Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Z = R
MSZMZQLSRRZAEQZGQMLKZGXESOAGXAHZKHFAGQCGXAXASZGX.
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Money Cryptograms Set 5
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: B = T
XTAVYBFETVDCTBEVDBYTFARYBSV,CTYETVDPVUNBOJVDBTPRB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = E
QYGPOUDQYAPPSYMXPGBBVHGHLYEPGQPQKPADYZIHASUHQPGB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: E = L
FNTSWEYNAUZOEEMSGTQLRM,SJAIYYNKYEVRSJFOGTXLWEOWWET.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: B = E
FUCMFOPFWPCUTPOBWFPPOBKEPMBBWBMJUBABOFPOFEBVUPCON.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: N = E
FNJFILRNGNYMAIOM'RDYLNUOLRNLCFNYGNYMQIIYIYGNYMYLVF.
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)
- “Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth.”— John Milton, 1645, Il Penseroso, Line 81 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=W C=N D=P E=S F=K G=T H=C I=D J=X K=I L=M M=F N=J O=V P=G Q=O R=L S=A T=U U=Y V=Q W=Z X=H Y=B Z=R
- “Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=V B=T C=N D=S E=D F=Y G=Z H=M I=X J=B K=F L=C M=Q N=L O=H P=W Q=G R=I S=U T=O U=A V=E W=J X=P Y=R Z=K
- “Money is more eloquent than a dozen members of parliament.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=R B=T C=J D=S E=Z F=C G=N H=A I=P J=W K=B L=D M=Q N=K O=Y P=E Q=M R=X S=L T=V U=I V=H W=G X=U Y=O Z=F
- “Great lords will have much, and poor folk can give but little.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=D B=Y C=J D=Q E=L F=G G=V H=Z I=P J=N K=F L=U M=H N=R O=I P=X Q=M R=C S=A T=E U=S V=K W=T X=B Y=O Z=W
- “Trust not your money to one whose eyes are bent on the ground.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=B B=E C=U D=P E=H F=T G=I H=Q I=C J=A K=W L=K M=S N=D O=N P=O Q=Z R=X S=F T=M U=R V=G W=Y X=J Y=V Z=L
- “He who is everybody's friend is either very poor or very rich.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=B B=X C=T D=F E=M F=H G=V H=K I=O J=W K=U L=I M=Y N=E O=D P=J Q=P R=S S=L T=G U=N V=C W=Z X=A Y=R Z=Q