Puzzle 1
Starter clue: W = T
WBXXLUPGNYLRTAA,TLUWBTWNAUPNCCNLTGZQWGTWNG,WQCX,YQAANLXUTKXLUQW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Time Cryptograms Set 18
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: B = E
TXEKJXUBRJXVVJZFBVBWOEXECRZUBSDWJCZZK,WEKCXYBPLFBXECKBRPVJZOA.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: Y = E
QAYWYGBHWYVHQGITPYQRYYTQAYAIDWBILIDWVGLYHTKQAYOYTQDWGYBILQGCY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: S = E
IZSSEIQWHPF,JNMMRJIZSSEYVDIVPYWRISI,VAROZBSWSIZSSEIGRXQVGESYMHS.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: Z = T
GCZDASJYZAOGJOYJPZDGYULB,HDGQDZDAOFUAXFIZGZFUAQLIIZDALPZAOCJJC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: O = E
JSZWZOHXOBXWVJZTRBFJXRFFOAOZPHVVRFW,NSXRFZRBRFWOAOZTXRGOLOPHVV.
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 end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.”— William Shakespeare, 1602, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV. Sc. 5 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=H C=M D=P E=X F=Q G=R H=K I=V J=U K=Y L=N M=Z N=O O=J P=C Q=I R=S S=G T=A U=D V=F W=T X=E Y=W Z=B
- “Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.”— Marcus Aurelius, 170, Meditations, II. 7 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=E C=G D=H E=N F=B G=Z H=Q I=C J=T K=D L=P M=K N=J O=R P=U Q=X R=S S=W T=F U=M V=L W=A X=I Y=V Z=O
- “There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, Essays: First SeriesCipher key: A=H B=S C=M D=U E=P F=Z G=I H=A I=O J=G K=D L=F M=K N=Q O=C P=B Q=T R=W S=J T=N U=X V=L W=R X=V Y=E Z=Y
- “Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie.”— George Herbert, 1633, The Temple, Virtue (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=B B=H C=K D=Y E=T F=G G=C H=I I=S J=F K=Z L=Q M=L N=U O=X P=N Q=P R=O S=E T=V U=J V=A W=R X=M Y=D Z=W
- “In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. 1 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=Y C=N D=H E=X F=U G=I H=W I=L J=O K=B L=A M=V N=Z O=R P=F Q=C R=Q S=P T=J U=D V=G W=K X=M Y=S Z=T
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1762, The Citizen of the World, Letter VIICipher key: A=V B=S C=J D=P E=H F=N G=M H=A I=C J=O K=Z L=W M=K N=B O=E P=F Q=D R=I S=U T=Y U=X V=L W=G X=T Y=Q Z=R