Puzzle 1
Starter clue: I = T
YJPJPUJYIVHIIKQVHAMJIVRKTDADKAHAZIKWKBBKSVDPSVKQKYYJQIGIVRJYYKYDGHGQKAGDGIJAISDIVWYJJZKPHGDIDGIKTJYGDGIDAIVRJYYKY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Perseverance Cryptograms Set 27
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 = O
NPLJGVPLDSPHFXPSZPHZIP'VJZZSHUJI,KWNPTHSKQXFJGTFSOXJST;ADFHDSHNGKVNHSFXJXDGTSPTHWKF,JGTGHNJOXJVAPPGWHDGTHDFHWVPLDSKGQFXJF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = E
POPGRFKAFSOCBXYIGOKYWGONFDTBRFYRCFEYTMYWO,IYDTUTBG,GTBPIEONPIEGTETPIGOYIFMFNPIUYIF'GMTSZONTOTKFTMGYCWOFCBTIUFIOPKFCBOKWF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = E
ICLJNATGNLFDQTTUDGOCGANLOGKIQOGOIDTGCPDQTDNZTJNLXQNIQXTMNHT,CVGODDTLDNCLJQCVMAVLGTZNDDNLFMKSTPNUTACLDQTJOPTDKCPCVGICVLDGK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: H = A
MCKMCQTOMWKHTMCODHSORGMCKTHQF,HFYYTQFSO,HFYLHGKOIDTYTQFSHLHQF;MCKGVHFMOORBSQFMCKKHTMC,HFYHTKXQMCBDFOMHFMYTQFSQFLITKOCHFYIHQT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: Z = T
GZGXATZZTDZSXSVMUFYTDXSM,PGZKPKSCSMTUTFRXFNFDSNN,ZKFMZSNFRRVYSMZKTYSGMZFZNGDXZ;TOITYZLSVCTFMZSXVDYDGXTKGCALXSCTXKSDZEVTXZGSM.
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)
- “Remember that to change thy opinion and to follow him who corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=N B=L C=Q D=I E=U F=X G=S H=A I=T J=E K=O L=K M=G N=Z O=J P=M Q=C R=Y S=W T=P U=B V=H W=F X=V Y=R Z=D
- “We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=B B=J C=M D=U E=Z F=T G=N H=O I=L J=A K=I L=C M=K N=W O=Y P=E Q=G R=X S=R T=D U=V V=S W=F X=H Y=Q Z=P
- “It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”— Oscar Wilde, 1893, A Woman of No ImportanceCipher key: A=F B=Y C=L D=W E=G F=E G=S H=X I=N J=V K=R L=Q M=B N=H O=T P=I Q=Z R=P S=C T=A U=D V=J W=U X=M Y=O Z=K
- “Considering the extraordinary character of the times in which we live, our attention should unremittingly be fixed on the safety of our country.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1808, Eighth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=D B=K C=O D=T E=P F=G G=R H=V I=C J=S K=Y L=N M=L N=I O=A P=F Q=H R=Q S=B T=E U=X V=U W=Z X=W Y=J Z=M
- “The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are with constant drinking fresh and fair.”— Abraham Cowley, 1656, Poems, From Anacreon, II. Drinking (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=C C=H D=O E=Z F=N G=P H=A I=F J=V K=E L=G M=T N=B O=S P=J Q=I R=U S=K T=R U=M V=L W=Y X=W Y=D Z=Q
- “It is better to sound a person, with whom one deals afar off, than to fall upon the point at first; except you mean to surprise him by some short question.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=B B=G C=M D=R E=Q F=A G=I H=V I=C J=Z K=H L=Y M=N N=F O=X P=W Q=J R=L S=O T=E U=D V=U W=K X=S Y=P Z=T