Puzzle 1
Starter clue: X = E
AIAQIWXVKEDRMXEMYXDWEZUGXIWXRPKQXKHQIEKAXQ;UYYIWXJWAYNKXRNE,AQBXUYEPQYHIEMKXQXKTXIWXIXCI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Robert Louis Stevenson Cryptograms Set 7
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: L = E
YHPLYZEYMBWPYNLYSZDRMFEKFZWLLAILSZLCZRWLILPQRPELCTDZGRKZTDZMLFF,QRPRMLZGYZSRELFZRFRELMRZDSL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: F = E
SFAUOFUWYPMAUAUEKLXYAYKLYLRYJF,ULXWUHSFMUQFWAVXYFXYA;KVZCKWAFRUTKZUAFQYFSYWLKCKZFAMULULYCIZFWWYKL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: B = S
PCUOSFHMBXCSDBUSGQXZHVMZFSVB:PCUAUVUXYYBMP,BCSVMZISDABUYNUBXZFWAHMZISZPCUTXBBUAB-OHPSWSQUXZFYSNUDB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: T = O
WDHYHIYHWTTCIKATRWDHJHLIWLDZTYOJUKWDHZTYVORTYEHTEVHWTYIETGWGETKATGVUXHIKTIWDIKONAZIATRIKIYQGCHKW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: N = O
WGGBQNGANKXIXNILZOJONIGQLEWUOLNIEROZWQENERONIOXINZRNGA,WLXELOGVXLNIGQWLEWUONIEROZWQENLNBOERXIUOGLO.
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 grown people who make the nursery stories; all the children do, is jealously to preserve the text.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=I B=J C=X D=W E=O F=Q G=K H=Y I=T J=C K=R L=Z M=P N=D O=F P=U Q=S R=N S=B T=V U=A V=G W=H X=E Y=L Z=M
- “A great many brave actions must be expected to be performed without witness, for one that comes to some notice.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=X B=Y C=D D=I E=M F=S G=H H=G I=P J=Q K=U L=E M=N N=V O=L P=R Q=F R=O S=C T=W U=K V=Z W=B X=J Y=A Z=T
- “We take a sight at a condition in life, and say we have studied it; our most elaborate view is no more than an impression.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=T B=Q C=M D=Z E=C F=E G=J H=Y I=P J=F K=O L=N M=H N=X O=K P=G Q=V R=L S=W T=B U=A V=U W=S X=D Y=I Z=R
- “The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=R B=S C=H D=U E=K F=D G=F H=Y I=G J=Q K=X L=J M=I N=V O=B P=T Q=M R=Z S=O T=P U=E V=W W=C X=A Y=L Z=N
- “There are too many of these catchwords in the world for people to rap out upon you like an oath and by way of an argument.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=Y B=J C=M D=H E=P F=X G=U H=E I=A J=S K=N L=C M=Q N=B O=D P=Z Q=G R=F S=V T=O U=I V=L W=T X=K Y=R Z=W
- “All my old opinions were only stages on the way to the one I now hold, as itself is only a stage on the way to something else.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881, Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersCipher key: A=D B=M C=V D=J E=T F=C G=L H=K I=N J=R K=P L=S M=Q N=O O=E P=Z Q=Y R=H S=X T=B U=G V=F W=A X=I Y=U Z=W