Puzzle 1
Starter clue: F = O
ONFLXXLXSZWDOEJWDQW'PFNR:FNRBSOXERP,FNRWOAXP,FNRAQEEXSP,FNRCFFYP,FNRUOEX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Time Cryptograms Set 22
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: D = E
WSWOODBUMSUAO!GJTPJTBSUFDMBFWXOBUNGUUZDWMNJ'OFDQDBDMWNDOUBOPUACFMWTOD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: H = E
AHNOGXUTUZBHZPFUUJOHFQHNGWJOHAGYUTZPFPOGXY;FL,ZPFUUJOHAGYUTNGWJOHFQHN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: L = E
FHQUG,OLFFLAFBUWLPLAOLVHAL,TLYWHTFBLUZMSAUFSHWZHVBKDUWYSWQ,UWQZBUALFBLD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: C = I
CLUHSQPOTHHWCOVHVDFMFFRMHLVCZF,PORMPUXDCQDAKPCOXCTTAKHXPORXDCQDXCTTOHV.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: L = E
LMLFXIYOWDOGJWPXVJFRCRX,HJIYIYRIUYOBYFLSLSHLFGRWCIYRIUYOBYOGFLSLSHLFLC.
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)
- “I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”— Oliver Goldsmith, 1773, She Stoops to Conquer, Act I (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=M B=F C=B D=H E=N F=O G=P H=C I=U J=G K=Q L=V M=J N=L O=I P=S Q=A R=D S=R T=Z U=W V=X W=T X=E Y=K Z=Y
- “A mass enormous! which in modern days no two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.”— Alexander Pope, 1720, The Iliad of Homer (Pope's translation), Book XX. Line 337 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=N C=L D=E E=J F=D G=W H=P I=K J=H K=B L=X M=R N=T O=S P=C Q=G R=Q S=M T=I U=O V=Z W=A X=Y Y=V Z=F
- “We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=W B=V C=K D=C E=P F=A G=O H=E I=Z J=T K=M L=Y M=J N=S O=H P=N Q=G R=B S=Q T=D U=L V=X W=F X=U Y=R Z=I
- “Today, better than ever before, we know the aspirations of humankind, and share them.”— Warren G. Harding, 1921, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=R B=H C=Q D=M E=X F=T G=Y H=O I=L J=G K=U L=E M=P N=C O=B P=V Q=D R=Z S=I T=W U=A V=F W=N X=J Y=K Z=S
- “If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not.”— William Shakespeare, 1606, Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=X C=I D=H E=V F=E G=J H=O I=Z J=P K=R L=F M=S N=B O=N P=A Q=C R=D S=U T=L U=Y V=T W=K X=W Y=Q Z=M
- “Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.”— Marcus Aurelius, 1862, Meditations (George Long translation, 1862)Cipher key: A=X B=C C=D D=G E=Z F=R G=S H=B I=T J=O K=U L=E M=V N=Q O=I P=L Q=K R=A S=M T=P U=W V=F W=N X=Y Y=H Z=J