Puzzle 1
Starter clue: X = E
PJXWDXYKQWLNXFNEXWYXTEFUPFUYWPJ,MHPUJXLPJXKYUYWPJKTFLQXGKLVEXVKPMHYLTEKGXWQFLTHDKLCBEWDX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Theodore Roosevelt Cryptograms Set 8
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: A = E
TDIATJKIAAEAFECAFOAPXJJFXJPACKTBZJFTCCYTBSXBZBFJJFPXBSXBJFRACECAPPBAPPNAKFIAJRAEFOAIPFKAGXC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: J = O
JOPMYJMHYEUEISJHYINHHMPJWNZ,WJPUOFFYUUWOHSJTY-TECNDANUROZEDJZSYPDETYWJPZSYOMRONHXNDAJWZSYDEZNJD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: K = A
PLSKNXNF,FPIKSKFXKAZR,OPFRYLSR,IPSKMMURYRDO,TKSUQPSJNDWXRD,RCLKMNOAPIPVVPSOLDNOAKDURCLKMNOAPIZLSURD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: K = A
EXUISMPVBXYYOVOFKUMXP,GKCMUKRMBUMGKPVRKEXF,GKPVXWQGIDXXV,KPVKBKPOGOBBKFTGXFXRRKFTUIOTGKPEXUIVXONMR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: U = E
NIAUXYZUYDITDEUSUISRU,LODEUSUISRU,TIXDEUSUISRUJMRRSUXMBETXIZDEUTWHUITDEUUWXDEMTLXMLUXOMBDIRUXWDUV.
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 American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1901, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Z B=F C=G D=M E=L F=O G=K H=U I=J J=H K=I L=N M=B N=P O=X P=T Q=C R=Y S=V T=S U=W V=D W=A X=E Y=R Z=Q
- “A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1904, Fourth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=E B=N C=L D=G E=P F=O G=V H=U I=R J=T K=F L=J M=Y N=B O=W P=S Q=X R=H S=K T=A U=C V=Z W=Q X=I Y=M Z=D
- “Our people as a whole will profit, for successful home-making is but another name for the upbuilding of the nation.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1901, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=G B=J C=K D=N E=A F=C G=X H=L I=W J=O K=Q L=V M=P N=I O=U P=R Q=Z R=B S=H T=M U=S V=Y W=F X=D Y=E Z=T
- “Our aim is, so far as may be, to secure, for all decent, hard working men, equality of opportunity and equality of burden.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1906, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=Y B=V C=Q D=N E=J F=S G=X H=Z I=F J=K K=A L=U M=L N=I O=T P=O Q=W R=E S=R T=H U=D V=P W=G X=M Y=C Z=B
- “Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and labor, can do much good, and as a necessary corollary they can both do evil.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1902, Second Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=W B=S C=P D=G E=B F=R G=C H=X I=H J=Q K=A L=Z M=I N=V O=E P=N Q=U R=L S=K T=Y U=T V=D W=M X=O Y=F Z=J
- “Government of the people, by the people, for the people will perish from the face of the earth if bribery is tolerated.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 1903, Third Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=V B=S C=X D=T E=H F=Q G=U H=C I=O J=W K=Z L=B M=I N=G O=Y P=K Q=J R=L S=P T=F U=E V=D W=A X=R Y=N Z=M