Puzzle 1
Starter clue: D = E
JLBUTLDUBSTBBCNZKK,PXZDUXDJUCCDLBXIJXHYBTDYEDIBSSDIJUDQDI-IZXEDIKZSDJUCDQDI-KJITDIPJYZPSJXYZBUYBYEDZUCZQZCMJK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- D
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- H
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Money Cryptograms Set 18
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: A = O
DKKASWDRRWYVSRQCDWQPAZYHYQZAWBODFJQZ;DFZYRTYKKVQDNAAWDBBASFRAHSCYHASWMYQTCZAFARPAZYHLDFZBODFJQYFDNWANAWRYAF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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- D
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: N = A
ASNUDVDRNUDHTNTLNENOMEMTUJUSGAACMVHSJGBSMENRQNJXMRHTUMEBCNUMUIMBHBGCNUDHT,XMNCUI,NTLEHSNCJUSMTAUIHVHGSRHGTUSQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: H = E
ZAHUZNUDHXMD,RDVURZQUEAUDARSUDOZLEARYHMHTRZKMHDKIZHRZ,UBRTTKAHUQZRDVMHQHCHRQT,KAHMRKHQDHEKRQ,RDVKAHQXEJZCLQHOXTV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = E
PNCUHHVSAZPQCGKZCYTXKZKPCIDEIYKQCVDYYTJDVCILHV,ZHPNDPSCEIKJKPTZNDYYEHPQCPCSUPCIKEPHSCEIDJKPT,EHVGDEPCRDZUCVDPCIKEPHJVKSC.
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)
- “Among men of good will, science and democracy together offer an ever-richer life and ever-larger satisfaction to the individual.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Z B=O C=D D=E E=H F=P G=X H=Y I=R J=A K=L L=M M=U N=W O=J P=S Q=V R=B S=F T=G U=N V=K W=Q X=C Y=T Z=I
- “All our attributes are modified or changed; and it will be a poor account of us if our views do not modify and change in a proportion.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=O B=C C=S D=A E=K F=N G=X H=F I=Q J=G K=L L=Y M=V N=P O=H P=M Q=E R=T S=U T=W U=Z V=B W=R X=J Y=I Z=D
- “Gratification and amazement struggle for supremacy as we contemplate the population, wealth, and moral strength of our country.”— Benjamin Harrison, 1891, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=G B=P C=L D=I E=M F=V G=U H=O I=H J=S K=Q L=D M=E N=A O=Z P=J Q=Y R=C S=R T=N U=T V=F W=K X=W Y=X Z=B
- “She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel as twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.”— William Shakespeare, 1591, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=F C=P D=N E=C F=Z G=B H=E I=Y J=K K=T L=U M=W N=M O=G P=Q Q=R R=A S=V T=L U=I V=D W=X X=O Y=J Z=S
- “The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.”— Robert C. Winthrop, 1881, Yorktown Oration in 1881 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=Q C=E D=A E=N F=K G=W H=O I=D J=C K=I L=F M=G N=H O=Z P=T Q=B R=X S=M T=Y U=P V=R W=J X=V Y=L Z=S