Puzzle 1
Starter clue: R = E
BWRWRXYBWURURKDPWBBKVRRXYYCTVTIYRBWTMPVXMGMKBBKVXU,TJTVWAKLPLRRMBWTMPV;AKLBWTVTVBWROKMGTBTKMKAXGTVRXVRGRUR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Nature Cryptograms Set 54
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: E = H
SEWZGCWBCETPEBWVTMWVTHETFTVHWCTHHDSOBW,DHMHGHWUOSEWRHGCVCEDSSEDSTVCETPEEWPDHMG,HGBMGWVEWRHGCOHSTJEWEDVSBTWM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: T = E
YNNBPXPYLTHTYDIVXXCBXEWBAIPIPTAEBPXNTPTYEIR,PYLTCXDTVXXCBXEW,YNIPXGVPIPTKHYKCATFTSXETIPTKPYLTIPTIAHTIXRAVDAI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: P = T
PUAGAPPQTSGIT,FTEJIGQWFPPUAWYZGA,FGPUAYFGPPFGPAZVGNAAPG,QGGNAAPAGPYFGP,NDQPQTDAJAJODFTWAJZDAPUFTPUQTSGYZTSMFGP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = E
OFCMTNXCPUSWSOFCLOBIZZTCDHNSWSVILOBWNTMCUMTCXNSUSTHDCFCTVDHISBCTNKCVCSVCNQUBNSVXUSLONSONVQNSXCWSNXFWCQCJCSO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: F = T
HJJNDWFHANBFFVHFFVOUOBWSXFVBSPWXLXUFVTXEFVOIXSWFHSFWXJBIBFDAOXEFVBWPXGOUSNOSFHWFVOVHUNXSTHSADSBXSXEFVOZOXZJO.
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)
- “The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=F B=T C=V D=U E=M F=X G=D H=K I=B J=W K=O L=R M=N N=Z O=C P=G Q=P R=E S=Q T=I U=Y V=S W=H X=A Y=L Z=J
- “The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=V B=R C=W D=A E=H F=M G=O H=N I=Y J=L K=J L=Q M=D N=G O=U P=C Q=X R=K S=T T=I U=B V=S W=E X=Z Y=F Z=P
- “All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=I B=W C=D D=N E=R F=B G=U H=M I=T J=Q K=Y L=V M=P N=L O=Z P=H Q=C R=S S=F T=E U=X V=G W=K X=O Y=A Z=J
- “The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.”— William Shakespeare, 1595, King Richard II, Act II. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=V C=Z D=R E=D F=A G=S H=X I=U J=M K=Y L=Q M=P N=W O=B P=T Q=I R=K S=G T=N U=H V=F W=C X=J Y=L Z=O
- “The place won in the struggle by an industrial people can only be held by unrelaxed endeavor and constant advance in achievement.”— William McKinley, 1899, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Z B=R C=E D=B E=K F=H G=J H=Y I=U J=M K=X L=S M=P N=A O=T P=W Q=V R=F S=N T=L U=O V=D W=I X=C Y=Q Z=G
- “All must admit that there is nothing so worthy of the constant solicitude of this Government as the harmony and union of the people.”— Andrew Jackson, 1832, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=D B=I C=K D=U E=F F=T G=V H=A I=C J=L K=Q L=W M=B N=M O=E P=G Q=J R=Z S=N T=Y U=R V=H W=S X=O Y=X Z=P