Puzzle 1
Starter clue: C = A
AUICYXBGCPCOVUARLDXAHMMVRGCQ,AUOKVYVBMOPXKRMVRKGCOMCYYCQ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Sir Walter Scott 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.
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The puzzles
Puzzle 2
Starter clue: D = N
EDNEYGFDEDBRXXKYPFYFFRFKGXYGHDK,GPFBOHJKEHDDHEHKXZGPFYGJHDK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = N
GFVVJKNVGFVVJKNTKODREGDRKHSVTOZDW,PRSDRLKRZFDRSDZWNKRLETOZDW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: T = E
ENDWGT,UDUWPIHSUFESNFBHZTMNF,HMLTVYGUWTSGNVRTNVTOFNSTLPGTDEFCXDUPGTVWUAPGTGTVL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: G = A
TCGEFXBEFYNHVGQHVBYNXBFNYTGTQGBEGTCXHGTMPHTBEYNHQGXHRDCGBE,YNGYSGIIXHGTYNHKDGSH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: K = E
EPZWDZOWPKNQKKUOWPKXIOYKQWBUOYXNXUOKUOKRJIMK,QZCKWPZWUWJROQSZDBWIZQRDDKQQVRXQIXLUKJ?
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)
- “No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay.”— Sir Walter Scott, 1813, Rokeby, Canto VI. Stanza 21 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=N B=G C=A D=U E=F F=V G=R H=C I=P J=B K=W L=Q M=H N=Z O=T P=D Q=Y R=S S=K T=J U=O V=I W=X X=E Y=L Z=M
- “In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.”— Sir Walter Scott, 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Canto I. Stanza 17 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=C B=G C=X D=N E=I F=E G=T H=A I=J J=R K=D L=V M=P N=L O=U P=H Q=B R=M S=K T=W U=Z V=Y W=Q X=O Y=S Z=F
- “Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil nor night of waking.”— Sir Walter Scott, 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Canto I. Stanza 31 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=J C=U D=N E=W F=L G=S H=B I=Y J=P K=T L=F M=Q N=H O=K P=M Q=D R=O S=R T=A U=C V=E W=G X=V Y=X Z=I
- “I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”— Sir Walter Scott, 1825, The Betrothed, Chap. XXVIII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=F B=J C=K D=M E=I F=L G=H H=U I=B J=X K=Q L=D M=N N=A O=P P=T Q=Z R=G S=C T=E U=O V=R W=S X=Y Y=W Z=V
- “Spangling the wave with lights as vain as pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.”— Sir Walter Scott, 1815, The Lord of the Isles, Canto I. Stanza 23 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=I C=P D=F E=N F=G G=A H=E I=Z J=K K=Y L=C M=U N=H O=X P=R Q=V R=O S=D T=S U=B V=W W=M X=L Y=T Z=J
- “What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?”— Sir Walter Scott, 1826, Woodstock, Chap. XXXVII (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=K C=V D=C E=W F=J G=Z H=M I=O J=R K=E L=D M=P N=Y O=N P=H Q=S R=U S=B T=Q U=I V=F W=T X=L Y=G Z=A