Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = E
WYJAGWVNUABSUDDTOGQYCYAOBJNAYJGGANGWUCYXEIGUAAUDGCAJIGXRJGQANGIGOUIQXYINBJAUDGCAJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 182
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: Z = I
GXQOVGOVJYXAKPAFXJVNZRZACFVCJPJKMXTNZKZJMYCTFZAZOVOXVEZKJYXNZVRZAPFEZKJVEUVNPFZKB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = T
HSKPVVCBITHSVBHSKPVOKXRWKRHUIRRVHJKOTVZIHKCHVDIXCUXKCTHVXLDTHSVAHRIHTVRIZCTLPXIUK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Z = E
LOZBAXJTEBAATMZTLYFLOZKWU,ITVTAMOZNZVJVIDJVZ;KAHLCUKOZMIKEAJTEYF,ITVIKLINANLMADZKJVZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: N = E
KCINTKZNFAKCPGNYRPNZO!WNPKCINTKZN!RCBPGNYRQNOUKFCBUNCNRPGTNROROPNNBPGRPHCKYOGMOZMBNZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: R = A
ARKHQNMICK,WMVKCRXGHNV;KCRXG,RHCOGVKFROHNV;KFRO,RIVTNMUTKZRXGHNV,ANXSIGRPMXGQTGHKSIROHNV.
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)
- “Most emphatically we do not wish to see the man of great talents refused the reward for his talents.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1905, Fifth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=T B=I C=N D=L E=G F=Z G=E H=V I=R J=S K=J L=X M=B N=H O=W P=K Q=D R=U S=C T=Y U=A V=P W=M X=F Y=O Z=Q
- “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1830, On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. 1830 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=Y C=U D=Q E=F F=L G=W H=V I=X J=S K=T L=Z M=H N=R O=N P=A Q=K R=D S=G T=B U=M V=O W=J X=E Y=P Z=I
- “The good faith of the Government can not be violated toward creditors without national disgrace.”— Ulysses S. Grant, 1874, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=U B=F C=D D=W E=J F=K G=P H=T I=A J=B K=E L=S M=Y N=X O=V P=G Q=Z R=N S=H T=I U=C V=O W=M X=R Y=Q Z=L
- “The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=M C=L D=B E=G F=P G=Z H=F I=A J=I K=S L=T M=W N=R O=H P=Q Q=J R=X S=C T=N U=Y V=D W=K X=V Y=U Z=E
- “Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed that knows his rider.”— Lord Byron, 1816, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, Stanza 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=D C=N D=G E=X F=U G=H H=K I=C J=L K=O L=F M=I N=E O=S P=T Q=V R=A S=J T=M U=B V=Z W=Y X=Q Y=W Z=R
- “Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.”— Sir Walter Raleigh, 1655, Poems, Fain Would I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=K C=D D=V E=Z F=M G=E H=N I=L J=Q K=I L=J M=U N=O O=Y P=S Q=W R=A S=P T=H U=G V=T W=B X=R Y=X Z=C