Puzzle 1
Starter clue: O = E
SNSKRHNSHSREORHJONZRHFOEKWOMOLXOOSXDOWWOJQHREWNLHVEKSJSNXDOKSHSEOLHRKSVOKWQOOSINGHSREOUBXDHVDKSJW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Time Cryptograms Set 31
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 = A
FGMNOTWZNBKM,OKNFGMNOPVKMZZJOXXZJPBIFGMDWKAZBJKWAGF,OZOJMOFGMPWZDOJFMNNBDKDOPNJPBIOKMOAXMWKGWZJXWAGF.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: V = E
RIKVBXKVRGVSMXQBIDVMUIUDVVTBDVRVFIXEVRISSUVVTIKOVEMARVBIARBDVJUXFXQVZVISIAUSUVVTIKXRRAEDMHIQT,IQTRBIUL.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: U = E
UDUJFIXYEVPXVLUBPGIXLUTEVZEAU,UDUYEYEPVBUPXEZV,RGJPTFGAPTUSGYPUIQZXPEGYGATEVIGVPUZUDXPUBXYBSJEPESXZTGOJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: W = E
PXWFPMXKLKIXXWMPMXKLKWTJLIKFPXWUCWOLIMSFPMCWKJUPUWPFLFWMU,BLTTJXJNIDWJKLBUWMCPTXWTULRWPTUCPMKWDB-XWMJPD.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: O = E
XJPOKTLZFORVYOHRXXFOYJHQMKUOWRHYRCOTMFXJPOKKMSXJYO,RHQQOBRFVJHZ,XORPOSOEJHQMKLTTVBFJHVKTHVEOKRHQKTLVJYO.
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)
- “No nation in the tide of time has ever been blessed with so rich and noble an inheritance as we enjoy in the public lands.”— James Buchanan, 1857, Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=Q B=U C=X D=L E=H F=M G=Y H=I I=J J=D K=A L=R M=V N=O O=E P=K Q=W R=T S=N T=Z U=P V=C W=S X=B Y=G Z=F
- “The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in his flight.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1850, The Seaside and the Fireside, The Day is done (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=O C=J D=W E=X F=T G=H H=U I=M J=F K=N L=C M=E N=D O=A P=R Q=V R=P S=Q T=Y U=B V=K W=I X=L Y=Z Z=S
- “Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941, Third Inaugural AddressCipher key: A=U B=T C=X D=H E=C F=V G=W H=N I=O J=P K=M L=Y M=A N=Q O=B P=Z Q=L R=S S=F T=D U=R V=E W=K X=I Y=J Z=G
- “Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1854, WaldenCipher key: A=F B=D C=Q D=V E=I F=Y G=O H=J I=M J=R K=Z L=K M=X N=G O=U P=T Q=P R=W S=C T=H U=E V=S W=B X=A Y=N Z=L
- “A demand so sudden and so serious made the young man hesitate a moment, for ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.”— Louisa May Alcott, 1869, Little WomenCipher key: A=K B=F C=H D=L E=X F=M G=V H=Z I=U J=I K=S L=O M=N N=C O=Y P=A Q=J R=B S=G T=R U=T V=W W=E X=D Y=P Z=Q
- “Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1841, Ballads and Other Poems, A Psalm of Life (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Y B=P C=K D=J E=H F=R G=Q H=N I=Z J=I K=S L=F M=U N=X O=E P=V Q=D R=A S=B T=O U=W V=T W=C X=L Y=M Z=G