Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = E
HMHTRJZHAUMHVSUFVHKEXTHGUQEJTFJTHLTIUZVQSIZSHSIV,IZGKHVVFJZHR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Money Cryptograms Set 11
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
JSLGNXLHJHDGTXNTLXAWQVEXKLKZDAAGNXBEYNJSLXQXLEJHNVXFLNGZLEAJS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: G = A
GXGRSPMGUJBGDDJSPTBIRJCZKPGC,GRKVGUUYRFCYTSMYJSABCJZVBIRKUGZPGC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = O
GCENYFRDKKFJGFJXLRFETRFGKFJSHDXV,GCENFJEYFRDKRFPFLKGFJXLTRFGKFJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = E
XZXVZXD,QKMYAVJEHVJSMJESJHXFYXHMYNYSH,AYYWMQHVJHYSJSMYNPQVTHSJVY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = E
YIODNVYSAZDBAO,EQABPODNTEAFIHYLXYL,KBPPDBDLZATAFOKRKBPDBYLLDLXAZ.
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)
- “Every one gives himself credit for more brains than he has, and less money.”— Italian proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=G B=W C=P D=K E=F F=M G=D H=E I=A J=O K=L L=B M=V N=Q O=Z P=J Q=T R=Y S=H T=R U=I V=S W=X X=C Y=U Z=N
- “The forests if properly guarded will form another great source of wealth.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1903, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=L B=M C=K D=I E=A F=C G=F H=S I=X J=T K=D L=E M=J N=O O=V P=Q Q=G R=Z S=H T=P U=B V=U W=Y X=R Y=N Z=W
- “A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1770, The Deserted Village, Line 141 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=O C=R D=L E=K F=G G=A H=J I=U J=T K=D L=B M=W N=Q O=V P=E Q=Z R=N S=H T=C U=S V=P W=X X=M Y=I Z=Y
- “With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=P B=G C=I D=E E=T F=O G=W H=S I=X J=U K=Y L=D M=Q N=H O=A P=B Q=J R=N S=R T=K U=Z V=F W=V X=L Y=M Z=C
- “A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.”— Benjamin Franklin, 1757, The Way to Wealth (Poor Richard, 1758), Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=C C=X D=Y E=W F=V G=B H=S I=L J=O K=F L=J M=H N=G O=U P=R Q=I R=Z S=T T=D U=Q V=N W=P X=A Y=E Z=M
- “If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=E B=N C=J D=O E=S F=L G=C H=W I=F J=X K=A L=T M=Q N=U O=Y P=D Q=P R=B S=V T=R U=Z V=G W=K X=H Y=I Z=M