Puzzle 1
Starter clue: U = E
PMDUSWDUPTUZVWBSMKUVEMEKUUQSKUPURMWOUPMZZEUUQMDYUOVGPUSMGPSKULEWRWBUCUMZMGEZEUUQMDWPPGOKVHMBQ,MBQPSMEX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 25
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: N = A
ULRQILRROMXTCONJLKTLZILRROMNGYVMNZRTANGLZVMNZRTANG;NGYILLMANGQNTNWMKYWONWNXGTRILLMANG,NGYILORNWNXGTRILOR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Q = E
XUQPAJFIQPEDIARPQ,ZUQYDDFISCZJCCDERJZQ;QOCQZUQKXROOTJOODPQAKDPQ,JPSPVRZRQFCJEGRTREQRPJEDPZQIVZRAOQCZGSYYOQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: P = T
XKVYRKPWKFINGNLPNITUDUYLJPZWYSWPWKZUQKJSNLPYLCUVVTXIKUR,XCPYPJPULOJBYIGULOPUGKJPWKBCITNBPWKZUPKIUINCLOYP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: P = E
ZQPVNJKHWVNJP,UNVFFPTDNXVPAWJBDP,UFPTPNRRNJPLBDBRJPVTHVFUNVFCQDAWFPUPNCFW,BRAWQDNAZHAANRCBCBNRWVPSZVOZTBNWP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: M = T
CBDNEOAZMUAFKNEZMOHAFAZJYXYZJYZMBZJXONEJ.AMUBFZNMMNBFVMUYXBMONZBRYNLKBXAMBC,DEMKBXAMBCFNCAKAMFMUYBAJNLCBDNO.
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)
- “Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941, Third Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=J B=L C=G D=M E=R F=Z G=U H=N I=Q J=X K=H L=P M=O N=K O=C P=S Q=D R=V S=T T=W U=E V=A W=I X=Y Y=B Z=F
- “Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.”— Hesiod, 700 BC, Works and Days, Line 25 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=X C=J D=W E=Q F=Z G=N H=Y I=P J=L K=U L=O M=R N=A O=E P=K Q=H R=T S=V T=S U=B V=C W=G X=I Y=D Z=F
- “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”— Edmund Burke, 1770, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, Vol. I. p. 526 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=K C=S D=O E=C F=D G=R H=Q I=M J=A K=Y L=J M=Z N=X O=L P=N Q=E R=I S=U T=F U=H V=P W=V X=W Y=G Z=T
- “Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=Q B=F C=U D=G E=J F=P G=M H=X I=R J=S K=E L=N M=Z N=O O=D P=T Q=V R=K S=C T=Y U=A V=L W=H X=B Y=I Z=W
- “Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where in nice balance truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.”— Alexander Pope, 1728, The Dunciad, Book I. Line 52 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=A C=G D=L E=Z F=H G=V H=U I=X J=C K=J L=B M=Q N=I O=Y P=E Q=O R=N S=M T=R U=W V=T W=S X=F Y=K Z=P
- “Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.”— Daniel Webster, 1824, Speech, April, 1824. Vol. III. p. 141 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=A C=L D=B E=U F=S G=W H=Y I=M J=D K=C L=F M=T N=O O=R P=Z Q=J R=G S=V T=Q U=H V=K W=X X=P Y=E Z=N