Puzzle 1
Starter clue: T = E
BTATWNQQCGQWSEWZUQGLPEUHTFWEBLPTBTULUQGLPTNFUL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Miguel de Cervantes Cryptograms Set 2
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: J = E
HSANQBJWJFDJYFWVFOYYSZJRSSASEJBNSTSZJFNFAJZJRO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = T
JSKGSMRFKLJTVJLJQPJSKPQOK,JSVDESQJLJQOWLJVJSKIVJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Q = T
QFAKMRVAOBAMQVYQFHVWSPQQFAHCDRSYPCLYCQFAHCBRHVN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: B = E
MFOMSSDWMBJBABYRFRFGBGBVWF,FGVFMYGVSSEWTATBTBYRIF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: H = A
EUVIHWWUDMHDEUVJIHPMHWOBHZMEUVJIHPM;HWOADUJM'AWUAUJM.
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)
- “Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1615, Don Quixote, Part II, Chap. LXXIV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=N C=K D=J E=I F=A G=F H=Y I=W J=Q K=X L=T M=C N=L O=U P=H Q=O R=Z S=B T=E U=S V=P W=R X=M Y=G Z=D
- “Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III. Chap. I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=N C=X D=V E=P F=A G=B H=F I=G J=E K=J L=Z M=K N=T O=Y P=I Q=U R=D S=O T=C U=Q V=W W=L X=H Y=S Z=M
- “They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1615, Don Quixote, Part II, Chap. XXXVII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=W C=Z D=U E=G F=B G=Y H=F I=P J=T K=E L=S M=A N=L O=C P=R Q=I R=D S=H T=N U=J V=O W=K X=Q Y=M Z=V
- “They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Don Quixote. The Author's Preface (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=P C=R D=L E=M F=H G=W H=I I=Z J=V K=Y L=F M=C N=S O=X P=U Q=T R=A S=B T=Q U=J V=N W=G X=D Y=O Z=K
- “It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III. Chap. XI (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=E C=Q D=G E=C F=T G=H H=X I=U J=V K=B L=K M=I N=J O=W P=F Q=Z R=O S=L T=Y U=P V=A W=R X=D Y=S Z=N
- “You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; and store's no sore.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1615, Don Quixote, Part II, Chap. XLIII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=H C=W D=T E=Y F=P G=I H=A I=C J=R K=G L=Z M=E N=X O=D P=K Q=J R=L S=M T=F U=O V=U W=N X=B Y=Q Z=V