Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = E
ADQTKNJZWJLQWLVWHIHACWPWDTHWQTK,VHQAVALQTKHTFEYFTVNWC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 9
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: A = N
TASHITRTAVIAJJHTO,DSZJNCWYEJYSUJAAIYYIBSOOTAYISAIYKJZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: E = O
MGTYUYOZWANPVETWEZAELAGTOEEN,SEKTNAPIEQTWUYCAAGTMUYOEM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: E = S
ZKIZUIILXEIEURUPIZOKEERLPKQF,ZUEUJGGFTPIQKEEUJUPQEIZPB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = E
LADBEGBDELSGQLADKGVPLESCDIGPYXLGLADBDGBIDGQLADKGVPLES.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: I = S
RAIYJTTDCSZWGSI,MDCYDIGBJTTIUGTDEZDQIRZSEIIZVPUJESZPJTI.
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)
- “If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=I B=G C=S D=F E=D F=L G=J H=R I=P J=A K=U L=N M=Z N=H O=K P=B Q=Y R=X S=Q T=O U=W V=T W=E X=M Y=C Z=V
- “In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=N B=F C=U D=C E=B F=W G=P H=V I=O J=E K=H L=X M=Y N=M O=L P=Q Q=Z R=D S=A T=I U=K V=G W=S X=J Y=T Z=R
- “When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=T B=Z C=A D=B E=O F=J G=H H=L I=C J=K K=V L=F M=W N=R O=D P=Y Q=M R=X S=P T=E U=I V=G W=S X=Q Y=N Z=U
- “He that trusts a faithless friend, has a good witness against him.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=P B=M C=Z D=Y E=S F=D G=O H=K I=T J=G K=E L=R M=V N=X O=L P=I Q=N R=F S=C T=W U=A V=J W=B X=U Y=Q Z=H
- “The property of the country belongs to the people of the country.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=H B=P C=B D=E E=R F=V G=O H=M I=L J=X K=C L=T M=W N=Q O=K P=N Q=F R=A S=Y T=Z U=J V=U W=D X=S Y=G Z=I
- “By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.”— Christopher Marlowe, 1599, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, to his Love (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=F C=W D=O E=D F=P G=E H=Q I=S J=A K=J L=X M=T N=C O=Z P=G Q=U R=B S=R T=L U=M V=N W=V X=K Y=H Z=I