Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = O
MQSMKMYCYBZYCCWKKPKRMFCKSRMKECQ,NECHRKHHMWKSCHKRQCYHKHMQWC'.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 94
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
KMKJFOWUKAVJKAVDJOVNFAYPWOVHOJJOWJFKVJOVNFAYPWOVQVOMKJFOW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: E = S
AZWEXJXMWVQBVEAMXVBNTEQXZWEXZVQWPNTPWEWNVAOBVQAFEBZPMXZWE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
DGKZFZIEGGDNIPIPGEWSGGMGEDPWIKZGEWFKDPWIKZGEFZIQGUWIGIZXE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Q = N
GOLUGT,JNQJXETN,GQIKNTT-EUNIOGQKXTTQLWGRRULQWON,-GQIQLLWBNUVGQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: V = E
SXVOOVHMOCVKCAVZGVEFOYAFCMYR,JATCVOCWXXYVDVTSVHMOWGGAMYFVH.
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)
- “He who has a glass roof on his own house, must not throw stones at others'.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Q B=G C=S D=C E=U F=I G=Y H=T I=P J=D K=O L=J M=H N=M O=X P=F Q=E R=N S=W T=B U=V V=Z W=R X=K Y=A Z=L
- “A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=I B=G C=X D=S E=W F=H G=Y H=B I=Q J=T K=A L=J M=F N=C O=E P=D Q=O R=U S=Z T=P U=M V=N W=R X=V Y=L Z=K
- “One simile that solitary shines in the dry desert of a thousand lines.”— Alexander Pope, 1738, Imitations of Horace, Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle I. Book II. Line 111 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=A C=J D=Z E=S F=U G=W H=P I=B J=M K=G L=X M=L N=R O=F P=D Q=H R=Q S=C T=Y U=V V=T W=E X=I Y=K Z=N
- “We do not see with the same eyes what does and what does not relate to us.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=K B=F C=Q D=W E=S F=N G=E H=G I=T J=X K=D L=V M=Y N=I O=C P=H Q=R R=B S=M T=J U=L V=P W=A X=U Y=Z Z=O
- “A moral, sensible, and well-bred man will not affront me, - and no other can.”— William Cowper, 1782, Poems (1782), Conversation. Line 193 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=H C=Z D=V E=B F=G G=A H=Y I=D J=S K=W L=O M=P N=E O=M P=U Q=N R=F S=J T=L U=R V=C W=T X=I Y=K Z=X
- “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”— Alexander Pope, 1727, Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=M C=H D=V E=C F=T G=P H=D I=Q J=F K=W L=Y M=I N=J O=S P=Z Q=U R=G S=B T=R U=K V=E W=A X=L Y=N Z=X