Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Q = T
LQLNQPZPTJJLMZNNKUQPZKQPZVQPTQYTHZNPLNKSMYKNQLMQZMNZXVTQLULATQLKM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Robert Louis Stevenson Cryptograms Set 4
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: H = I
KZNKISAHRKVZQSNZBVHBBSLVKIHRDLSZVGHAAHQNXKKIERKSZVAZEHRAZSLSFVRXHVB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: E = I
MRMONHAEQTEFTJJLJOVUL,AMWCKSWJOLMULWN,QJHEQEHFMWK,VSHVNEHFIEOISXFHUQIMF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: H = A
VHBIVHUPHYHSQPODSEXBP,KZDSPVHGBXBJPSCSPJHBJRHEZPEGTHYYILEXRGJEDEZPYHLE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: W = E
FLFEEJVVTEWULSNLNRRQOTXRWUDWFENLLSWPTLLTYTKNXWRR,TBLSWKNBWOUTKNLWRWEATVW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = E
RCWGWBTSHWSX,BSXWWX,RHKDOBSMUHHOTHGWNLWGBKWSRT,HGRHRGDQWE,HGRHMDRCWGBSMZWDERC.
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)
- “It is the happiness of the other that makes his own most intense gratification.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=C B=Y C=B D=X E=D F=J G=L H=K I=V J=P K=O L=I M=N N=S O=U P=H Q=T R=Z S=W T=A U=F V=R W=Q X=G Y=M Z=E
- “Truth of intercourse is something more difficult than to refrain from open lies.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=F B=S C=X D=G E=A F=P G=D H=I I=H J=W K=T L=M M=K N=U O=Q P=V Q=C R=N S=O T=Y U=J V=E W=Z X=L Y=B Z=R
- “Everything is good or bad, helpful or deadly, not in itself, but by its circumstances.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=H B=Z C=P D=J E=I F=S G=Q H=T I=C J=O K=F L=D M=E N=Y O=R P=K Q=N R=V S=U T=G U=A V=B W=L X=M Y=W Z=X
- “Many make a large fortune, who remain underbred and pathetically stupid to the last.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=Z B=N C=B D=O E=T F=J G=I H=A I=Y J=D K=W L=S M=X N=V O=F P=E Q=G R=P S=R T=C U=K V=M W=Q X=U Y=L Z=H
- “It is supposed that all knowledge is at the bottom of a well, or the far end of a telescope.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=C B=R C=Q D=G E=S F=I G=X H=V I=Z J=U K=F L=T M=J N=A O=N P=B Q=K R=L S=H T=O U=D V=P W=E X=W Y=M Z=Y
- “There is no end, indeed, to making books or experiments, or to travel, or to gathering wealth.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=J B=I C=H D=A E=L F=U G=R H=O I=Y J=Q K=M L=P M=G N=X O=K P=Z Q=V R=T S=N T=S U=B V=C W=E X=D Y=F Z=W