Puzzle 1
Starter clue: A = T
APYOYYTLVKAWBAPJPLIPIBVVLVKALTYOHBAZVAZYVAWRHAPYJLOYOA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Time Cryptograms Set 13
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: H = E
QINWEHJPEHVQNGIAFNWJJPQBBARRTNIAGB,BHHUBJIRFHEPQTHRIAFN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: D = H
ICZAXDFRICZAZFS,RMZAFUGRDADCBPPBULRDPCBNDRDAPCBNDALRGFS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: K = O
IPWZKAGKWUDKIGKQUVMSPVRUSPRWZRDQXWQLQURICQXUZKLRDQDPKML.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: L = T
CVVBJVIOPWHKPOVQWLLWZLMYOQYBJVIOPWH,KSKLQWOVLLYUWOKOLKRW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = A
WCWOSMWSUDVFTOJUOVLWED,CWVQLFYGUOMFTED,URMLMWZLYFDSOFSUCL.
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 seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merchant of Venice, Act III. Sc. 2 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=U C=X D=Q E=B F=L G=Z H=P I=C J=W K=G L=I M=K N=Y O=S P=H Q=F R=A S=V T=M U=D V=N W=R X=J Y=E Z=O
- “To have lived through all its sunny hours, seems longevity enough.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=U B=S C=J D=Z E=V F=G G=R H=E I=O J=L K=X L=C M=F N=H O=W P=I Q=T R=N S=K T=Y U=M V=D W=A X=Q Y=P Z=B
- “Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”— William Shakespeare, 1606, Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=U C=O D=H E=B F=A G=D H=J I=C J=V K=X L=S M=I N=G O=Z P=R Q=K R=T S=Y T=Q U=N V=L W=P X=W Y=F Z=M
- “The fox does not do as much mischief in a year as it pays for in an hour.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=X B=L C=P D=N E=W F=J G=D H=B I=T J=Z K=O L=R M=U N=V O=K P=H Q=A R=I S=C T=G U=S V=M W=E X=Y Y=Q Z=F
- “Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it be not taken in time.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=V B=D C=G D=X E=W F=Q G=Z H=L I=U J=C K=I L=T M=H N=P O=N P=S Q=B R=M S=F T=Y U=K V=O W=E X=J Y=A Z=R
- “A MAN that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.”— Francis Bacon, 1625, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and MoralCipher key: A=P B=W C=M D=S E=R F=O G=D H=Q I=J J=G K=C L=E M=H N=X O=N P=Z Q=B R=F S=T T=U U=I V=Y W=A X=K Y=L Z=V