Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = E
JWSPILWPIJTVVJWFKFFZYFSOFQGFKMFWTEFFQVTSLFUPISRSFFUPC,MFWTEFKJSFQLJWFQFUPISOQUFYFQUFQGF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- E
- F
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Medium Cryptograms Set 192
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: O = E
LOTQROUGIGPOUGEMOQKMUGVTEZCEZCJOOUMOTEZCJIEBO,DAJUEJLOWETAOEKOZONETNOPENRQZIGZWONJEUQGZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- E
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = E
KFCSLOEFBKLVCHKFCUGJCPKQKBUGICGHHDTCPGBPKBLUUKFCULEH,JQIGPKDCBRFGHPCULKGBOKBKFCULE-SLVCP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = S
UYBFBQAKZDYMVYOKJBFZAXZKDADYQUMUAKDZIMARKAMUMKZMA,QZIDYQUMUIKBA,QZIKZDYQUHQUBFMQEMUDKFXA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- F
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = E
JIAPSO,GIPIMFATAAZJIEPLDIJIAIUKPVEHTUPBVPLEJTMZOTJMJATRAZ,OHAMZOSAMFAZPGHTOPRJPJIAHETPZT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- E
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: E = T
UWYNTWEWUXTZUAYDKWNKUKZMTUZYLXTHRJZETUZJJAEKTXEKWYHU,WEARHKEYAEWEUTJCEAVTJTCEWYLWUAXLTX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- E
- F
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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)
- “Throughout all these experiences we have enlarged our freedom, we have strengthened our independence.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=B B=J C=M D=K E=V F=E G=C H=Q I=U J=T K=S L=G M=W N=Y O=I P=O Q=N R=F S=R T=A U=D V=L W=H X=Z Y=P Z=X
- “We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape, just as we value a general remark in conversation.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=U B=P C=D D=J E=A F=B G=O H=X I=C J=S K=G L=W M=H N=R O=E P=M Q=I R=K S=Z T=L U=T V=F W=V X=Y Y=Q Z=N
- “The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the law-maker.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=Z B=O C=E D=U E=W F=H G=I H=S I=V J=B K=T L=A M=Q N=D O=N P=R Q=Y R=F S=M T=P U=L V=K W=G X=C Y=X Z=J
- “The reason which governs knows what its own disposition is, and what it does, and on what material it works.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=S B=E C=X D=W E=L F=R G=Y H=M I=D J=V K=O L=Q M=I N=B O=G P=U Q=A R=P S=F T=J U=T V=C W=Z X=K Y=H Z=N
- “The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=E B=F C=K D=G E=R F=V G=W H=I I=H J=T K=P L=U M=A N=J O=D P=O Q=X R=M S=L T=S U=Y V=C W=Q X=Z Y=B Z=N
- “Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.”— Epictetus, 108, Discourses (recorded by Arrian), Chap. XVII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=V C=F D=W E=T F=K G=Y H=G I=M J=L K=H L=D M=P N=C O=J P=Q Q=Z R=U S=X T=E U=S V=B W=I X=R Y=N Z=A