Puzzle 1
Starter clue: U = A
DUFGUMLUOZPGGAUESUCCGVZ-SVULRAC,UASTAGUATEDGVJMUKKGV-JMULRAC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Samuel Butler Cryptograms Set 3
4 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: O = I
VROPPUIKLKTVUHSWKHSUHSFOPPOHN,PODXJCOPOJUHSIULAKHUVCOPPOHN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = O
CPSVPDNRFLDEUDLVUWOLUOPKBOBKUKEWDLKVCORRKVDEPOGUDNGEVD'EP'LKEWDL?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: R = E
CRWCFWGHTLURUFJLFWCHFXRUGW,JLWCRWCFWMLNELJQRJGRJERWFXRUGW;WCRJCLYEFJFJBHFJSRUFGVWLSNRFXFJLFWCCRJRQRNHFVR?
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 (4 solutions)
- “Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.”— Samuel Butler, 1664, Hudibras, Part II, Canto II. Line 79 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=Q C=G D=H E=T F=V G=E H=J I=K J=C K=P L=W M=L N=M O=Y P=B Q=Z R=I S=D T=O U=A V=R W=X X=F Y=U Z=S
- “Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.”— Samuel Butler, 1678, Hudibras, Part III, Canto I. Line 687 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=J C=H D=K E=W F=B G=C H=N I=M J=P K=O L=R M=Q N=G O=I P=L Q=Z R=T S=D T=U U=A V=S W=F X=E Y=V Z=X
- “Why should not conscience have vacation as well as other courts o' th' nation?”— Samuel Butler, 1664, Hudibras, Part II, Canto II. Line 317 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=V C=W D=O E=T F=D G=R H=G I=J J=Q K=A L=N M=B N=U O=E P=H Q=X R=L S=Y T=M U=C V=S W=I X=P Y=Z Z=F
- “He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it; Then how can any man be said to break an oath he never made?”— Samuel Butler, 1664, Hudibras, Part II, Canto II. Line 377 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=Y C=H D=J E=C F=A G=I H=M I=Q J=N K=L L=O M=F N=R O=U P=Z Q=V R=E S=B T=P U=S V=D W=T X=K Y=W Z=G