Puzzle 1
Starter clue: K = A
DBVMOUGWMOTYKBYKZBTKGQXKFUBUKAIUMOWVBQTGTNOKBKMUVGEVXMOTQKIG.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cryptograms Set 2
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: F = E
JFJEPCLJDQYDBJJDLAPDBBFWDMAFGF,NMCPDLBFMLPDRFNBJWFFGFNWL'HJDPC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = E
QTJGEUCAMGEEAVJAQYXQTJPIO,SAZAEVTJKJZCZSNCZJ;PEWQHOPTJVSPMECAMYX,SAZSPQSKEKQVENJPCZJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = E
ESXATGEXBAMDLJLXMESPJAYXAIATXMMXJLGAETZASEJAXBAAIATXM,YTGLTXE-GYUYVJAYGUOYVCMXE-QEJJEO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = E
BTYUIBRRMHKRRW,BTYIDHZIZYEHOLOLF,-KOAYDKOWWIQTODTTHMNYYLZYLBHIVLMYZ:HMZYHZUIYHLRQWKRQINYBQYYL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = E
LHLTJIEMXZBOBMUIEQACIBFTHIEZYMBVBVKBMVUJIVBZUYBNLQLFLIQTINCMITBRQYCIBFMU;FJRFLT,CMITB,-HIMYTLQFJBLMKBTFIMYBM;CIBFMU,-FJBKBTFHIMYTLQFJBLMKBTFIMYBM.
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)
- “Clothing the palpable and familiar with golden exhalations of the dawn.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800, The Death of Wallenstein (translation), Act I. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=L C=U D=C E=S F=M G=N H=V I=W J=K K=A L=Z M=T N=X O=H P=Y Q=D R=J S=Q T=E U=I V=O W=G X=F Y=P Z=B
- “He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=T C=D D=I E=O F=E G=Y H=C I=X J=H K=Z L=S M=N N=A O=Q P=L Q=M R=K S=F T=B U=J V=U W=R X=P Y=W Z=V
- “The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part IV (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=C C=I D=X E=O F=Q G=M H=L I=K J=E K=R L=J M=G N=B O=Y P=S Q=T R=Z S=A T=H U=V V=W W=F X=P Y=U Z=D
- “Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800, The Death of Wallenstein (translation), Act V. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=H C=K D=P E=O F=X G=D H=U I=V J=R K=C L=I M=S N=J O=W P=G Q=M R=Q S=F T=N U=Y V=L W=Z X=T Y=A Z=B
- “They stood aloof, the scars remaining, - Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: A dreary sea now flows between.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816, Christabel; Kubla Khan, Part II (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=T C=P D=C E=M F=G G=J H=A I=S J=Q K=L L=N M=D N=B O=I P=V Q=W R=O S=X T=H U=Y V=U W=F X=Z Y=E Z=R
- “I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose, - words in their best order; poetry, - the best words in their best order.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1835, Table Talk (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=E C=P D=X E=U F=T G=Z H=W I=O J=H K=B L=I M=R N=F O=V P=Q Q=N R=A S=J T=S U=Y V=M W=K X=C Y=D Z=L