Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Y = A
OYPRYNEOIYOYPGYPPQNJIMHGSYMSIKQHWAJI,ETGEUGHOMNYPGIMAQPQNYAOENQTEN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Terence Cryptograms Set 4
5 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: N = T
NPAGADBHFNPDHUBFAZBWRJNNPZNDNRAEFVABODSSDEJINYPAHWFJOFDNYDNPGAIJENZHEA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = N
ZCPRSSRSEVYCZBQ,VSYCPRSBNYCZBQ;PBJPKYCNXQCZINFFSFFBNYCZBQ,FYZKKNDBNYCZBQPLZZBMPBY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = O
HRHVGHIEFFCHZOFOGJEHYJQFUIJZXQOGFTLGHZOFXIHPPFP,XZVUPFIFOGJPQOFOXCJXZJDXIWEJUFPGHIQJEU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = E
BYBDYSCKEYGTWRHHOCQDTJD,NSCJRWWRBQDRQCYSCLTDYOQTDOCQTED,YSCJBJCDOCUBRHYTQCWHCUYNBYSBJYSCLDCHICDBJNSRYNRGYSCGRQCYTCJKEQCRKICQDBYG.
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 (5 solutions)
- “Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.”— Terence, 163 BC, Heautontimoroumenos (Heauton Timorumenos), Act IV. Sc. 1, 53. (666) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=D B=Q C=P D=K E=I F=G G=C H=U I=E J=B K=W L=V M=S N=T O=M P=N Q=O R=Y S=H T=F U=R V=X W=L X=Z Y=A Z=J
- “There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.”— Terence, 163 BC, Heautontimoroumenos (Heauton Timorumenos), Act IV. Sc. 6, 1. (805) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=S C=K D=I E=C F=O G=R H=N I=L J=U K=P L=X M=Q N=T O=D P=H Q=V R=B S=F T=Z U=G V=M W=Y X=J Y=W Z=A
- “I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.”— Terence, 161 BC, Eunuchus, Act II. Sc. 2, 12. (243) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Z B=N C=H D=F E=R F=S G=K H=J I=P J=D K=L L=M M=W N=O O=B P=A Q=G R=V S=E T=X U=Q V=Y W=C X=U Y=T Z=I
- “I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.”— Terence, 160 BC, Adelphoe, Act III. Sc. 3, 61. (415) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=J B=Z C=K D=X E=L F=O G=H H=I I=M J=E K=C L=G M=Y N=Q O=T P=R Q=S R=B S=W T=U U=F V=D W=P X=A Y=V Z=N
- “It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity.”— Terence, 161 BC, Phormio, Act II. Sc. 1, 11. (241) (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=I C=E D=S E=U F=Z G=Y H=L I=V J=N K=D L=M M=K N=W O=P P=J Q=R R=A S=H T=O U=C V=X W=F X=B Y=T Z=G