Puzzle 1
Starter clue: J = T
HMLQHBDLHDYPQLMSMUDJMTMOBJYVPIIPLJUEJYPLBJYPQOBJYZMIBJBHQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 12
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: C = T
BRTHGCEZCCYQCZBYACRCFROUBGZSUEQZERIAYCHR,OZZMAEDUCCFUCZEOQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: S = E
VZZYCSOGKSHTEHNSKISBXOCSTT:ZUBSBGK,HKUSRSCOGKTWZCKIESDWDVDHU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: Y = O
UAPUNPTYXVANPXCYKTYXDVUYXZIADMRZZYHPAKPDTPYQAPXCYKTYXDUANI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: P = E
WUBP,OKLBWFUHPNXJYGKPPFRKJGZOPNXAOZPKVYBWF,ZKBWQPOXBGWXJURWJJ!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: A = N
VATPKVSZQATBTGDJBTCYVECACAUIKJADIKCIPKTFCA'IYTCGJAIKTTBTAJAD.
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)
- “Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1775, The Duenna, Act II. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=I C=X D=E E=Y F=Q G=J H=C I=L J=T K=V L=N M=O N=K O=W P=A Q=S R=F S=M T=D U=R V=G W=B X=U Y=H Z=P
- “We must not try to write the laws of any one virtue, looking at that only.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=I B=W C=T D=G E=N F=H G=S H=U I=V J=P K=B L=X M=K N=J O=L P=D Q=Y R=E S=F T=M U=A V=Q W=C X=Z Y=R Z=O
- “Good repute is like the cypress: once cut, it never puts forth leaf again.”— Italian proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Q B=C C=R D=A E=L F=J G=U H=I I=H J=M K=T L=W M=Z N=K O=P P=X Q=B R=V S=E T=S U=N V=G W=F X=Y Y=D Z=O
- “He that you seat upon your shoulder will often try to get upon your head.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=E B=J C=P D=R E=K F=B G=C H=F I=D J=Q K=N L=M M=W N=A O=X P=T Q=G R=I S=V T=Y U=H V=S W=Z X=U Y=O Z=L
- “Ay me, how many perils doe enfold the righteous man, to make him daily fall!”— Edmund Spenser, 1590, The Faerie Queene, Book I. Canto VIII. St. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=M C=J D=B E=X F=N G=D H=P I=V J=L K=O L=W M=Q N=R O=H P=E Q=K R=F S=C T=Z U=Y V=U W=A X=I Y=S Z=T
- “One should never give a woman anything that she can't wear in the evening.”— Oscar Wilde, 1895, An Ideal HusbandCipher key: A=N B=V C=A D=G E=M F=C G=R H=P I=T J=I K=H L=B M=X N=F O=Q P=S Q=D R=J S=U T=E U=Y V=O W=K X=Z Y=W Z=L