Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = O
UIRUAWQARLUARMAJIYCDOHIDXIUELCAQIODMUACI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Money Cryptograms Set 1
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: L = E
WCOTNMBMXPCDLVLLLFLXHVZLQCOTNXLFLDSLYCCD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: M = R
UDLAQAQMOXRRMLPSYPDLXXOVMLUPEIRMSMUPNUPJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: U = O
TODKQNUUVWUULYTQYWQXXUYMDWLTDKUCXBDXSOVK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: R = L
TRTNHUFEWRHERTNTDDWY,OYTJZFAJRYSEYYNFBKRH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Z = E
PYDNPXCLNXAYEJGZNHZUZMFMYLZZKEZILRYMDYPZW.
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 knows how to beg may leave his money at home.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=O B=C C=M D=A E=I F=P G=X H=L I=E J=B K=F L=S M=T N=J O=Y P=R Q=N R=W S=D T=Z U=H V=U W=K X=V Y=G Z=Q
- “Could a man foresee events he would never be poor.”— French proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=G B=M C=O D=R E=K F=V G=I H=T I=X J=Q K=Y L=E M=A N=D O=U P=F Q=W R=Z S=B T=L U=J V=S W=C X=N Y=P Z=H
- “I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.”— William Shakespeare, 1604, Othello, Act II. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=C C=T D=H E=S F=L G=M H=W I=F J=G K=Z L=A M=R N=K O=Y P=N Q=E R=O S=D T=X U=I V=B W=Q X=P Y=U Z=J
- “He is a poor cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”— English proverb, 1859, Recorded in Walter K. Kelly, Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated (London, 1859)Cipher key: A=U B=F C=W D=I E=J F=V G=Y H=B I=Q J=Z K=S L=K M=L N=P O=E P=D Q=A R=M S=G T=H U=O V=R W=C X=N Y=T Z=X
- “A lady richly clad as she, Beautiful exceedingly.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816, Christabel; Kubla Khan, Part I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=N C=M D=S E=C F=I G=V H=Y I=K J=U K=G L=O M=P N=D O=B P=J Q=W R=L S=X T=A U=R V=Z W=H X=Q Y=E Z=T
- “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”— Samuel Johnson, 1791, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. VI. Chap. III. 1776 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=Z C=U D=M E=C F=W G=H H=D I=P J=K K=X L=T M=R N=A O=G P=N Q=J R=F S=Q T=S U=V V=I W=Y X=B Y=O Z=E