Puzzle 1
Starter clue: J = I
CMPDJIHAJGJCFEXUZCLBPJDUECCMZCKMJGMIZFPZDJAFWPBPZR,WLCJDJUPOMZLDCJWAP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Simplicity Cryptograms Set 22
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: J = I
NJLVJEAYXJEWLIUUIE-ACEAC,YEO,YABVCWNCYBCABIEKFYNC,JEVJAAJUGKJLJBFARZKJUC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: M = E
VTMOFFSMJVMZOMSDMXHMDJSDHTMXFYCTNFSLEEVTMOYSOFJMJFNMZOSMJJDXCVTFYCTV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: A = E
AZAKPQJKJPKJOPCCPSDAAKPVYWRPTLIAJROAFCRPUAAOQPVOAMLRRWAANQAKOAPCFJCA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: J = E
HJFCUGJFQJESIWGGIJMSWJTEFRJZXWGVIJZZRCNSEMJGVEFGVJLOCIESMJHWZUCSGNFJZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: J = E
LFMUFPAJLFNRIMFYFZJDIHKXHLPPJYJLMOAGHMI;IHKHLMJOOJYMHKHXCDFCJDOAJVCFKJP.
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)
- “The simplicity of nature is not that which may easily be read, but is inexhaustible.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=L B=R C=T D=S E=O F=Y G=C H=P I=M J=I K=W L=U M=H N=G O=X P=E Q=V R=D S=Q T=K U=N V=J W=B X=F Y=Z Z=A
- “Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1852, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=S B=T C=E D=Z E=N F=Y G=P H=K I=O J=I K=L L=C M=X N=R O=D P=W Q=J R=U S=Q T=F U=M V=H W=G X=V Y=A Z=B
- “The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=Z B=Y C=G D=I E=L F=O G=J H=C I=K J=S K=Q L=A M=E N=F O=P P=M Q=V R=W S=R T=H U=B V=T W=D X=N Y=U Z=X
- “Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1580, Essays, Book I, Chap. XL. Of Good and Evil (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=W C=F D=C E=Z F=L G=Y H=J I=K J=I K=N L=A M=D N=X O=S P=O Q=P R=T S=R T=M U=B V=U W=H X=Q Y=G Z=V
- “Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.”— Aesop, 1867, Aesop's Fables (George Fyler Townsend translation, 1867)Cipher key: A=Z B=X C=O D=P E=A F=N G=T H=M I=L J=E K=Q L=Y M=G N=U O=D P=J Q=B R=C S=R T=V U=F V=H W=I X=W Y=K Z=S
- “Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.”— Sydney Smith, 1855, Lady Holland's Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, Vol. I. p. 258 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=F C=P D=R E=J F=O G=W H=I I=H J=E K=S L=N M=T N=U O=L P=D Q=K R=G S=Z T=A U=B V=X W=Q X=M Y=C Z=V