Puzzle 1
Starter clue: V = O
ZNWDVRFDWJAGXGMVVY-FGWDLAPXF;GXIPIPIYPQLWDLTVRXWANZGXMDVYVVQLIHVADPJGJJMDPYLDLMGJZVRXWLIVXDPJOGTQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 23
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: H = T
FEQCHOXRHFSHCOXRPSTHEBKOXRCSJOXEHOFEOXKVVAFHTMEUUCOGKHCKJAFOUTSNNAFHAVHCETBASXHFIOUUAGKFHCKMAFUR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: O = N
YRZOCOAM,EQMEGQOURICIAQOUZEAQMZYRZOJOP;ZOULRKLACRBQCMJZO'CCACQEGJYRGVEZU,JMJCOAMDARMIV,EQMDIACRIQOYZU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: R = O
YWXAWAWVLREVTQBWCRROAGROECAZXEHCRCPWIBRATROVGXOVWRDVWBD-IRUWAEKWECDRACPWLAWVWAUXCTRERDVRIAWXCXIRRH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = T
MCRHNOTCQRXOFWSXZXNXWFWBPIGNNCNXFODXNPWHFOQA,MXODWFCWPPHTGOXWFNOQXZXFJOWNCPHQCGSZGFOGJCWZCQGFWODCQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: S = I
UZWINTWCSACBLH,SHUZWQACFY,YAWIHAUIWUZSIBSHYWSUZWCJACLHVUZSHE,ACLELSHIULHVUZSHE;QZLUSICSEZUZWQSFFJAFFAQ.
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)
- “My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.”— Miguel de Cervantes, 1615, Don Quixote, Part II, Chap. LVII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=V C=J D=H E=Q F=G G=A H=F I=D J=S K=Z L=E M=W N=Y O=B P=I Q=K R=U S=P T=C U=X V=O W=T X=N Y=L Z=M
- “Right and truth and justice and humanitarian efforts will have the moral support of this country all over the world.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1924, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=O B=C C=H D=Z E=I F=R G=V H=T I=Y J=M K=E L=X M=W N=P O=A P=J Q=G R=D S=U T=S U=L V=F W=K X=N Y=Q Z=B
- “Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.”— Alexander Pope, 1735, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires. Line 186 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=F C=S D=P E=B F=J G=L H=Z I=R J=I K=W L=H M=T N=X O=N P=G Q=U R=E S=K T=Q U=D V=Y W=C X=V Y=M Z=A
- “We are responsible to our country and to the glorious cause of self-government for the preservation of so great a good.”— Andrew Jackson, 1829, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=R B=L C=T D=F E=N F=X G=C H=D I=G J=Z K=M L=P M=Q N=J O=U P=H Q=B R=O S=K T=I U=V V=S W=E X=A Y=W Z=Y
- “We must permit no division of classes in this country, with one occupation striving to secure advantage over another.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1924, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=Y B=F C=E D=H E=B F=N G=A H=U I=L J=G K=J L=K M=W N=S O=T P=C Q=R R=M S=D T=P U=Z V=X W=O X=I Y=Q Z=V
- “The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.”— Confucius, 1861, The Analects (James Legge translation, 1861)Cipher key: A=O B=M C=R D=X E=G F=L G=C H=N I=S J=F K=V L=A M=B N=U O=J P=Q Q=W R=K S=I T=P U=T V=Y W=E X=Z Y=D Z=H