Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = E
GDPZODCVKNIIFQOCZMQJVVCNZNZKPOJBPVQNVVPVVCNZNWODPDFAJZACZR,ECBPODPENLPNWMNERCOSPKNAPVCZVJOCJSEP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 202
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: Q = T
HRCDFOWGQUVQWBWGEQUFCAXUFHUUVKKWCD,UVKKWCDTMDQZE,VCOFSQURMRNDWGBWDQHVGWSMZZE,QURMXFZQSFCOFQQRNWDR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = A
ZJSOBGBU,UZNOSOUGOIWQ,DZUQMJSQ,NZSOTTFQMQVD,COSFKZSRBVHGQV,QLJOTBDIZNZXXZSDJVBDIOVFQLJOTBDIZNWJSFQV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Z = E
ARSZTUATHQHEZVEWZTZYHKTZVZSQXUTKOOVZTZLUOYEYGKOZFYOHYREWZHUARSHZRHZKRSHUNZTCASJVZREUXEWZLZULOZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: A = T
AQRNBQEHCEBAQRAZDAQIZRCEARMDIKAEAQEORBQEKEJRFA,ICPAQRNBQEKEJRFAIZRCEARMDIKAEAQEORBQEPRKFYQAFCFA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: N = I
NPWFSCNGDMSEZGVMZGWFNECSMPNGJAENWZLMTAGFNCNGCWNGBWC,ZGJWFSUSZLNJS,WFSFQDSIAUMJINMMBAESUAQGJWAFNE.
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)
- “When this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold it becomes insatiable.”— William Henry Harrison, 1841, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=M B=K C=I D=H E=L F=U G=W H=X I=R J=A K=C L=V M=G N=O O=T P=E Q=P R=D S=B T=J U=Y V=S W=F X=Q Y=Z Z=N
- “Consider that everything which happens, happens justly, and if thou observest carefully, thou wilt find it to be so.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=G B=V C=N D=S E=Y F=I G=R H=C I=M J=X K=P L=Z M=U N=B O=D P=K Q=T R=O S=F T=J U=H V=A W=E X=W Y=Q Z=L
- “Our aim is, so far as may be, to secure, for all decent, hard working men, equality of opportunity and equality of burden.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1906, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=J B=I C=H D=T E=V F=D G=M H=G I=Y J=U K=W L=Q M=C N=F O=A P=X Q=E R=K S=R T=L U=S V=N W=B X=P Y=Z Z=O
- “Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.”— James Buchanan, 1857, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=U B=X C=J D=W E=T F=V G=C H=S I=K J=G K=A L=P M=Q N=B O=L P=Z Q=Y R=N S=D T=R U=O V=M W=H X=F Y=I Z=E
- “They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=T B=W C=N D=U E=O F=I G=B H=K I=A J=V K=L L=P M=Q N=Y O=S P=D Q=H R=E S=F T=Z U=J V=X W=C X=M Y=G Z=R
- “If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836, Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=C C=S D=G E=M F=H G=N H=V I=W J=D K=J L=B M=L N=I O=Q P=F Q=U R=X S=E T=Y U=R V=P W=T X=K Y=Z Z=A