Puzzle 1
Starter clue: M = E
AIBTILGVN,LKMBMHABM,LAEULIRAOLKVOXNENLKMGEBMEOTLACEWMEBMENAOEYJMRBAZVNVAOHABQKELMZMBLKMGCEGYM.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Thomas Jefferson 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: O = E
KBYDXUOVBWOBQHXQQXWOCXBQJOSKRRXIYRRQJORKIOYBCRKHOVQLXIOUOVLKBCKUKCNYRZKQKGOBHOZXWOKBQOVOAQKBDQXYRR.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = T
MYHNZCYZHSCYHSZSGBFMBUHYCGSNCZYHDFHDFCKSURFUOFIIYGHBSUVBHDSNHVDBGDMBAYCHRFUOYQYUMBIYBHZYMIFCYANHOCYFCRHDBUTZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: F = E
LJFBFXQWZAWXNFBOVQHLJFPQWDJLAVZBLFNNGLWVZYJWAJJGBDVZFPFOVQFTBGZRDTWRFRVTQBLFXBLJQVTDJGZGDFVOQFMVNTLWVZGZRQFOVQHGLWVZ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: O = E
WTMYGNOVGMHKEOOSKVITVNGMIVXWEIVIWKOVTJKEOKGFOYGMZEGWEZOUGPO,TBVIKKOMKGTMYETBUNBMVOFGKKGMHUXCOJGSONTMKEOYIJOKXTJTBVWTBMKVX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: H = E
YEZCFWUQWZH,BYRWSYFQWZHJ,FTBBHZFH,YRARYNCEYQCTR,QLHSTWZOCUUYZJTSTWZOZTJOHZCQP,YZHQLHRBTJQQLZCNCREGLHRUHSQBTJQSZHHQTCRACNCAWYUHRQHZOZCJH.
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)
- “Our duty is, therefore, to act upon things as they are and to make a reasonable provision for whatever they may be.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1806, Sixth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=O B=R C=M D=Q E=A F=X G=Y H=F I=U J=L K=H L=T M=E N=S O=N P=Z Q=W R=P S=J T=D U=C V=I W=K X=G Y=B Z=V
- “In a government bottomed on the will of all the life and liberty of every individual citizen become interesting to all.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1805, Fifth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=S B=N C=D D=G E=K F=P G=Z H=B I=F J=H K=I L=Y M=Q N=U O=E P=X Q=T R=L S=W T=J U=V V=R W=M X=O Y=A Z=C
- “Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1801, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=B B=I C=R D=H E=P F=A G=C H=T I=F J=Q K=M L=Z M=L N=U O=D P=J Q=V R=Y S=O T=G U=N V=W W=X X=K Y=E Z=S
- “These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1801, First Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=C B=S C=Z D=G E=Y F=E G=A H=M I=X J=H K=J L=T M=V N=L O=F P=B Q=R R=D S=Q T=U U=K V=O W=I X=P Y=W Z=N
- “Considering the extraordinary character of the times in which we live, our attention should unremittingly be fixed on the safety of our country.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1808, Eighth Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=K B=U C=B D=Q E=H F=M G=I H=G I=A J=F K=T L=P M=N N=D O=E P=V Q=J R=Z S=X T=O U=L V=R W=C X=Y Y=S Z=W
- “Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”— Thomas Jefferson, 1801, First Annual Message to CongressCipher key: A=D B=M C=I D=J E=G F=C G=W H=E I=Q J=S K=X L=H M=B N=V O=P P=Y Q=T R=N S=F T=O U=L V=Z W=U X=K Y=A Z=R