Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = O
DNAVSMNAMQVNDAJWWSJUMQVSJOAYKRAATV,JOAYKDNSMQVSVSSORAATQVN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Medium Cryptograms Set 97
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: B = E
ZVIBEBAZVSZXMRBIVABYWQQXMSQMZQB,VQXBAZXMRBIVABQMZQBQXMSYWQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: T = S
CTYYOVSTBPMAZCFYNXYODVSMATCMBDYTZCQT,TBXPCMCMNSQVMBDYTBPXB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: C = E
YTVIGCZVOBBFWWCGZDCGQFIYVMTYHDIPTYCWWFGVZDTECPIBVORBOCHOV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = A
BWMWORJEFAOJOADXNERXESDXKMK?QENFWDRSUODJNKOREJ,-AOJDRJEFOQUM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = E
NUXANEONXERVYRQXNUAHWEJAYRQXNUARVJNGHDULRDAEJAEJHDUKAVRXA.
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)
- “Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”— Quintilian, 95, Institutio Oratoria, nes Oratoriae, X. 7, 21 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=Z C=U D=T E=V F=B G=C H=Q I=D J=A K=G L=Y M=W N=H O=M P=X Q=I R=F S=E T=L U=R V=S W=P X=K Y=N Z=J
- “Some persons have more wit than taste, others have more taste than wit.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=R B=E C=D D=L E=P F=K G=J H=Q I=M J=B K=G L=F M=A N=U O=X P=Z Q=T R=V S=N T=C U=Y V=O W=I X=H Y=W Z=S
- “I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start.”— William Shakespeare, 1599, King Henry V, Act III. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=T C=I D=H E=X F=K G=C H=V I=J J=Q K=W L=M M=N N=G O=Y P=A Q=P R=B S=U T=S U=F V=O W=Z X=R Y=E Z=L
- “Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Q B=L C=E D=H E=V F=O G=R H=D I=U J=K K=G L=W M=Y N=X O=I P=M Q=B R=P S=J T=A U=Z V=T W=F X=C Y=N Z=S
- “Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, - man is not a fly.”— Alexander Pope, 1734, An Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 193 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=W C=J D=I E=O F=T G=U H=D I=Q J=N K=E L=Z M=Y N=R O=A P=K Q=F R=S S=P T=V U=L V=B W=H X=C Y=X Z=G
- “A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860, The Conduct of Life, CultureCipher key: A=E B=J C=Y D=N E=T F=M G=V H=I I=Z J=H K=B L=D M=W N=A O=P P=K Q=U R=O S=Q T=X U=G V=F W=S X=R Y=C Z=L