Puzzle 1
Starter clue: P = T
LUQUPFRPFNBSPWUDKTVPIUBQIPUMBXTPTQPWUDNFQLATFVN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 7
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: D = E
DREVHJPEMFDRZCVRJDJPADC,VMOJFRKRMZJBDCDAJPE'FBDRC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = E
UWJASYQLNMLAVLZSYCQRRCESNNMCUA,SNNRWJTLGJMJZJKRLR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = E
QSVTCTYIBESMZ,QSVTCTYILUUZ,PXZMBNTNVDAXTYZTCTYGVYT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = T
PGGKNGEOFOPHOAHMCFTXAAIHAAMGHSZMYHFOGSXBOYPXFUYROP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = N
MLOWYHWYAMWBYEHFWX'CZYAXE:UXHULHMCSYAWILWBLGGWYGYAXE.
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)
- “Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=Y B=I C=Q D=U E=K F=A G=P H=J I=G J=M K=W L=D M=L N=S O=Z P=T Q=N R=C S=F T=E U=O V=R W=H X=V Y=B Z=X
- “Early to rise and late to bed, lifts again the debtor's head.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=B B=H C=D D=E E=R F=S G=U H=Y I=K J=T K=G L=C M=I N=Z O=F P=O Q=X R=A S=M T=P U=J V=L W=V X=W Y=Q Z=N
- “When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.”— Pliny the Elder, 77, Natural History (Naturalis Historia), Book VIII. Sect. 103 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=X C=O D=Y E=F F=P G=C H=V I=J J=E K=R L=I M=D N=L O=Z P=K Q=U R=T S=A T=M U=W V=G W=H X=Q Y=B Z=S
- “Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847, Poems, Voluntaries (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=I C=V D=N E=G F=D G=M H=P I=F J=Z K=Y L=A M=T N=C O=B P=J Q=W R=X S=H T=E U=L V=O W=K X=U Y=R Z=S
- “He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth.”— French proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=L B=N C=K D=G E=C F=S G=E H=A I=F J=V K=X L=Q M=R N=P O=T P=H Q=Z R=U S=D T=W U=M V=J W=B X=I Y=O Z=Y
- “I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower.”— Samuel Butler, 1663, Hudibras, Part I, Canto III. Line 877 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=F C=S D=K E=R F=U G=L H=T I=C J=Z K=G L=A M=I N=J O=M P=Y Q=X R=B S=D T=V U=H V=Q W=N X=E Y=O Z=P