Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = L
XFKHO,XFKHO,-XFF,XFFXFKHO;XFKHOKHXTBIO,TBIOQOX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cryptograms Set 1
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: G = E
UTUOJDEFPTJFTUOUKKPG,AGURQEYRTGWFGGOELMTJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: R = E
MPGCRRI!NENGUJRYECREPNYJ,SRCMLRTQOMAIMCREMIMCR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = T
XPXPTPAEPQCTNAAEHAPZPTWJTNACRAVAEHANCYPRANPH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: B = E
ABNFBQROBOCGLVICIVABHQINBVV,EQIOETIJMQCQABNOJDBOCQBVV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: C = E
YABXEIBOTJCCMC,YABXEIBOBAKC,HXCHBCOKACHYABXIZJAPXBVCCR.
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)
- “Alone, alone, - all, all alone; Alone on a wide, wide sea.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=I C=F D=P E=Q F=L G=V H=N I=D J=B K=O L=Z M=R N=K O=E P=H Q=S R=M S=X T=W U=G V=U W=T X=A Y=C Z=J
- “A lady richly clad as she, Beautiful exceedingly.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816, Christabel; Kubla Khan, Part I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=W C=K D=R E=I F=C G=E H=J I=P J=Y K=S L=N M=G N=M O=D P=H Q=T R=U S=Q T=L U=A V=Z W=X X=O Y=F Z=V
- “Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part V (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=U C=L D=C E=T F=K G=S H=J I=P J=G K=Q L=V M=O N=I O=R P=H Q=F R=E S=B T=D U=A V=Z W=X X=Y Y=N Z=W
- “We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part II (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=Z C=I D=K E=H F=C G=X H=A I=M J=U K=Q L=Y M=G N=S O=D P=E Q=F R=N S=J T=R U=P V=O W=B X=W Y=L Z=V
- “Her gentle limbs did she undress, And lay down in her loveliness.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816, Christabel; Kubla Khan, Part I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=E C=I D=V E=A F=G G=M H=U I=D J=O K=X L=B M=W N=R O=L P=F Q=N R=T S=Z T=Y U=P V=S W=Q X=C Y=K Z=J
- “Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part III (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=T C=E D=Y E=O F=V G=N H=S I=U J=R K=D L=F M=Z N=C O=A P=G Q=X R=L S=M T=B U=Q V=K W=J X=H Y=W Z=P