Puzzle 1
Starter clue: J = I
FSDPLVFGDYJWUYDJRKJBWFJLRLNOCUYJBOCGOLVDJRFSJVBLCRFGZJVKDGJEDKFSGLCMSLCGOLOCYWGDYDBFJLRV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 22
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: F = A
MLMBQJFVRFZHXKMFBVHRMYXDVHZXIAXJYFZZFWFDVFZXIHMVFZRMFUFNMZ,URMHRMBIBXJZKMMYXBFVQFEZHBFAHDXV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: R = O
R,FROEWXAQJ,FROEWXAQJ,TOELRZVFROEWXAQJFROEWXAQJ!TOEUWVTBTCOFROEWXAQJ,TOETAVWXVYTVRQVRATJJYRRSCOB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: P = E
SDJKOGPEDJKRTKIZOBYPGZDJPKUPZHPRGOPJTIPRITXGPEPRKZXPPOKUPXMPBORWDPRKTXORPIIOGOPRKBATXHZROCPM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = E
KZPSOJXTIKLMQEEDZPGBPVXPMXQPOJXMZKXZTOZD;QPXEZTTMOJXDXXZDTSZPCZPQOJXDTZOX,NIOBOKZGXMPQCBEEXDXPVX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = E
CBXGUBHXYLTFXBAGYTAGPXYJZYARXVBQFPOBYUIVLTVUGYYAGPQLXFPQCBFYPILUQARZYARXVBCBUUAPUXVBJLPTGCTFXB.
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)
- “The most reliable indication of public purpose in this country is derived through our popular elections.”— Abraham Lincoln, 1864, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=J B=C C=U D=E E=V F=T G=R H=Z I=W J=I K=D L=O M=G N=F O=P P=M Q=K R=N S=H T=X U=B V=S W=A X=Q Y=L Z=Y
- “Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=C B=R C=X D=I E=B F=A G=J H=T I=F J=M K=L L=V M=E N=K O=D P=Q Q=Y R=H S=Z T=U U=W V=N W=G X=O Y=P Z=S
- “O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.”— William Shakespeare, 1600, As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=G C=I D=Q E=D F=W G=V H=X I=K J=L K=B L=M M=Z N=C O=N P=J Q=U R=O S=P T=A U=Y V=T W=E X=R Y=H Z=S
- “Justice must not fail because the agencies of enforcement are either delinquent or inefficiently organized.”— Herbert Hoover, 1929, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Y B=L C=Z D=U E=M F=V G=C H=G I=F J=S K=T L=K M=D N=P O=I P=E Q=X R=N S=J T=O U=H V=W W=Q X=R Y=B Z=A
- “Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, IV. 15 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=I C=D D=R E=F F=V G=K H=J I=U J=H K=M L=P M=S N=B O=T P=N Q=O R=W S=Y T=L U=X V=C W=Z X=E Y=Q Z=A
- “Let us extricate our country from the dangers which surround it and learn wisdom from the lessons they inculcate.”— Andrew Jackson, 1833, Second Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=O B=E C=L D=J E=B F=A G=U H=X I=W J=Y K=Z L=I M=K N=Q O=G P=N Q=D R=M S=V T=C U=S V=H W=P X=T Y=R Z=F