Puzzle 1
Starter clue: Y = E
UWZHYMLMWWMFUIBQUIAZ'WUOY,OZQANYICYMQYETQYANYGMQYAQTY.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 8
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: H = N
DTFEIHTHKCVQQTCCMYTCYHMJQIM,FIKBTFKBIHHIKYJHIMIQKYJH.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: K = T
LKNGHIVDQRVBOLKVGDQRRQZUMQCVMIKNGKLZYLZVKNVMVLHKMOKN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: B = E
HGYXBRBMGTBQHMNLXTOYHGSBYSHUBSDEITLGSBEGLYMGSHMQBMOBO.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: S = T
ZSZFPLSNJNGKSGXSMSMVSGNDLIINPTFZSFNBUSLSMNDLIILPFNPFN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: B = E
QFNASBYYBYAEJB,DKHUBXNEVHAFS,UXVBHEVXMBECQVDFOECCHTXNOL.
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 a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.”— William Shakespeare, 1611, The Winter's Tale, Act IV. Sc. 4 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=T B=P C=W D=C E=S F=D G=Y H=V I=N J=Q K=M L=B M=A N=H O=F P=X Q=R R=K S=J T=U U=I V=Z W=L X=G Y=E Z=O
- “Permanent success lies in local, rather than national action.”— Calvin Coolidge, 1926, State of the Union AddressCipher key: A=X B=H C=S D=P E=M F=R G=K H=N I=A J=O K=T L=Y M=L N=Q O=G P=W Q=C R=Z S=B T=E U=F V=U W=D X=J Y=I Z=V
- “It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.”— Pliny the Elder, 77, Natural History (Naturalis Historia), Book XIV. Sect. 141 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=K B=Q C=V D=C E=X F=L G=A H=S I=B J=D K=T L=I M=R N=H O=U P=J Q=O R=M S=Y T=G U=P V=E W=F X=Z Y=W Z=N
- “A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than mended.”— Spanish proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=Y B=E C=X D=I E=S F=K G=T H=A I=C J=P K=Z L=O M=N N=W O=D P=F Q=M R=G S=H T=L U=V V=J W=Q X=U Y=R Z=B
- “It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense.”— Henry David Thoreau, 1862, WalkingCipher key: A=X B=L C=Q D=C E=Z F=S G=R H=W I=M J=V K=Y L=O M=H N=E O=J P=N Q=B R=P S=T T=D U=F V=A W=K X=U Y=G Z=I
- “Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring.”— John Milton, 1667, Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 750 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=E C=F D=M E=O F=A G=K H=S I=B J=V K=Y L=G M=C N=I O=N P=X Q=H R=J S=W T=P U=T V=U W=Z X=R Y=D Z=Q