Puzzle 1
Starter clue: E = H
WYIYFFQEXNYLTEQXCUJVIDVYQEXC'UEJLUX,YHNYFFQEXKCJQEXCUQJJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 80
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: Y = E
PRYCDANJSTFJWYDRCTYDBSJOKPBYSTDRSJKYYRPGZTSPWJRCDNPBFC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = T
GVODGAMFQQTCYAHCOAOGKSOCODYIFQQGOIGQQFOQYFAOQYFPYFWFBS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: R = E
ZFZUNYRBMXWERWFJRLNWJMFAZWEFDBRNHNGBZYNFRIZENBRFFRINUR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = E
RGCUIGACGQUZGLGGFAXBXZZULFUIWGRXYACGKGNWPWXLXYACGRXKNF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: N = T
WZVUUMECBSNWVAYCBNOA,VEOPONNOENDVAUVEKOMECBSNWVAYWOUYCZ.
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)
- “I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=V C=R D=Y E=H F=L G=W H=N I=M J=O K=B L=U M=K N=D O=Z P=X Q=T R=J S=P T=G U=S V=F W=I X=E Y=A Z=C
- “One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.”— James Russell Lowell, 1844, Poems (1844), Columbus (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=R C=D D=A E=C F=L G=U H=K I=V J=I K=M L=P M=B N=W O=S P=O Q=J R=N S=T T=H U=Q V=X W=F X=Z Y=E Z=G
- “If this ball does not stick to the wall it will at least leave a mark.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=S B=R C=O D=H E=Y F=A G=I H=N I=W J=P K=C L=Z M=B N=X O=T P=V Q=L R=G S=K T=D U=J V=F W=M X=U Y=E Z=Q
- “It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case.”— Oscar Wilde, 1895, The Importance of Being EarnestCipher key: A=H B=R C=K D=O E=G F=T G=P H=D I=C J=L K=W L=M M=Y N=A O=B P=Q Q=X R=E S=J T=F U=S V=Z W=N X=U Y=V Z=I
- “We have the same need to command a view of the religion of the world.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=T B=C C=H D=J E=Z F=D G=E H=K I=V J=X K=R L=N M=Q N=L O=Y P=G Q=S R=W S=U T=P U=A V=B W=I X=O Y=F Z=M
- “Small profits and often, are better than large profits and seldom.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=N B=F C=O D=H E=R F=Y G=W H=U I=Q J=Z K=G L=V M=P N=T O=E P=B Q=K R=X S=I T=J U=L V=A W=S X=C Y=D Z=M