Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = O
UPKMFMKMQHGFMUBFMZVQMFHPKBFBUBFMZVEQMSFHPKBV,HPKBKGVMFHBGCXMQWCKLFBKUPGAPHPKUBFMZTFKBAQMCKCBFXZPH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 207
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: Y = S
UJKLFKMXGGJFGHAGJAYTENNXVFNFUKAQ?UJAQAHAJOYZEOSSOGOAYMXU,JOYZEONNAGY,JOYDFYAY,JOYGAMEQAY,FMSJOYGQODTY?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = E
XCSKSANCDRLYDWCDNCRFNKWCZCNGDSRZ,-ZCNGDSRZIURFCZIGCNCKASINZRDRC,ZCNGDSRZIUUDXC,DSPZCNGDSRZIUMVZKSCZZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = E
RI,NAQQMAJERBZABQIRCOANZJGEVHOFBWILW,ERBJFIIGQMAWFACRERQMZRCAHISQMAGRAAPMAFAQMFZSQLEUSINNIPSEPRZRC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
EOJCSVIGFJXXFOUVODOEGENXO,PMKXWSWXOOVTSVMXOK,FMCCAOMBXFOSEGNEL,JVCGSXFJGOAA-ZEOCGFSKBOEHANKOXFOKHOVO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Y = E
JXYZQJGJIIFYGRBZJIYHYTQJYYKFNRTYUJXYTIBUJEJQJEIBEBEJUYBJENYJGRBZJXYPXIAYTIZYIMARPUYBRTJYZQBZYNEJ.
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 one nation wrongs another or wrongs many others, there is no tribunal before which the wrongdoer can be brought.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=C B=R C=B D=P E=M F=O G=I H=T I=X J=Q K=E L=F M=N N=K O=Z P=H Q=A R=J S=Y T=D U=W V=S W=L X=U Y=V Z=G
- “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=J C=G D=C E=U F=A G=T H=B I=P J=H K=Y L=M M=N N=L O=I P=V Q=R R=Z S=D T=K U=W V=F W=X X=O Y=S Z=Q
- “Men in great place are thrice servants, - servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, Essays, Of Great Place (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=Q C=E D=A E=Z F=H G=V H=X I=O J=K K=I L=P M=B N=R O=W P=D Q=J R=T S=N T=Y U=F V=U W=C X=M Y=L Z=S
- “No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=D C=G D=Q E=A F=R G=K H=S I=O J=C K=V L=M M=H N=L O=U P=W Q=T R=N S=F T=X U=Y V=B W=P X=J Y=Z Z=I
- “Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.”— William Cowper, 1785, The Task, Book II. The Timepiece. Line 411 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=P C=D D=V E=R F=H G=W H=C I=G J=A K=S L=K M=U N=O O=E P=J Q=X R=Z S=I T=M U=Y V=N W=F X=T Y=Q Z=B
- “The duty to obey and to execute embraces the Constitution in its entirety and the whole code of laws enacted under it.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1889, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=L B=N C=P D=Z E=I F=B G=Y H=X I=O J=T K=M L=Q M=F N=R O=V P=W Q=U R=A S=J T=C U=S V=G W=K X=H Y=E Z=D