Puzzle 1
Starter clue: S = A
VMORGMOOATBCWASXMDCMLGMOOATSPYHTSLOCUSPMLHTSLOCUSP;SPYGMMTUSPRSCSKTDYKASKSBPCOGMMTUSP,SPYGMAOSKSBPCOGMAO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Money Cryptograms Set 17
5 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: L = S
AJLZWWZLJEJXJSYICW,CJUWSAWLWYSAYSLATSLLSJCCYLJSQVWL,YEZCWYHWLEQSKYOSLEQKVKJESLQMVKWOWZWESMQKVQQKXWE'LMYOSL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = O
FBOTBDRSBIEJRJPG,FBOTBDRSBIDPNURS,ENFXNYPCMIBTNFZUBGGJFPJRSPTRSPFCXWPTBTRSPESNTNERPTBIRSPINTXJFOMBMCUNRJBF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = E
ZSIAFMSIIC-EBGS;VBXOSGOHKSEBIJG,HIUGATSFBTSGFOSCNYCHEHCANFOSTGSYKSG,GATSFBTSGFOSCTQGFZSGSFNYCBIJ,FAZVBIJBITAVS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = E
CLVEXYCBOJLBYD!ABYFMLQ,YDXGLQXVNALRXQZYDXNHXKNMHNRXXNKDLAUXKYLCDZHOLRX;QZWXNHDZHQZOOXTYXMWHDZHALBMWOXHHEVNKX.
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 (5 solutions)
- “Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.”— Hesiod, 700 BC, Works and Days, Line 25 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=I C=S D=U E=V F=Y G=P H=C I=Q J=K K=G L=F M=O N=W O=T P=N Q=Z R=H S=A T=R U=M V=B W=J X=L Y=D Z=X
- “His deeds inimitable, like the sea that shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.”— George Chapman, 1607, Bussy D'Ambois, Act I. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=Z C=L D=Y E=N F=G G=X H=V I=B J=I K=R L=S M=F N=W O=C P=Q Q=O R=J S=T T=U U=K V=P W=E X=M Y=A Z=D
- “No growth of cities, no growth of wealth, can make up for any loss in either the number or the character of the farming population.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=J B=O C=U D=W E=C F=N G=S H=X I=F J=I K=V L=D M=P N=A O=G P=E Q=Z R=T S=H T=R U=L V=Q W=B X=M Y=K Z=Y
- “Be not penny-wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be set flying, to bring in more.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=O B=I C=Y D=X E=W F=T G=S H=A I=N J=G K=V L=K M=P N=F O=H P=Z Q=U R=J S=E T=M U=D V=R W=Q X=C Y=L Z=B
- “Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above with ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.”— Alexander Pope, 1726, The Odyssey of Homer (Pope's translation), Book III. Line 285 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=U C=F D=H E=G F=K G=P H=S I=Z J=Y K=C L=O M=N N=A O=L P=M Q=W R=V S=Q T=X U=J V=R W=D X=E Y=T Z=I