Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = E
SAVCXSJFXSAFAPLWUGCAFFJWBXSVXDAOLEXVCFVEAPVKVGCALZ,-VGCAFFJWBXSVXOLWANPVWWLXGMN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Simplicity Cryptograms Set 25
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: V = E
UVOAGLUHOOUVEVCJHOBLOACVOXOLQVIVCXYBYLZ;GIVSVOOVCABKVCGOLBKGIVCXYBLNNLHCGOILBYV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: R = E
QARCARMFSRFW,ARMFIDMWWDRQLGFRWAICIEIC;ICJQARCARMFQLGFW,ARMFDMWWDRSRWWRGWAICISRIFW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = A
UDSZGTEVWEC,LXEDXOWYCGDUNXWIK,JWEGDOWYCGDUKGVZ;GLKUKGVZGIUEEIZECZOXVZGDURVXNXIKZV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Y = S
JWIOOYKOOTKOYYRACWJYATUYYOQARYPERQARCPR,JWIPECWVPIQYURQJWARCY,UQAXURQTOIAKPEYVUF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: T = E
PITATWHMAWVIPYMX;NLPYTMATBTAXGWMNGTQARCITTUGTHHOTHHMOUHPLZWUWPXPRPMJTPITYAROVROT.
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)
- “Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, - a blessing that money cannot buy.”— Izaak Walton, 1653, The Complete Angler, Part I. Chap. 21 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=G C=L D=W E=R F=S G=B H=X I=Z J=I K=P L=O M=U N=Y O=M P=C Q=J R=K S=H T=V U=D V=A W=N X=T Y=Q Z=F
- “Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1588, Essays, Book III, Chap. XIII. Of Experience (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=N C=R D=G E=P F=C G=S H=I I=H J=M K=D L=A M=X N=F O=T P=Q Q=K R=V S=B T=Z U=L V=E W=J X=O Y=W Z=Y
- “When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=H B=U C=N D=L E=M F=S G=R H=Z I=A J=D K=J L=O M=I N=P O=X P=V Q=W R=E S=B T=G U=Y V=F W=T X=K Y=C Z=Q
- “I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.”— Michel de Montaigne, 1588, Essays, Book III, Chap II. Of Repentance (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=F C=H D=S E=T F=X G=A H=V I=L J=B K=D L=N M=Y N=W O=M P=Q Q=Z R=G S=P T=K U=I V=R W=U X=O Y=C Z=E
- “Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.”— William Wordsworth, 1842, The Borderers, Act IV. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=I B=F C=G D=Z E=U F=Y G=C H=J I=R J=T K=L L=Q M=X N=K O=E P=O Q=D R=N S=B T=P U=A V=W W=H X=M Y=S Z=V
- “There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=R B=V C=M D=Q E=Z F=C G=L H=S I=H J=K K=X L=U M=A N=B O=N P=T Q=F R=O S=J T=E U=D V=G W=I X=Y Y=W Z=P