Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = E
BNJUOJLUNGATGGYLUNGSDLFGTUCYLFSASYLGYLGQHDRG,TJMGUNJUYUHQLTKJOCUDJTQOOGTTVQSTDSZYGH?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Money Cryptograms Set 15
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: I = E
VUIUYCILYAVUIWICJHSQDDNTTYVAYWIMIWVYSIWNVIIQVUIWJTOILIWMIOCYMIWVGYWLISA-LIWMQTFXINSVU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = T
FVCYQGDNQDQYDTDMNTCDTFVYQAVYCTCV,QCLYRDNVGDQZVQDNRXYQCLYDTDMNVYDR-LQGDRYQAVCTCVDR-FRHHRE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: E = A
UNUXDIOZNYENYQYEXGQNNQJVQEIXDMYEBUIRUNNYEIVEIZDNYQJX,GQTEPXQYQUXJUTY,EILVEIZDNYQJXEJQWDDJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: I = T
ERIOCXOEIUVXOHXGHIECA;VC,MYWOXVLOJIVEHIECDYLPXELEIHOE,TQOLIQOCOECOLVDYUIGEMHIVSOSVGPQITYIQYI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: G = E
EXVLRLCGUGTFGTFZTFVLHYLCCATVCGUGJLLRVLRL,KATWGIFATRMGGYKAPUKAGF,TYRWLLUOGY'FKLVVTJGFWUEYKGF'WTITKGF.
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)
- “What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?”— Sir Walter Scott, 1826, Woodstock, Chap. XXXVII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=W C=K D=O E=Z F=G G=E H=R I=J J=A K=B L=N M=V N=H O=C P=X Q=U R=P S=L T=S U=T V=F W=M X=Q Y=I Z=D
- “The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941, Third Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=F B=X C=P D=C E=K F=G G=Y H=B I=E J=U K=M L=S M=V N=A O=D P=Z Q=I R=J S=L T=N U=H V=T W=R X=W Y=O Z=Q
- “Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches to-day to save nine to-morrow.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=V B=Z C=N D=T E=W F=M G=Y H=R I=P J=B K=L L=D M=C N=H O=F P=Q Q=A R=O S=G T=I U=X V=E W=J X=U Y=S Z=K
- “It is only that he has better means of having it than many others, because he is rich, and many others are poor.”— Jane Austen, 1813, Pride and PrejudiceCipher key: A=K B=V C=Q D=O E=A F=J G=B H=W I=N J=R K=X L=D M=F N=T O=L P=U Q=E R=G S=Z T=C U=I V=M W=P X=S Y=H Z=Y
- “After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Don Quixote, Part I, Book III. Chap. VIII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=P C=R D=V E=A F=Q G=U H=S I=T J=Y K=J L=N M=L N=Z O=E P=G Q=H R=F S=B T=W U=C V=O W=K X=M Y=I Z=X
- “If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=Z C=W D=V E=I F=S G=E H=K I=L J=G K=C L=O M=B N=Q O=M P=U Q=J R=D S=X T=A U=R V=T W=P X=F Y=N Z=Y