Puzzle 1
Starter clue: H = T
KOXSKSHPBWIBKBJKKPCMHNSHMBFO,SWUNOVJKPHTSCSPWNHHMORPDOIJHJKOEPBRSHPBWN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 17
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: T = E
VOTDLBBFJRVQXVYXZWTKOLFYSKOXZTVOTEFZSTJKXKMTYYXKVOTETJTPRVKLPRJSFKVZQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = E
LCGVKVFFMF!XCQVFSGMALQFDCVZFQOAVZN!GJJAVZCS,ZNABKNHAJAVF!ZNABKNLCSSFH,KVFCZ!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = E
HCFBOZIRFXAZDRALFDAFZMCISBDLHUELQQDZHNFOSLHMBLQIOFLDHCLRRINOFSFFDXFBYZO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = T
DRNWNQWNLNGNWQYKXXFHWXDNEDMXCLQKQMCLDDNSHDQDMXCL,PBDDRNLBWNLDMLEXJQWFMEN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: V = O
WVPKPGOCLVICDUVLFNSXUADFDXLGODLDUHAJ-MPGSMARVJAWVPFAODGNDJKVRMAAGVPOVRXO.
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)
- “Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.”— William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1770, Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=O C=G D=K E=V F=M G=W H=T I=F J=U K=R L=X M=H N=S O=E P=I Q=Z R=L S=A T=Y U=D V=C W=N X=P Y=Q Z=B
- “The community at large should share the burdens as well as the benefits of industry.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=P B=M C=V D=C E=B F=U G=J H=Z I=Q J=N K=S L=O M=W N=X O=H P=F Q=Y R=I S=D T=E U=K V=T W=G X=A Y=L Z=R
- “Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!”— Lord Byron, 1812, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II, Stanza 73 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=U C=A D=P E=Z F=E G=I H=N I=B J=M K=G L=F M=C N=H O=W P=J Q=D R=V S=L T=Q U=X V=R W=Y X=S Y=K Z=T
- “The aroused conscience of humanity will not permit failure in this supreme endeavor.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=C B=A C=H D=N E=W F=E G=B H=T I=U J=K K=J L=I M=F N=P O=R P=Q Q=L R=S S=M T=G U=Y V=X W=Z X=D Y=V Z=O
- “There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=K B=U C=N D=T E=C F=D G=V H=P I=Y J=W K=G L=S M=I N=E O=Z P=B Q=A R=H S=M T=J U=F V=X W=R X=O Y=L Z=Q
- “You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=E B=Z C=K D=A E=V F=G G=S H=D I=C J=R K=M L=N M=B N=W O=T P=U Q=P R=F S=H T=Q U=L V=O W=Y X=I Y=J Z=X