Puzzle 1
Starter clue: N = E
DJNGNXEUWNUZ,XUZNNZ,DWBIAXUTKWWAEWGNCHNGXBNUDE,WGDWDGILNM,WGDWTIDJNGXUTVNIMDJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Money Cryptograms Set 14
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: H = T
JRURANVRONHRLOBDUDASIDQHJDFROVULMNOLUHBREJ.RHDONSIDQJRAHLBPO,HJLPVJOLHHLULNB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = T
PAAOCGSGPAOCENOCGXPOMEXERBCOOEIEXOKMUROGMOZNPMKZCPKGOEOCGGJYGXZGZENOCGXPOMEX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = T
USJIWPLLUQRY,WJSBJNRHCSMRNPVMSRJFLBRWPWPSSMUWHCSMRIJJYLUWYLIUBDLSMUSLFNNJFWYPS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = E
DCPJGDEOGDCOCMUXNYJCOOEXIGDPGACZUSGPJOPSCMPLPYJCUV,-PYJCOOEXIGDPGZUXCBMPXXUGYKB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: J = E
RGQTJGJQWASGQSQIVHJWREWFQOGJKHISGJARISWJIIJA,DVSAEJIOESQAASESGJLJQKSGENSGJWRUG.
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)
- “There is no end, indeed, to making books or experiments, or to travel, or to gathering wealth.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=K B=M C=X D=T E=S F=J G=R H=P I=A J=H K=B L=V M=L N=E O=Q P=F Q=Z R=U S=Y T=G U=N V=W W=O X=I Y=C Z=D
- “His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1828, On John Dryden. 1828 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=R C=Z D=E E=C F=W G=Y H=T I=L J=H K=J L=O M=F N=A O=N P=U Q=D R=I S=B T=Q U=S V=G W=V X=P Y=X Z=K
- “All the wealth of the Nation ought to contribute its fair share to the expenses of the Nation.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1923, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=L B=G C=H D=Y E=O F=K G=E H=D I=C J=X K=R L=J M=I N=F O=T P=A Q=M R=U S=W T=V U=B V=Q W=Z X=N Y=P Z=S
- “A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=X B=M C=Y D=P E=C F=U G=F H=B I=W J=O K=Q L=S M=H N=R O=K P=I Q=V R=E S=T T=J U=A V=G W=N X=Z Y=D Z=L
- “Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, - a blessing that money cannot buy.”— Izaak Walton, 1653, The Complete Angler, Part I. Chap. 21 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=Y C=E D=H E=I F=J G=T H=Q I=G J=L K=U L=P M=C N=D O=S P=A Q=K R=V S=R T=X U=O V=F W=Z X=N Y=B Z=M
- “I have heard that a superior man helps the distressed, but does not add to the wealth of the rich.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=D B=Z C=X D=B E=O F=M G=H H=P I=S J=E K=L L=W M=K N=F O=N P=J Q=A R=I S=T T=V U=C V=U W=R X=Q Y=G Z=Y