Puzzle 1
Starter clue: G = E
JIOJMKYJMGPTYJWNVONAVGJMKLEZGMNWG.VGJOYGUTLTPKDGKJ.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 7
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: I = E
EIDQKIODJDYIRQNMJPQHEIJOQPJI,LIIYYPMZHZVEVQNVOFVIT.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: B = E
FKQBJCFB,FKQBJCFB,CNCZRS,FCOBSXZBPFKJSWCJBEFXEJCFEKYB.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: N = E
IXQTXNJGYIXPTNJXTGYIRNQDYJNBSIPTESTOGQNJIRNTSIATXN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: N = A
NWQKNYDSRBANYPASYKIBANYP,LCQQBNUKNDNYBAZSRJANYEQNYP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: X = I
QTOQUOLCJMVXTEUBUXSEOQXEFXVVXECDQXECFSCMXSXCSEOXVV.
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)
- “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”— Mark Twain, 1897, Following the EquatorCipher key: A=B B=P C=J D=Z E=G F=K G=E H=D I=R J=T K=I L=N M=H N=A O=U P=M Q=F R=Y S=X T=O U=C V=L W=V X=Q Y=S Z=W
- “Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.”— John Gay, 1727, Fables, Part I. The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=X B=Q C=H D=S E=L F=V G=D H=A I=E J=U K=M L=K M=O N=Y O=N P=R Q=T R=C S=Z T=W U=J V=I W=G X=F Y=P Z=B
- “Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe.”— William Shakespeare, 1604, Othello, Act III. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=G B=E C=O D=U E=S F=T G=Q H=M I=J J=N K=A L=X M=V N=W O=B P=C Q=K R=L S=D T=Z U=Y V=P W=H X=I Y=F Z=R
- “An honest man does not make himself a dog for the sake of a bone.”— Danish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=B B=L C=U D=I E=G F=W G=T H=Y I=A J=S K=J L=Z M=X N=E O=R P=D Q=H R=K S=F T=O U=C V=P W=Q X=N Y=M Z=V
- “A clean mouth and honest hand, will take a man through any land.”— German proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=H B=T C=I D=M E=Y F=Z G=F H=X I=S J=G K=E L=W M=J N=A O=P P=D Q=L R=U S=O T=B U=K V=Q W=C X=V Y=N Z=R
- “He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.”— Samuel Butler, 1678, Hudibras, Part III, Canto III. Line 547 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=U B=G C=O D=F E=S F=W G=X H=R I=Z J=M K=D L=C M=P N=B O=T P=Q Q=H R=J S=N T=E U=A V=L W=V X=I Y=K Z=Y