Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Y = E
VMYUTBIAUIVPJBEVWKPUIKVMYJSYUJMUZYTCYWWYAKBJDKBIVJSQEVMNCYIVSUIAQEVMVMYGYUIWKPUPCKBJEWMEIHDKGGYJDY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 24
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: S = A
CNXLSBDWLIKX,SKLCNXLSPGKXWWOSQQWOPIVCNXMDKYWIOKDYNC,SWSOXSCNXPDWMSOCXLLIMKMSPLOPIVSKXSYQXDKNDWOQDYNC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: U = T
UKAHAQWUKQLPFUDALIUKJCQVJZLUDTQDABUFRJRZWQUBJL,QLPUKAGAFURQDUJCUKQURJRZWQUBJLQDAVZWUBEQUJDFJCUKAFJBW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: P = E
OAPPDAZWP,LQPLODKPRAPZDPEDUIPEEFQREHKFYKZRLJPAQTPQDYZQYLQOPALQZXPLXIP,FEFQZITLEDPJPAVYLBQDAVBQXLXBIZA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
VZBCPOURTZKEMBOSOLAOSOBJGLUGUMMOYLULJOSZPNOURGJLZUYZBGEEGSSLMOUJRLULUMKRJBQLBBORNOSJLAOZYUOXELXOUSO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: L = O
LCELZUALCUOEVALCSFGSLUMJGDMMKJRWROMFYLTEGUFGUFYOERBRUTGYQMAOGASMLHOJMAGQGAROVLHXGUHLEYMSH-TLDMEUXMUO.
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 abundant fruits of another year have blessed our country with plenty and with the means of a flourishing commerce.”— George Washington, 1790, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=D B=U C=L D=C E=I F=K G=M H=G I=N J=R K=O L=Q M=H N=P O=Z P=F Q=W R=X S=Y T=B U=A V=T W=S X=J Y=E Z=V
- “The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in his flight.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1850, The Seaside and the Fireside, The Day is done (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=Y C=T D=I E=P F=B G=K H=Q I=O J=C K=N L=D M=W N=H O=F P=R Q=L R=X S=A T=Z U=J V=M W=S X=E Y=G Z=U
- “The wealth and strength of a country are its population, and the best part of that population are cultivators of the soil.”— Andrew Jackson, 1832, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=E B=I C=F D=R E=V F=S G=B H=W I=G J=O K=H L=N M=X N=Z O=Q P=D Q=A R=P S=K T=Y U=T V=C W=L X=M Y=J Z=U
- “Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1824, On Mitford's History of Greece. 1824 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=U C=Z D=T E=S F=I G=X H=W I=L J=V K=H L=O M=Q N=J O=F P=E Q=N R=G S=K T=M U=B V=Y W=D X=P Y=C Z=A
- “Workmen should receive certain and definite compensation for all accidents in industry irrespective of negligence.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907, Seventh Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=V B=R C=K D=X E=L F=Q G=A H=B I=J J=T K=U L=I M=D N=P O=E P=M Q=Y R=S S=C T=H U=N V=W W=Z X=G Y=F Z=O
- “Our own country could alone have exhibited so grand and striking a spectacle of the capacity of man for self-government.”— James Buchanan, 1857, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=C B=K C=U D=V E=R F=D G=A H=F I=J J=H K=X L=O M=E N=Q O=T P=Z Q=P R=I S=L T=G U=N V=Y W=B X=M Y=S Z=W