P=E Q=T R=B S=C T=X U=S V=L W=Z X=O Y=Q Z=A
- “A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IX. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=E C=G D=S E=M F=J G=V H=W I=D J=U K=Y L=X M=Z N=K O=R P=I Q=A R=Q S=B T=L U=C V=F W=T X=O Y=H Z=P
- “The honest disposal and right use of the remaining public lands is of fundamental importance.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1905, Fifth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=H B=Q C=J D=Z E=M F=U G=W H=K I=B J=O K=T L=X M=D N=Y O=V P=S Q=R R=L S=G T=A U=I V=P W=E X=N Y=F Z=C
- “The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1580, Essays, Book II, Chap. X. Of Books (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=S C=X D=R E=Z F=Q G=Y H=K I=T J=G K=W L=M M=I N=V O=E P=O Q=L R=B S=P T=A U=H V=D W=C X=J Y=N Z=U
- “The movement for good roads is one fraught with the greatest benefit to the country districts.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1903, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=F B=J C=K D=R E=Q F=C G=I H=V I=U J=A K=N L=B M=S N=Z O=E P=Y Q=M R=T S=D T=W U=O V=X W=P X=L Y=G Z=H
- “Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=E B=Y C=G D=V E=F F=X G=I H=A I=U J=T K=D L=Q M=O N=L O=B P=N Q=Z R=W S=P T=S U=H V=M W=K X=J Y=R Z=C