Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = T
PNWQPPQGPDQEGSNVZEPENVEVFVRVXVNHVAFVZNRGINGQIFPDQGOAQIPFAAPDFPHFOZQFGEVQFGPDACNWMQSPO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 190
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: N = T
YJWRNVWRCROKRVNQVTTZRLTTIJFOXJFN,LOXNCROQRWLPTLFBCLNNCRVUYNFDVXVNPVOOJNSOJQVOBVNZRIJUR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = E
EUGXGIGTQGHQMGSRMASHKGRJHDSSUGEGRSUGT,YRMERBLOGGMZDYSGVGTSRYXSURSSUGBKGRXLHKGSUYXNGMLG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: J = T
BSJTWKYJPSZWTSKJQKVQKFKCZ,TWCWJQSCARNSJQKTKYYWCZRTLJWJQSGRTRNQSZCHBSNJQKJLWMSCTRJNDRTZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: J = T
ZTKYJMTJYKJRMHFSMHDSFFEITXAJTYABTEFARBRMJJORJSJDSFFEITXAJTYA,FSPAXSIJKA,RIADRIZJTSJBAFQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: L = A
QDAULBGDXDLHLTQPLCCRILMNKXJDMHKLJUGMQDCLVXJXBMQMHHXJLJAQDLQAFAJRBAMYDVXJTLBIXMBQQXDMU.
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)
- “To better their condition in an unknown land our forefathers left all that was dear in earthly objects.”— Andrew Jackson, 1830, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=L B=G C=Y D=H E=I F=A G=R H=W I=F J=V K=P L=Z M=J N=O O=S P=T Q=E R=U S=C T=M U=Q V=N W=B X=K Y=X Z=D
- “Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before.”— Jane Austen, 1813, Pride and PrejudiceCipher key: A=J B=G C=H D=P E=X F=U G=Q H=Z I=F J=O K=C L=A M=V N=T O=N P=Y Q=W R=E S=K T=L U=R V=I W=M X=D Y=S Z=B
- “Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.”— Oscar Wilde, 1895, The Importance of Being EarnestCipher key: A=K B=Y C=X D=U E=W F=J G=E H=O I=V J=B K=M L=S M=L N=G O=F P=D Q=P R=A S=T T=R U=H V=C W=Z X=N Y=I Z=Q
- “Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IV. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=L C=R D=K E=M F=Z G=F H=U I=X J=T K=A L=G M=V N=S O=J P=B Q=H R=I S=E T=N U=Q V=P W=O X=Y Y=C Z=D
- “Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.”— Izaak Walton, 1653, The Complete Angler, Part I. Chap. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=S C=M D=W E=P F=L G=J H=G I=R J=T K=U L=C M=N N=X O=H P=K Q=F R=A S=I T=O U=Z V=Q W=Y X=V Y=B Z=D
- “The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=E B=N C=L D=H E=X F=V G=W H=S I=P J=R K=F L=A M=I N=D O=Z P=U Q=T R=Y S=K T=C U=M V=B W=Q X=O Y=G Z=J