Puzzle 1
Starter clue: O = I
PUWSCWTPBIOHGDOTLDYPCWSTYHINOWC,PHGXJSHGWNOEDXOHXYPCPKSOIOKW.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Truth Cryptograms Set 12
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: C = I
EWZEGCKEGOKZBBCEDNHOCFY;UZKECSOCKEGOTQQXCSTECDFDNCEEDTNNTCWK.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 3
Starter clue: C = E
ZDCACJSOCUXEACKVSZDSHDEHCUZIEQLZ,LCJSCOCXC,ZDVHSHDVJKZDCNACCIU.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 4
Starter clue: X = E
QXEQKELTHHTPUESCEQETTRXKSEQXQXXHUPZHHQKFXIZSEBZWBXIZRQZULKWX.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 5
Starter clue: P = E
DMVQWZZLPLTJYPZTPFPG,QVB-BEGMWBRMO,WURJATBVAMULDXPCTJEOWYPGRTUP.
Decoder — write your answer under each cipher letter:
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Puzzle 6
Starter clue: J = O
QKJBSJDQAVVJKV,ZJSXJKV,MDZPMLOAKV,ZJDJXSJDSAMPXEAXKHXEJQOJHKSMVA.
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)
- “A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.”— George Herbert, 1633, The Temple, The Church Porch (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=Q B=Y C=S D=H E=G F=Z G=D H=N I=F J=U K=C L=W M=J N=L O=I P=A Q=P R=B S=R T=M U=V V=X W=E X=T Y=O Z=K
- “Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844, Essays: Second SeriesCipher key: A=D B=M C=I D=O E=T F=N G=H H=B I=K J=Y K=S L=Z M=X N=F O=E P=W Q=P R=V S=C T=A U=J V=Q W=R X=L Y=G Z=U
- “There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.”— Alfred Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam A.H.H., XCVI. Stanza 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=R B=J C=E D=H E=O F=G G=W H=N I=D J=L K=F L=B M=K N=C O=V P=Y Q=U R=P S=I T=X U=S V=A W=Q X=M Y=Z Z=T
- “He that follows truth too near the heels will have dirt kicked in his face.”— English proverb, 1859, Recorded in Walter K. Kelly, Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated (London, 1859)Cipher key: A=Y B=K C=U D=G E=T F=V G=B H=L I=D J=M K=A L=F M=P N=J O=X P=W Q=H R=N S=R T=O U=S V=Z W=C X=E Y=Q Z=I
- “You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.”— William Shakespeare, 1597, The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Sc. 3 (in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed., 1891)Cipher key: A=P B=T C=W D=Y E=H F=V G=R H=Z I=Q J=S K=F L=M M=O N=X O=G P=E Q=C R=D S=K T=I U=N V=U W=A X=J Y=B Z=L
- “From confessors, doctors, and lawyers, do not conceal the truth of your case.”— French proverb, 1857, Recorded with English translation in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (London, 1857)Cipher key: A=E B=M C=J D=N E=H F=G G=X H=U I=B J=O K=R L=W M=A N=Q O=Y P=L Q=F R=K S=C T=P U=V V=S W=Z X=T Y=I Z=D