Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = E
PSWHHWKBHUVWVWFSUVZJFUXYW;BUBHUVWNRVWYWJU,HAWWUSZNR-RCWYFUBOW,JRUBJNRVWYWJU,HWSI-KBHUYFNUBJT,HWSI-KWHUYXNUBOWRJW!
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Simplicity Cryptograms Set 32
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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: O = E
NZWVNMOY,EDAOUNTOWDQBHIEPNQY,IDGIUNLSOPUYDQIQIDWJVODBVU;UVOEDUUEOMEOIYZWONHUVOBIGODYHWNGIHIWUNRDOTUVOHEDBVU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = E
MOCDQUIQFNZMSQUQIOSJNSUWGZJJXDOMOZMGOZMCYCFGZJHSMMHCJCCNCWMQOSNAFCZM,ZUWGOZMCYCFGZJAFCZMJCCNCWMQOSNHSMMHC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: D = E
JNWCDXJGKPNGXM!HGXLUNF,XMDYNFDWIHNBDFZXMDIODRIUOIBDDIRMNHQDRXNJMZOKNBD;FZEDIOMZOFZKKDTXDUEOMZOHNGUEKDOOCWIRD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: J = T
UJUHJTPHPYAPJEWJTPFEAZCJTGJGZZJTUDRHHIMHUHJGDCCEDEJCUPMIJEDZSAPJUAPGZUJJZPWAEQHURTJGDCGWJPAFGACHAPJIADGRGUD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = E
JCBOUREMQPSJRBIICRXBMQADJ,QRTBIJMUI;JCBZCMURJRBIJCMJIAAJCBMXPCBMQMXPYQBIIMUBIZMJJBUBPMJJCBDBBJADEMXQRTBDQANBUI.
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)
- “Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!”— Thomas Carlyle, 1838, Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=W B=I C=P D=K E=X F=A G=Q H=S I=F J=N K=D L=M M=Z N=C O=V P=B Q=J R=O S=L T=G U=T V=H W=E X=U Y=R Z=Y
- “Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim at objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game is from afar to view the flight.”— Matthew Prior, 1692, To the Hon. Charles Montague (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=G C=D D=I E=L F=X G=M H=F I=A J=Y K=Z L=B M=P N=O O=E P=C Q=N R=V S=J T=W U=T V=H W=R X=Q Y=S Z=U
- “The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1833, On Horace Walpole. 1833 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=Z C=E D=C E=X F=R G=W H=L I=F J=S K=B L=J M=T N=M O=H P=Q Q=O R=Y S=I T=P U=N V=K W=D X=U Y=V Z=A
- “Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above with ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.”— Alexander Pope, 1726, The Odyssey of Homer (Pope's translation), Book III. Line 285 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=V C=G D=E E=D F=W G=U H=B I=A J=F K=L L=K M=H N=O O=S P=Y Q=J R=C S=M T=X U=N V=Z W=R X=T Y=P Z=I
- “It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=R B=V C=D D=N E=O F=W G=A H=S I=U J=T K=J L=K M=B N=Z O=X P=E Q=M R=G S=Y T=H U=I V=Q W=F X=P Y=C Z=L
- “The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe and heal and bless are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.”— William Wordsworth, 1814, The Excursion, Book IX (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=O B=E C=H D=F E=M F=Y G=X H=G I=S J=T K=Q L=J M=A N=W O=P P=D Q=L R=I S=U T=K U=R V=Z W=V X=N Y=B Z=C