Puzzle 1
Starter clue: V = T
VGRWRFWRQKSKYQVLKDVGRJKESFLLKQVGRJGFWVKDVWZRSFVWYKVYLE.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 10
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: E = A
EWEFZBPGMRFXCESKLRQGMPLSKFQKMMSPJQEWKSBEFBGMJKFKLEVSPC.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: P = O
EJCWMCWJPQRGKECWEPPHPPMQPFKIOVZEKIHAGFW,PFTGFOJPIGWERGI.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: G = A
GQPXKWXAFWGBEMVGYEPHCAYNHGXEPUY,MVGYVGUQPXN,PUYUWAZABCKVY?
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: X = E
PXEJTXCNJWISLBCUXI,CVWRMXRLSXCLRDBEJBXJIRDIYCRXPXEEDVRMXN.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: W = E
YALWQOHHUVHDQOUVLWKVJDRCAWJZG,VJZXWEAWLWHUVHDQOUVLWXOHRWI.
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)
- “There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.”— Robert C. Winthrop, 1879, Letter to Boston Commercial Club in 1879 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=J C=W D=F E=M F=A G=H H=Y I=V J=C K=O L=S M=B N=K O=D P=X Q=N R=E S=P T=G U=Z V=T W=R X=Q Y=I Z=U
- “A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1665, Maximes, 96 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=V B=H C=R D=Q E=A F=N G=I H=K I=X J=B K=E L=F M=S N=Y O=Z P=O Q=L R=U S=T T=P U=J V=C W=M X=G Y=D Z=W
- “This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.”— Izaak Walton, 1653, The Complete Angler, Part I. Chap. 8 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=L B=K C=I D=C E=T F=R G=E H=G I=N J=H K=A L=Z M=D N=W O=Y P=O Q=F R=M S=P T=V U=J V=B W=S X=Q Y=X Z=U
- “Among unequals what society can sort, what harmony, or true delight?”— John Milton, 1667, Paradise Lost, Book VIII. Line 383 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=E B=L C=I D=V E=S F=Q G=A H=C I=Z J=P K=G L=B M=W N=Y O=X P=O Q=M R=F S=K T=J U=R V=H W=U X=N Y=T Z=D
- “We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=B B=F C=A D=O E=L F=Z G=P H=J I=S J=I K=G L=R M=H N=M O=X P=W Q=Y R=T S=U T=V U=C V=N W=D X=E Y=K Z=Q
- “Give out that you have many friends, and believe that you have but few.”— French proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=I B=Z C=R D=Y E=L F=P G=S H=T I=W J=N K=M L=V M=C N=J O=U P=X Q=O R=F S=Q T=K U=H V=A W=E X=B Y=G Z=D