Puzzle 1
Starter clue: B = E
MNBZBGBYSILDFGBGYCWNBLNCDLBUPTRZCJCGZ;MNBDCLBYNSFYELNCDLBUPOSSY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Money Cryptograms Set 12
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: S = E
LSXFPLXWATLSSDYJFWSGGOXBSISXJPZ;YVWSDZXWATQGOSPVTGTQGPOQWSZXWAFVS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = O
D,QDZFIODHF!AHIDZXWTMS-RXZZEPDOIWDSAOXTGIDIWVFVZIDMXOTAMXGXTMDSFTYJ!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = E
WASMVJMYRTFBETMSRDJKIEHMRHYFSWK,SEAKJSWKISOJKNISM,KISNSZZHBHMVNISWK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: E = O
KEIUIWPBYJGYJELMBZAJTFTZALCYBAJCMEEWTFTDESTKEIDALCYLEWPSAQZDTYPZTS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: C = E
NCXSKCUCSOACIFXSFNCYLPFURKCSPYCA,AVFSPVPFORQXCP,AVOSPIVHPRAFXCYSAHCO.
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)
- “The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Z B=E C=I D=M E=D F=A G=N H=K I=U J=V K=Q L=S M=T N=H O=P P=F Q=J R=Y S=O T=B U=L V=X W=C X=W Y=R Z=G
- “Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=D B=K C=Z D=R E=J F=L G=S H=G I=B J=U K=P L=H M=V N=W O=M P=T Q=O R=Q S=E T=C U=X V=I W=N X=A Y=F Z=Y
- “O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!”— William Shakespeare, 1597, King Henry IV, Part I, Act II. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=G C=Z D=O E=Y F=S G=D H=U I=T J=K K=X L=J M=L N=Q O=R P=W Q=M R=P S=F T=A U=V V=I W=H X=E Y=C Z=N
- “Spending your money with many a guest, empties the kitchen, the cellar and chest.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=P B=R C=V D=W E=M F=U G=Q H=A I=H J=I K=T L=J M=N N=C O=K P=Z Q=F R=Y S=E T=O U=X V=D W=S X=B Y=G Z=L
- “You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=I B=W C=D D=F E=O F=B G=K H=Z I=U J=L K=Y L=N M=G N=X O=V P=T Q=C R=Q S=R T=E U=M V=J W=S X=P Y=A Z=H
- “We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945, Fourth Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=N B=Y C=E D=K E=B F=T G=F H=G I=D J=Z K=V L=U M=J N=W O=R P=S Q=C R=I S=A T=P U=L V=O W=X X=H Y=M Z=Q