Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = N
ADVFOVJIHYLNWDHWV,DWWHIOWIONWMAONXJA;NWMADVFOVJUDIAOV,DZWHUNWIOHEPONXJA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Money Cryptograms Set 13
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: Q = A
AYKVFQNYQZBOYQFKL,RDVHJJRWFY,ORKLAEQNY;RDZHK,WIQZIXYQZJAYKOYQFKLQZBVFQNY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = I
QDMEDLHTKDLOMYAAYL-HNLHN,TLJ,THXENOQNTXNHXYLSITQN,DLEDHHDAZSDMDXIHRCSDAN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = E
JAGRHHPGZJGERGPVGTOGVZPVOAGTHCDALHPQSSJAGRCPRHZGZHLGERPGZZVTDJAHCDAJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: J = O
NXLPPJATEWZSOTUUEUXHTRDXETN,EXN,XARBJJNPJMET;REZJMNBTRNUXAZJMNYJMUJZEWTN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = O
WBOBEBCSSNXUMSNHQY'ZUBCZHVUHQNQLNOHY;OBEBCSABBSMSNHQY'ZVNOUBCONQLNOGONBQ.
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)
- “His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1770, The Deserted Village, Line 61 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=Y C=X D=I E=F F=B G=Q H=O I=C J=T K=Z L=P M=D N=A O=E P=W Q=U R=K S=J T=V U=R V=S W=N X=L Y=M Z=G
- “Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.”— Alexander Pope, 1738, Imitations of Horace, Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle I. Book I. Line 103 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=D C=U D=F E=R F=L G=V H=O I=Y J=S K=T L=H M=Q N=C O=W P=J Q=A R=I S=X T=Z U=K V=P W=B X=M Y=E Z=N
- “Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1852, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=W C=B D=I E=H F=X G=J H=S I=Y J=D K=V L=N M=C N=E O=G P=Z Q=R R=U S=L T=A U=F V=Q W=K X=T Y=O Z=P
- “The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=H B=Y C=U D=G E=X F=Q G=E H=O I=V J=T K=J L=F M=Z N=K O=C P=R Q=A R=P S=L T=N U=M V=I W=D X=W Y=B Z=S
- “Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.”— William Shakespeare, 1600, As You Like It, Act V. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=P C=G D=M E=S F=X G=Q H=K I=Z J=O K=V L=C M=U N=R O=W P=H Q=B R=A S=D T=E U=L V=J W=T X=I Y=F Z=Y
- “Go to your rich friend's house when invited; to your poor friend's without invitation.”— Portuguese proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=P B=O C=U D=X E=Y F=L G=A H=E I=K J=B K=Q L=V M=F N=I O=T P=J Q=N R=M S=R T=Z U=H V=W W=G X=C Y=D Z=S