Puzzle 1
Starter clue: L = E
KNNVXKVVXHEDMFOVUSQLEHULEHEVMELLVXLOLHRXYMUHORDMFOVUHLEEVKYNL,MUQLUNS,KOQIUMEILUMFE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 21
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: O = A
OWOIWOQDHIRIRYHDRNDVOBRRMMDDM,JZGAOHHDHRIGROIRGFDVOHONYIDGRJDOVBVOADHOBOYIYIHDOHRI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = A
ALUBXJOEZFQZXTCPEXJZABHZHCFCUPHZJFHOZXJUHPEPLWLFHMHPEXPCZ,MJZKHDLCZHUILFTLNZHUALNHP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: B = E
BJBEOZWNWXBLPHDHLBVKHGEWMPNNRNPBPRLREHLTIERUWNRUBLNBEWLMNPBIKCGWZDBEJWZBRUPWDZRKLNEO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: D = T
DILMWOBXBDVLDQKFULMNHULAUYOXIUXLDBKMPLTIKLNAKMPDBDODUDQUDIOUHUIFLMUMDHKXBAVKYKOIAKOMDIV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Z = E
EZXAXZWWCMZZW,IODZUSNOIU,BOBGXZZANIOWWIZPVW,NSBWEZS,NUOMWEZCAINCZBNWTP-AZZA,BOBUPPSBXNFOSNYNOS.
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)
- “All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=K B=Z C=F D=C E=S F=U G=M H=I I=P J=Q K=A L=E M=O N=L O=N P=X Q=D R=G S=Y T=W U=R V=T W=J X=H Y=B Z=V
- “A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, V. 6 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=G C=L D=E E=F F=H G=T H=S I=N J=B K=X L=Y M=D N=V O=A P=C Q=K R=O S=Z T=Q U=W V=R W=M X=J Y=I Z=U
- “We should try to find out what air is natural to us and never abandon it, but make it as perfect as we can.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1871, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (J. Hain Friswell translation, 1871)Cipher key: A=W B=H C=I D=K E=D F=R G=Z H=A I=P J=U K=M L=E M=B N=C O=L P=N Q=Y R=Q S=G T=F U=S V=X W=V X=O Y=J Z=T
- “Every citizen has an equal right to the honor and profit of entering the public service of his country.”— Rutherford B. Hayes, 1879, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=W B=E C=B D=S E=R F=K G=L H=A I=P J=V K=U L=N M=G N=T O=Y P=H Q=J R=O S=X T=D U=F V=Q W=I X=Z Y=M Z=C
- “Tranquility at home and peaceful relations abroad constitute the true permanent policy of our country.”— James K. Polk, 1848, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=C B=I C=Z D=T E=K F=M G=X H=P I=R J=G K=O L=A M=N N=D O=U P=S Q=H R=W S=J T=B U=E V=Y W=Q X=L Y=F Z=V
- “Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep a little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.”— Robert Herrick, 1648, Hesperides, To Mistress Susanna Southwell (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=D C=Y D=K E=H F=W G=C H=X I=L J=Q K=Z L=J M=F N=A O=I P=O Q=M R=V S=N T=B U=S V=U W=T X=R Y=G Z=E