Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = A
UGRVDKFJSUCDLVWDTKUGWALRCKSS,LVWDQKPLWALRZDQKTHKGQQTDKTP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 11
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: B = A
VPJBYBOBC,ABQPVMOZFGBRRMCBRR,MYVBRRCFARFFQLSFCVMYRMQPBKBMC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = E
ISZXPECZSDKIDBPGCFKXZCFE;RPZKXRFBBXOCBCFACKFDWXOCDXOCXZCC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = E
OWUZIASVACGCWARALJXUMWNLJNQAGMLAGNHPGCGUKDMHICXQPDDCWAGG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: E = A
AVIVZRCDHCDSHCZEZUYCZDFVZDFEASHCOEAVEKGPSMZEXGDJEOWENEGA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: I = E
JRGZRYKOHIMEKIELYTRTIEZKGVIKQFZIEQXIZLYGR.EKVGBIZWEK'L,YWIEK.
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)
- “Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1841, Ballads and Other Poems, The Rainy Day (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=Z C=F D=E E=Q F=C G=N H=K I=J J=H K=A L=S M=G N=W O=X P=Y Q=D R=T S=L T=R U=I V=O W=M X=P Y=V Z=B
- “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.”— William Shakespeare, 1601, Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=A C=N D=Q E=J F=O G=R H=Y I=X J=W K=G L=U M=I N=C O=M P=E Q=K R=L S=P T=D U=B V=H W=Z X=V Y=S Z=F
- “Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=V B=L C=E D=N E=M F=A G=K H=Q I=O J=G K=S L=Z M=J N=W O=H P=I Q=B R=F S=U T=P U=X V=Y W=D X=T Y=C Z=R
- “Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”— George Washington, 1790, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=E B=Z C=I D=P E=Q F=J G=S H=B I=L J=Y K=F L=R M=U N=T O=K P=A Q=H R=V S=D T=M U=O V=G W=N X=C Y=X Z=W
- “Never put out your arm further than you can easily draw it back again.”— English proverb, 1859, Recorded in Walter K. Kelly, Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated (London, 1859)Cipher key: A=N B=Z C=U D=T E=A F=H G=I H=O I=V J=B K=S L=Q M=D N=G O=C P=L Q=X R=P S=Y T=J U=M V=E W=K X=W Y=F Z=R
- “By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=P B=H C=J D=Q E=A F=U G=T H=W I=E J=B K=N L=S M=C N=X O=G P=Z Q=D R=Y S=K T=L U=F V=O W=M X=V Y=I Z=R