Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Z = E
BJZXYSTKHZJYHWYUUZXVXETYSZYUHYPG,JZEJVXGHJZVHEJZSVUUZQJVSHZUW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 13
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 = E
RWMSRWKGMHUERWKVZQKGNBKBSBZZUMQBZ,GNBUMGZ,UKVGNBSRYIRMGZRIXQIB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: R = T
RMSEFTZKRNP,HSRMSRESKERSRZRSTKE,CWGTKYERTRMWOWTOGWHMTSKMUCSRSR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: U = I
CPVGMSLFUVEUHSMVSIFUVGML-UOBZUO!GFPXMPZGJMP'VZGFUVCUMGLNSMQZTZUO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: N = E
TVUNQWMOYQNRTKCOFWMNQNZPQUYSXOVUTYWQBKNCSVEWSWMSYNZMSNPQVWMNI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: M = N
WTVMVABMVUAFOIOAFVTVJTPXUWMZDRXMWMTWYAIOMAXZXWMLAXUFVKOROVRKO.
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)
- “When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself.”— Dutch proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=J B=W C=D D=P E=T F=V G=K H=S I=Y J=H K=U L=B M=Z N=Q O=G P=C Q=R R=X S=M T=O U=L V=I W=F X=N Y=A Z=E
- “Our country abounds in the necessaries, the arts, and the comforts of life.”— James Madison, 1813, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=J B=E C=V D=X E=B F=P G=T H=Y I=F J=W K=N L=G M=R N=H O=K P=Z Q=I R=O S=C T=Q U=A V=D W=U X=L Y=M Z=S
- “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1861, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=F B=Q C=B D=J E=S F=C G=L H=W I=M J=D K=N L=V M=H N=R O=P P=Y Q=K R=T S=I T=O U=A V=X W=E X=Z Y=G Z=U
- “Destroy his fib or sophistry - in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again.”— Alexander Pope, 1735, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires. Line 91 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=V C=D D=X E=F F=H G=T H=B I=P J=U K=M L=Y M=R N=W O=N P=E Q=K R=Q S=O T=G U=I V=S W=L X=C Y=Z Z=A
- “Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1925, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=X B=Y C=L D=V E=G F=C G=Q H=J I=M J=Z K=B L=K M=H N=E O=I P=A Q=R R=P S=O T=U U=D V=N W=T X=F Y=S Z=W
- “I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.”— Edmund Burke, 1775, Speech on Conciliation with America, Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. II. p. 136 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=K C=Y D=U E=B F=H G=X H=Q I=M J=F K=L L=S M=N N=Z O=E P=R Q=J R=P S=V T=D U=W V=O W=I X=A Y=C Z=G